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This past Friday morning, competitive Vancouver Longboarder, Glenna Evans tragically died while riding.  It was one day prior to her 28th birthday.  The tight-knit local longboarding community is still reeling from this loss.

  Note: Originally published here in 2010, this is an interesting blog. 

   I want to make clear that I am not a child psychiatrist, counselor, pediatrician, not even a team coach.  I am simply the mother of two grown sons, now the grandmother of three granddaughters, soon-to-be the grandmother of twin grandsons.

Longboarding is one of the fastest growing sports, likely the fastest growing fast sport.  This is my son, Wolf's third season of racing.  Try as I might to describe what they actually do on a race course, my descriptions often fall short.  So i thought I would like some footage here  to show what was like two weekends ago at Britannia Beach's Gold Rush Challenge. 

Wolf took third spot in the junior division behind Washington State's, Spencer Smith.  

May 14th, 2010 was marked on my Blackberry for weeks, and on the paper calendar for longer than that.  That was the day, 8am French time when we could finally register Wolf for Graveyard Call, the Biggest downhill event in France.  There are only 80 spots for down hill racers at this event as there are also downhill in-line skaters and street-luge racers.  Twenty spots had already been taken by priority riders, that being riders who have international ranking.  This meant that Wolf was competing for the remaining sixty spots.

I recently had a chance to interview the mother of NBA star, Shaquille O'Neal, Lucille, whose inspirational book, Walk Like You Have Somewhere to Go (Thomas Nelson 2010), has just been published.

Before I get to the interview, I want to say I loved Lucille's book! It is one of those books you just cannot put down. I'll be the first to admit I do not follow professional basketball enough to know much about her son, Shaquille "Shaq" O'Neal, other than knowing that he is a future Hall of Famer.