Here's a report on the day written by Brother Ren with some photos from me . . .
Had a cool day today.....Mon. 11/12/2007.
Richy and I were asked to talk to a big group of
"at risk kids" who were bussed in from Los Angeles
to the Newport Beach Sports Museum.
The Museum has a lot of rad sports memorabilia from
the Lakers, the Dodgers, the Los Angeles Kings, etc.
Maria took pictures and also brought a box of Concrete Wave
Buyers Guides to be handed out to the children, to introduce kids
to various kinds of skateboards -she also brought lot's of
skateboard stickers provided by
SK8KINGS.COM & KHIRO SKATEBOARD PRODUCTS.
We screened an OFF THE RAILS TV video of
*Richy demonstrating & explaining 360 spinning -
*and the Channel 9 TV Sports Central segment of the
feature story on the Flying Carrasco Brothers.
All this on a 10 foot viewing screen was pretty cool.
The kids were quiet and patient when the video started -
and they LOUDLY CHEERED when they saw Richy doing all those
variations of SPINNING 360'S !
When the children saw the Carrasco Brothers slaloming -
in the 'Sports Central' video - you could hear
lot's of "ooooo's" & "ahhhhh's" from the young crowd !
Afterwards, we did a little History Lesson on Skateboarding -
( -I had my steel-wheeled 2x4 and Clay Wheel wood board
from the era when I started skateboarding -
-and Richy showed his modern 360 KING freestyle board and
also his High-Tech Slalom racing board. )
- we then we finished up with question & answer time.
We did give them an extra treat though !
Richy demonstrsated by doing some 360'S right there
( -on a basketball court nearby )
for all the children to see.
I know these children will never forget the great time
they had today - learning, and enjoying
World Class Skateboarding right in front of them !
.....-Rene Carrasco - FOREVER SKATEBOARDING.
-It was real trippy going home today...'deja vu' maybe....
it felt just like THE OLD DAYS - 30 YEARS AGO - - -
when Richy, David and I were performing all those
PEPSI COLA SKATEBOARD TEAM DEMONSTRATIONS !
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