{"id":574163,"date":"2026-08-19T21:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T21:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/574163\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T21:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T21:24:08","slug":"why-team-nzs-karate-coach-is-hitting-the-treadmill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/574163\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Team NZ&#8217;s karate coach is hitting the treadmill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Hamilton man has been selected to coach Team New Zealand at this year&#8217;s Youth World Karate Championships in Poland later this year.Three athletes from Toatakai Karate will represent the country in October. The problem is he&#8217;s got to fund his own way there. So, Barney Gill, is getting creative and will climb the equivalent vertical height of Mount Everest on a treadmill next month to raise money for his trip. He spoke to John Campbell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Hamilton man has been selected to coach Team New Zealand at this year&#8217;s Youth World Karate Championships&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":["post-574163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}