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When you see the players get the ball in their hand for the first time,
看到球员第一次拿到球的时候，
it's a cross between intrigue and excitement.
你会觉得又好奇又兴奋。
It's great to see them try and bounce the ball and just see it actually bounce away.
看他们试着把球拍起来，结果却弹开了也很有意思。
It can make the best of people look really really silly.
哪怕是最优秀的队员，他这个时候看着也一定是非常蹩脚的。
The number one sport in Australia is Australian rules football.
澳大利亚的头号运动是澳式橄榄球。
It's basically a cross between rugby and soccer.
差不多就是橄榄球和足球的一个混合体。
And the fans go crazy for it.
而粉丝们对这一运动可以说已经着迷到了疯狂的地步。
There's one problem: they don't have enough tall people.
只是，有一个问题：没有那么多的高个子球员。
So what do they do? They come to the states.
那怎么办呢？来美国。
This combines the U.S. AFL combine and we started this four years ago.
这样我们又在这项运动中融入了美国AFL的一些元素，而这一举措我们是从四年前开始的。
Basically in a search for four guys six foot seven and above.
差不多要找4个身高2.01m以上的队员。
And these tall American athletes...they don't really need to know a lot about Australia.
而这些身材高大的美国运动员……他们并不需要对澳大利亚有多少了解。
The home of the kangaroos, I think.
袋鼠的故乡是嘛。
I know a lot of kangaroos.
我知道有很很多袋鼠。
I heard a lot about kangaroos and spiders and snakes.
我听过很多关于澳大利亚的袋鼠啊蜘蛛啊，还有蛇的故事。
In selecting these athletes, we predominantly look for guys that are hungry.
在挑这些运动员时，我们主要找的是那些心中充满渴望的人。
Most of the participants predominantly come from basketball.
大多数报名的都是打篮球出身的。
The concept of basketball, in terms of the athlete being in traffic and having spatial awareness and those sorts of things,
篮球的那些概念，各队相互交易运动员，运动员的空间意识等方面的概念，
is really transferable to our game...
同样也能过渡到我们这种运动里…
Which is good news because less than 2% of college basketball players will make it to the pros.
这一点也算是个好消息，因为只有不到2%的大学生篮球运动员有机会打入职业篮球赛。
The Australian Football League gives them another chance to live out their dreams of being a pro athlete.
澳大利亚橄榄球联盟给了他们再次去实现他们成为职业运动员这一梦想的机会。
Most of the participants are quite shocked when they see the game for the first time.
大多数参与这个运动的人第一次接触的时候都会觉得很震惊。
The question is what do the athletes think of all this?
问题是，那些运动员们对所有这些是怎么看的?
Well, when I got to come and see it, I thought it was fake actually, I thought it was a scam.
嗯，我第一次接触的时候还以为它是假的，是个骗局。
First thing I thought that it was a scam.
我的第一印象就是这是个骗局。
I thought it was a contact in the wrong person, absolutely.
我还以为是他们找错人了。
What is Australian football?
澳式橄榄球是个啥?
Skepticism aside, how do you teach these guys a game they never even heard of before?
撇开上面那些疑惑不谈，这些家伙连听都没听过的运动，你到底是怎么教他们的？
So we combine kicks off in the early pace with a physical testing.
初期我们会学习开球，还会进行一次体能测试。
And then start to build into the skills...
接下来开始培养技能……
the basics of hand balling, the ability to see what they are like with their hands,
用手控球的基本技能，了解自己用手习惯的能力，
then we can start to get into the more competitive stuff where they might crash & bash into each other, which they love that.
接下来我们就可以准备进入更有竞争力的领域了，这个时候他们互相之间可能会发生一些身体摩擦，但他们挺喜欢这种摩擦的。
This is Mason Cox. he played basketball at Oklahoma State.
这位是梅森·考克斯。他曾经是俄克拉荷马州的一名篮球运动员。
Two years ago he was just like one of these guys on the combine.
两年前，他和看台上的这些人并没有什么两样。
Now he's playing professionally in Australia.
现在，他已经在澳大利亚打职业比赛了。
They can be one of the 22 superstars out there on an AFL team.
他们都可能成为AFL的22个超级明星中的一员。
It's a fantastic opportunity for these guys to continue their professional career.
这是他们继续职业生涯的绝佳机会。
