History Lesson
here, due to popular request, is how freestyle wheelbarrowing began ...
it all began many many moons ago, sometime around the week before finals. one afternoon me and bryan (whiting) and marcus were all making dirt ramps in his back yard. when we got bored bryan climbed into the wheelbarrow and marcus pushed him off the ramp, freestyle wheelbarrowing! i said. little did i know that it would soon spawn the nationwide craze that it is today. i did a google search the next day and came upon the british wheelbarrow freestyle website. this intriuged me and caused me to look further into it. i dowloaded a short video off their website ( its was the only one that worked ) and thought it was pretty sweet. about a week later me and marcus were at the mission comunity planting day for a boy scout service project and began dancing with the wheelbarrows we were using to move mulch. this dancing soon evolved to spinning and many other things. the old guy shoveling the mulch didnt like it much and let us know very sternly several times, but we thought it was pretty sweet.
our first wheelbarrow was names jolene, we spent close to 20 hours painting and restoring her from the sad condition we found her in. there are pictures of her in the archives. as pretty as she was she was too heavy to do tricks with so we went and purchased the smallest wheelbarrows we could find (true temper 4 cu.ft.) the models we still widely use today. to make a long story short we wheelbarrowed alot throughout the summmer. we performed twice at EFY and a Youth Conference. we have continued to invent new tricks and improve our skills up until now. there are great things yet in store for freestyle wheelbarrowing.
it all began many many moons ago, sometime around the week before finals. one afternoon me and bryan (whiting) and marcus were all making dirt ramps in his back yard. when we got bored bryan climbed into the wheelbarrow and marcus pushed him off the ramp, freestyle wheelbarrowing! i said. little did i know that it would soon spawn the nationwide craze that it is today. i did a google search the next day and came upon the british wheelbarrow freestyle website. this intriuged me and caused me to look further into it. i dowloaded a short video off their website ( its was the only one that worked ) and thought it was pretty sweet. about a week later me and marcus were at the mission comunity planting day for a boy scout service project and began dancing with the wheelbarrows we were using to move mulch. this dancing soon evolved to spinning and many other things. the old guy shoveling the mulch didnt like it much and let us know very sternly several times, but we thought it was pretty sweet.
our first wheelbarrow was names jolene, we spent close to 20 hours painting and restoring her from the sad condition we found her in. there are pictures of her in the archives. as pretty as she was she was too heavy to do tricks with so we went and purchased the smallest wheelbarrows we could find (true temper 4 cu.ft.) the models we still widely use today. to make a long story short we wheelbarrowed alot throughout the summmer. we performed twice at EFY and a Youth Conference. we have continued to invent new tricks and improve our skills up until now. there are great things yet in store for freestyle wheelbarrowing.
posted by David at 3:12 PM
4 Comments:
Gosh...such a great story...
:)
How does one go about getting into this awesome new sport?
Bowman you are so crazy, how do you manage to do stuff like this? I need to see this in person to believe it :p
it began here and you are full of it: http://www.wheelbarrowfreestyle.com/main.html
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