Talk about ships crossing in the night… and in broad daylight no less! The deadline for submissions to Panasonic Corporation’s Share the Air video contest was January 16 (yesterday), and mine is on its way. A week ago I went out to the local skate park in Chandler, where I had met Kevin Cornwell, a veteran skateboarder for 23 years, who was out with his adorable daughter, a darling, whose name I did not get.
Of the guys — skateboarding is most definitely a guy thing — who were out that day, Kevin showed much greater skill and grace on the board. Most of the younger skaters, enamored with jumps and skids along the rails, were still paying for the knowledge with the lumps their bodies had to endure when they fell.
I approached Kevin and informed him of my intention, and asked if he’d allow me to get some footage of him. He readily agreed. The footage that I shot of him was nice. It was of an “older” skateboarder, now introducing his daughter to the sport. Great bonding footage, but not necessarily appropriate for a theme called, “Share the Air”.
However, I made that collection of footage into a wonderful short video, so wonderful (in my opinion), that the actual topic that I intended this post to be on, will have to wait.
Here’s Kevin’s video, titled, “Zen and the Art of Skateboarding”.
[googlevideo=http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-8061151366212229148&hl=en]
More soon…
Please send me the video (Zen and the Art of Skateboarding), it is no longer available online.
Thanks,
Kevin Cornwell
(Daughter is Sydney Brooke)
Chandlercorn@gmail.com
I’ll have to look for that one. 🙂
Man, I have a great set of nephews. Great job Kev and my great neice Syd. Too bad your Ankle Rick wasn’t too old to learn! LOL
Great work, Adam and thanks for videoing my nephew and great neice.
Great piece of work, it reminds me of why I idolize my big brother. The way he mentors as he did me when we grew up, shows that when you have a true love of something (skating) you want to share and teach it to the ones you love most.
Thanks for the inspirational video Adam!!
Kevins’ little bro,
Terry
Sydney is the little adorable daughter…She still has a love for skateboarding,and now I have a son to follow in her footsteps.
Carol, that dog KNOWS what he’s doing (I’m assuming it’s a “he”).
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nNce piece Adam……..I was reminded of this clip that I use in my training workshop when discussing focus, balance and…”If I can do it then at least YOU can give it a go”….
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8762816342722081405&q=skateboard+dog
Watch how he leans to avoid hitting the curb and how when he is busy looking at his owner…he nearly comes off……