Selby comes from Guangzhou in the southern part of China.
He’s only been in Australia for just over two months.
As an only child he misses his parents in China a lot and often chats to them on Skype.
In 2009 he graduated with a Bachelor degree from the South China Agricultural University.
I got the Bachelors degree in the discipline of animal science in China and now I’m studying
Agriculture Business at the University of Adelaide.
I study in the Waite campus and it’s a beautiful place.
Yeah, what’s your major?
Agribusiness.
Australia as a place is an enthusiastic place and I think the agriculture here that so much
advanced than in China so I prefer to come here.
So here is the place I live and this is the room and actually my bedroom right.
I didn’t know anybody before I come to Australia.
Lots of Chinese friends I have made since I come to Australia.
Yeah and a little bit local students.
I live in Toorak Gardens, one of the most beautiful areas, because you know,
in China I never see such a beautiful areas as so many plants and grass and something
like that.
My favourite hobby is snooker.
I have a Chinese name called Lu Jianyong but in Australia people usually tend to call me
Selby
just because Selby is one of the most famous snooker players in Britain and I love playing
snooker.
That’s why I chose the name, Selby, as my nickname.
Today I’m going to learn about how to operate a radio controlled cars.
This is a nice place and the weather is good and nice.
I’m sure I will have a good day here.
Well, these are your electric cars.
They’ll do about eighty kilometres an hour.
Eighty kilometres an hour.
Yeah, in a straight line.
Pretty fast.
Yeah, it is.
It’s very fast.
And then you move over to something like your pull start car ...
Uh huh.
Which is a nitro powered engine.
What does the nitro actually mean?
The nitro is part of the fuel content so it gives more bang for your buck so ...
Aah.
So this powerful then.
Yes.
And then you move up this one which is like the Formula One of radio control.
Okay.
Can you just tell me which one is the fastest?
The fastest?
This one here.
This will do about 120 kilometres an hour.
It is surprising that he told me that most of the cars are made in China and I never
seen such radio-controlled car actually in China.
But, I mean, it’s a really good hobby
So which car will I be operating today?
You’ll be operating this one.
And I’ll have a play with this one.
You playing with the Formula One?
Yeah.
So this one goes on there.
For you, yep.
And this one for me.
Yeah, that one’s for you.
Handsome car.
One of the first things you have to do, we have to fill it full of fuel.
Until it’s full.
Okay.
It only lasts about five minutes.
Oh.
So this is the steering.
Yep.
And this is okay, left,
Yep.
Right,
Yep.
Alright.
And this is the ..?
Accelerator.
The accelerator.
The brake.
Yep.
Alright.
It is a little bit easier than I imagined and I have a little bit of confidence about
I can it well.
Oh, you’ll do well.
So, just put it in.
Yep, and try to clip it on.
That’s it.
Small little pulls on there.
Yes.
Okay.
We head up top?
Yep.
And race the cars.
You’ll need a hat up there.
Okay.
The fun begins.
It’s gonna be fun.
You’ll get lots of laughs.
So you just squeeze it on.
Turn gently.
Really fast and I saw there is it sort of drifting?
No, no.
No.
Your turn.
Ah, okay.
One time.
When the car takes off, when it starts to take off, you don’t keep the throttle down.
Okay.
One more time.
Yeah, no
You’ll have lots more times out.
So ...
The only thing is ...
yeah, take your throttle off, take your throttle off, take your throttle off.
You’ll get the hang of it.
Turn left.
Turn left, left, left, left, left, left.
It’s not easy to control when you ...
No.
Don’t push it too hard.
It’s hand eye coordination.
Yep.
That’s good.
Back off.
Yeah, now ... uh oh.
Very, very complicated.
Just give this some more chances.
I think I can handle it like this.
Oooooh!
Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, it’s still doing well,
well, ahh.
Slow down, slow down, slow down.
They don’t like sudden stops.
No.
What we might do, we’ll take the cover off and we’ll check that everything’s alright
and see that nothing’s broken.
Yep.
Well, I reckon that we need to change the front shock absorbers around.
I’m changing the suspension now that will make the car a little bit faster, is it?
Yeah, handle a bit better.
See we haven’t actually broken anything today.
We can put the body back on and you can see what the difference is.
This not easy to master all the things in such a short time.
But he’s a very good teacher.
You’re looking a lot better out there on the track.
Yes.
And you haven’t hit anything for a while.
Now you can try and catch him and pass him.
Wahey!
You did it.
Woohoo.
Go!
Yehey.
You think you enjoyed the day?
Yes, I enjoyed it very much.
It’s the first experience with me for trying a car.
Well, you’ve done well.
Got a little gift for you today.
Ah hah.
For doing such a good job.
They thought I’m really good at driving and they asked me to become one of the members
of their club
and they gave me a t-shirt just to presenting that I’m one of the members of their clubs.
Hip Hip!
Hooray!
Hip Hip!
Hooray!
Woo hoo.
Some of the techniques that I used today will help me a lot when I really need to drive
a real car.
I’ll go on practice with my techniques.
I really hope that one day you can see me on the television showing that I’m one of
the winners of the radio controlled cars in China.
Looks like a pretty good driver on the small track at least.
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