Football training tonight means I can test these bad boys out #makeitcount #nikefootball #ctr360 #Nigeria #planetdarkz #football
Lounging before the First football training session of the year. #balotellilifestyle #makeitcount #bridgethegap cc @jaybkrw
Check me and my running fam out on the @Nike (UK) website. We will #MakeItCount 2013! #BalotelliLifestyle #RDCYoungers
Nike Rebel Run Gear! Lets get it! #balotellilifestyle #clique #rdcyoungers #bridgerunners #builtonnyc #makeitcount #BLXPD #planetdarkz (at Ace Hotel)
My Rule book..
I feel like my life’s been a game of checkers. I kept losing pieces until I reached the other side and got crowned.
I think what I’ve constantly learnt is that; if you treat life or any situation it throws at you like a game you love, you can’t lose. You can only learn how not to win.
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work” - Thomas A. Edison
I’ve ventured into another game and I guess I’m playing well. The game’s in my hands now and I have Kick-Off. Let’s see how it goes.
Darkz
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This is what looking for greatness looks like in a Leake Street drag race..
Darkz
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This journey, unlike any other journey started off with a story.
I told a story
I told a story to Charlie Dark after 3 weeks of short attention spans and no interaction.
Then came a CD with a track that had an insight into how deep the story was.
Let’s take it back, before the Job, the clothes, the emails and shoe boxes.
I met Charlie,
I met Charlie at Hanley Crouch a youth centre that I no longer attended but received a call to attend for a spoken word workshop.
A spoken word workshop,
As an MC words are our greatest tool and to understand further the power given to mankind in the form of words I attended the workshop.
My interest grew as the weeks went by, in time I started to implement what I learnt in my own work. I became fond of the sessions and out of no where grew a liking towards Charlie Dark.
On the way home,
On the way home Charlie spoke to me about Run Dem Crew and the “Youngers” project. He explained, what it was about and from then on I was sold. I couldn’t wait to start, I consistently bothered Abraham at Hanley crouch to put my name forward to Charlie as a candidate younger for the project.
Then It Happened,
Charlie invited me down and I was unofficially a Run Dem Crew younger 2 weeks before the project even kicked off. Charlie then introduced me as the first younger in the building and the round of applause was overwhelming.
2 weeks later,
2 weeks later I met a bunch of people who were to be the set of “RDCYoungers” it was weird at first I felt comfortable though because I knew a few of them from before the project. I also, got to officially meet our peer mentors and mentors for the project.
As the weeks went on, people fell off and some people came on strong and that was it we had the set bunch of youngers.
From Buying a pair of Air Force 1’s to the UK HQ Offices,
The first thing charlie did that amazed me was that we had a creative session in Nike’s UK Head quarter offices. It was weird for me at first but the vibe in that building was amazing we did some team building exercises and then had to present ideas for future footwear to the officials which was an experience I won’t forget.
From there on out it was running and emails,
Which was fun, felt like being an unofficial athlete was a business from there I felt like I had a job. So I planned to deliver with anything I did. Emails came in and were replied to but the hour, I asked questions. I was available.
By then I discovered the saying “Help me, Help you” wasn’t just a few words put together it was real.
Furthermore,
I worked with the other youngers to embark on what could possibly have been the best journey of my life and it was. We did everything I loved from filming short films to making music to running to just hanging out. The project became the life.
Fast forward the creative tasks and weekly running, I ran the british 10K in 48 minutes.
Now I work at the Nike Fuel station, which is Nike’s first site dedicated to just experiencing the new digital sports technology.
Life is good and its thanks to the fact I was and am a Run Dem Crew Younger.
Darkz
#BridgeTheGap #GameOnWorld #MakeItCount #Nike+ #NikeFuel #Rundemcrew #LDNCalling #RDCYoungers #PlanetDarkz
Morning ^_^
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