Chad Cheeney, co-founder of Durango Devo

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Payson McElveen

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4.8 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Chad Cheeney is the co-founder of Durango Devo, a non-profit mountain bike program for kids in Durango, Colorado. Since the program began in 2006, Chad has coached thousands of young riders, including Sepp Kuss, Christopher Blevins, Sarah Sturm, and Howard Grotts. But beyond those who have gone on to become world title holding pros, many more have achieved the program’s central objective: becoming life long riders. Chad talks to Payson about why he wanted to start a development program out of...

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0:00.0	My philosophy is give kids the knowledge to go out and do it after they're away from me.
0:05.8	Because sometimes kids don't know how to go and be an explorer.
0:10.7	You know, you're not raised to explore.
0:12.6	And that's when you learn so much.
0:14.1	When you go to other places, you're like, what?
0:15.7	They do this here?
0:16.9	You can do this?
0:18.7	And so I like to show kids that.
0:21.6	So when they're done with me, they're self-sufficient.
0:25.7	It's showtime, everybody.
0:27.9	Showtime!
0:30.5	You've been living in a dream world, Neo.
0:34.1	This is the world as it exists today.
0:39.3	Life moves pretty fast.
0:41.3	You don't stop and look around once in a while.
0:43.3	You could miss it.
0:45.3	Listen, we talk about practice.
0:49.3	Repeat on the dude's room.
0:51.3	Donnie, you're out of your element.
0:53.3	I see, you think out of your element.
0:56.7	I see, you think this has nothing to do with you.
1:00.7	Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.
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