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Big smiles all around as we find ourselves in beautiful Kelowna, BC on day 3 of the relay . Lot’s of updates to share but lets stick to the highlights:

Day 1.

Matt and I land in Grand Forks, BC @ noon only to be welcomed by our friend and relay organizer Scott Jones. Scott’s one of a kind, very encouraging and fun to be around. After being introduced to the relay team it really felt like lots  already knew about 9Lives and had great feedback on the project. The weather was warm that day, just like the welcome.

Day 2.

Oh man was that an early wake up call! Matt and I were out the door at 6:45 am  and onto the bike/hand cycle for what was to be a 200km push to Kelowna. The RH relay team of 30 was scheduled to visit 8 separate communities and speak with the public to “pas it on” . Wearing the medal that honors the 25year old Man in Motion tour, we joined 63 other medal bearers to celebrate human spirit through accomplishment. It was truly electric good energy, the kind that makes anything possible.

Day 3.

A bit sore.. haha. Guess all that exercise we got made for an early night last night but I feel great today after an encouraging chat with the man in motion, Rick Hansen. We are getting prepped for the 2 public speaking engagements lined up for tomorrow. Me and Matt have quite an entertaining routine going . After getting our feet wet with a handful of presentations yesterday, we had a chance to meet with the local community and the response to 9Lives was legendary. Who new all these Wildcats existed?! Carry on my friends .

Who loves pictures! I know I do!

Check out these catsnaps:

Look at these warriors

Rick Hansen addressing the community

Youth in motion

yes its true

Thanks for keeping up to date, more to come so stay curious.

K & M

Matt “MLD” Thola and I, Karim “BawsCat” Ladki are going to need your continued support and positive energy as we embark on this epic journey paved by legends. Our portion of the relay starts in Grand Forks and will end in Oliver, B.C. The flight from Vancouver to Grand Forks departs tomorrow (Friday) morning and although we will both be very focused on the relay there will be updates on progress, success and challenges along the way

Here is a peak at the map!

We started shooting out in the field at 10am on Day 1 and carried on late into the evening due to the various different locations we chose to capture.  Day 2 was spent mostly on the mountain followed by editing which started early in the evening. Finally, Day 3 was straight editing with 3 computers, several pots of coffee and a vision.

We have never filmed anything more than some tours and traveling edits you have seen on this site so we were stoked to find out we made the finals. Stoked! Enjoy the film!

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20120323/wheelchair-bungee-jump120323/

In Spanish:
http://www.cnn.com/video/?%2Fvideo%2Fspanish%2F2012%2F03%2F21%2Fcafe-burke-cibercafe-mar21.cnn#/video/spanish/2012/03/21/cafe-burke-cibercafe-mar21.cnn

That night I had a look at her video on YouTube. At 12am her video counter was at 2,000 views! I thought it was quite a big number as most my 9Lives adventure videos have not received this kind of reaction, so it sat in my brain until the morning.

It was 6:30am when I got up and went to the gym. I was on the treadmill and decided to have a look at that video again… 168,000 views in 6.5 hours… and so it went!

We got on an international scale of news! Have a look at the video that made it happen!