pulled

me aside and said, Mia, if you want to go onto that eight-meter hill, you need to start jumping now.

And He was awesome.

I used to meet up with him at the local track near his place and he'd just help me out for a few hours every Sunday morning and tell me to jump and I'd sit there for two hours stressing over a jump and be in almost tears until I'd just do it.

And I think a lot of that came down to growing up, I didn't get to a track very often.

So I was at a track maybe twice every month.

Just with mum and dad working, they couldn't get me to a gate night, so it'd be every second weekend I'd be able to get to a track.

What's, I mean, you know, advice for young girls that are in the sport or coming into the sport? What is the number one piece of advice you give to young girls who are moving up from, you know, from say the junior classes into the more competitive age classes? As a rider plus as a coach, you can go from both.