4.4 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2019
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Sabre Norris was just nine years old when she landed a skateboard trick no other Australian girl had ever done — the 540. She's not just a fierce skateboarder though — Sabre is also a brilliant surfer. She's refusing to let ill health stand in her way of being the best in the world — so keep your eye out for her in the skateboarding at the 2020 Olympics!
Narrated by actor Claudia Karvan.
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0:00.0 | This is the story of the girl who shreds waves and |
0:07.0 | girl power. |
0:11.0 | This is the story of the girl who shreds waves and skate parks, Saber Knorris, read by actor Claudia Carver. Saber stared down the curved cliff face beneath her feet. |
0:28.0 | Her eyes followed the path along the flat and up the concave wall on the other side. |
0:33.0 | When she stood at the bottom, the half pipe towered over her teeny tiny body |
0:38.0 | like an enormous wave about to crash on her head. |
0:41.0 | But Sabre wasn't scared. She'd sawed down that ramp hundreds, maybe thousands of times. And as she stood back at the top, skateboard by her side, she was ready to do it again. |
0:53.0 | Saber was determined to master one of the trickiest maneuvers in the skating world, |
1:00.0 | the 540. She had to plummet, glide, and rocket into the sky, spinning her board a full circle |
1:08.6 | and half, midair, before landing on all four wheels and rolling back to the center without falling over. |
1:17.2 | Hectic. If she did it, she'd be the first girl in Australia and only the third in the world to pull it off. |
1:26.1 | No pressure. |
1:28.1 | Sabre knew it was possible because she'd studied a clip of American pro skater, Lindsay Adams Hawkins doing it. |
1:37.0 | There was just one catch. Lynn Z was an adult and Sabre was only nine. This would be her 75th try that day. Come on |
1:49.1 | Sabe! Sabre took a deep breath and launched off the edge. |
1:54.0 | Whoosh! |
1:56.0 | The wind rushed past her pink helmet |
1:59.0 | as she sprung up the curl and hurled herself into the air. |
2:03.0 | She spun her board in a full circle. |
2:06.0 | Keep spinning, she told herself, |
2:09.0 | almost there. |
2:11.0 | She turned another 180. She did it. A 540 degree spin. But the pesky |
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