Inline skating needs more visibility and Mojmir Kovač is inviting everyone to participate in an inline project that skates the masses. Mojmir's plan is to encourage skaters in many cities, countries and continents to all skate at the same time, set a world record for group skating and promote inline skating sports worldwide in one gigantic roll.
His idea is very simple:
- The 31th of May would become the World Inline Skating Day (WISD).
- Connect the participating cities, countries and continents via the internet.
- Provide big screen broadcasts of events, interviews and activities in each location.
- Plan to have skating start at the same time worldwide with each location organizing its own activities and entertainment.
- Demonstrations of basic skills, various disciplines, safety, games, a marathon and street skating could be included.
- Videos can be loaded into Youtube.com and made into a high quality promotional CD.
- The number of participants worldwide would be sent to the Guinness Book of World Records.
Mojmir figures that the final production will depend on the ingenuity and budget of each organizer - but whether the final video is made from high budget footage or cell phone videos, this could make news media, film festival and sports promotion history. I can push Southeastern Michigan in the USA. And there are others like skating instructor Franc Pirc-Frenk, Arthur Lee from Inline figure.com and Joe Kaplenk from U.S Inline Figure Skating who think the idea is great and want to help. How do we sign up?
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Dear Carlesa,
First of all, thanks for supporting our idea and publishing it to your blog. Things can be done only with action! And we will repeat this inline skating action in the upcoming year 2010. This year we had 781 people skating with us and this is the highest number in Slovenia untill now. This number could be higher if the weather was nicer, since it was raining in the whole country (but percentually speaking, this number for Slovenia is like seeing 100.000 people skating in the US, so it’s not that bad after all). The event was nicely covered by the media, since we were advertising a new world record in inline skating… They couldn’t resist the idea. So this is what we are going to repeat this year.
Together we could really make a world record! If the US gets 2000 people to skate, Slovenia gets 1000 and we find another 5000 around the world, this could be quite a number, don’t you think? If we act together, I’m sure we could organize this worldwide event, about which media will love to write and in this way will promote inline skating and a healthy lifestyle.
What do you have to do? Easy! Everybody that would like to participate or organize a similar event on the same day, should write me an email at mojmir_kovac@yahoo.it and we will plan the event together, achieve the world record in inline skating, enter the Guinnes world record book and start building a new wall, named the »World day of inline skating«. Are you with me?
Greetings from Slovenia! And see, our country is really special as it has LOVE in it