By Donna Kisogloo
Every so often in one’s life something happens that makes you feel warm and fuzzy from tip to toe. It’s the type of thing where you have no hand in it’s orchestration. Not even the planting of a seed. It randomly happened. This particular random was this short story…
It’s almost a mass confirmation that your life’s path, with all it’s difficulties, is so perfectly aligned.
To give you some background to this video – in November last year I was contacted by Ginkgo Agency. An intern was tasked with finding stories about extreme sports. That intern found me. I spent an afternoon with Gary Van Wyk shooting this story. There was a script that we followed for sound, video and stills. Not rehearsed but definitely scripted. I think it was more for editing purposes. Ginkgo is very smart in that way.
A few weeks later I was reading the ‘Who’s Behind OddWheel‘ page. I realised the video echoed this page. As true as the page is the info is dated and I think a few additions need to be added. Additions like my mad mountain skills which became my obsessive focus the 2 years to follow me writing that page. I’m still the only female mountain rider in SA – at my level and with my experience. During my mountain period I started getting more and more into slacklining. Although the re-introduction was not really the slacklining but the highlining aspect of slacklining.
Thank you needs to be given to the intern who trawled the internet looking for stories and with enough digging came across OddWheel Unicycles. An extension of me.
