Exercise 3a, page 89.0:01
On 22 January 2016, in 2007, Dave Cornthwaite from Wales became the first person to skateboard across Australia.0:29
He set a new world record by skating a total of 5,823 kilometers.0:40
Jack Smith, the previous champ, had skated a total of 4830km across the US in 2003.0:48
Dave's journey started in Perth and ended in Brisbane, travelling on average 60 kilometres per day.1:00
It took him five months, 13 pairs of shoes and over a dozen tubes of sunscreen.1:08
He went through great physical pain and he got extremely sore feet.1:15
If Dave hadn't believed in making his dreams come true, he none of this would have happened.1:21
Dave quit his job two weeks after he had bought a skateboard and decided to go on a journey.1:28
He wanted this journey to be about something more than him.1:34
So he created Bored Free, an association that would raise money for charities.1:38
If people follow my journey and make donations, then I'm doing a lot of people a lot of good, said Dave.1:44
This journey had plenty of challenges.1:52
He travelled across the Australian desert, where temperatures reached 48 degrees Celsius in the day and zero degrees at night.1:56
He had a serious accident in Adelaide when he jumped on a piece of metal that cut through his heel.2:06
He also had a nasty fall down a hill where he banged his head hard on the pavement and and twisted his ankle.2:13
Dave helped to raise more than 50,000 pounds, €74,000 for children's charities, wrote a book and motivated others to follow in his footsteps.2:22
I wish we had more people like him leading the way.2:35
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