Hy is getroud op 20, het so pas weer 'n goue medalje op die Olimpiese Winterspele gewen en word deur sy vriende 'n "undude" genoem. Hy is vir hulle nie koel genoeg nie....
"Jou lewe is verby omdat jy getroud is", vertel hulle aan hom.
https://twitter.com/mrDavidWise
Hy het sy vrou by die kerk ontmoet, en hy roem hom daarop dat hy 'n familieman is.
Hier is 'n gedeelte van die berig wat oor hom in die NYT verskyn het. Lekker verhaal om vir kinders te vertel.
RENO,
Nev. — The light from the Monster Energy refrigerator, squatting on the floor
below the framed wedding photographs and X Games gold medals, cast a steady
glow in the living room. The Smith Optics sunglasses come in handy in the
high-desert autumn sun, just as they will in the snow-blinding mountains of
winter. Pairs of 4Frnt skis stood in various corners of the house, awaiting
deployment.
Among
David Wise’s sponsor-gifted goodies, however, none might prove as useful as
Pampers. The promised supply from Procter & Gamble was expected anytime.
Until then, Wise and his wife, Alexandra, were stuck buying diapers by the
boxful at Costco for their 2-year-old daughter, Nayeli, a chatterbox in
pigtails.
“No,
they didn’t come today,” Alexandra said when Wise arrived home one recent
afternoon.
Freestyle
skiing in the halfpipe will make its Olympic debut in Sochi, Russia, in
February, and Wise is a gold-medal favorite, a two-planked version of the
snowboarder Shaun White. Mainstream audiences await, but Wise — married at 20,
now a family man raising a toddler at 23 — has long stood out for more than his
acrobatic accomplishments.
Many
snowboard and freestyle contestants seem molded from the same assembly line,
models of branded dishevelment marketed as easygoing and athletic slackers,
usually longhaired and clothed in flannel, like guitarists from a jam band
enjoying a day in the snow.
In
the niche of the action-sports world that he now dominates, Wise is
counterculture to the counterculture. He is the undude.
“There’s
an image they want,” Wise said. “And I didn’t fit that for a long time. Even
after I won the X Games the first time, they said: ‘We don’t know what to do
with this guy. He’s different.’ ”
“They
called him vanilla,” Alexandra said, sitting close to him on the couch.
Wise
said: “My rebuttal to that is: Why do you want something that has been done
before? It’s the people who are different who end up shaping the culture.”
He
is not a nerd, and he is not an outsider. There is nothing like winning X Games
gold the past two years to build respect and credibility. He can hang with the
dudes, because he is nice and funny and smart and young. For a long time, he
had long hair, too. He played high school football and baseball until skiing
commandeered his schedule. He plays on two softball teams in the summer. He
rides mountain bikes and a motorcycle. He drives fast — so fast that he was
pulled over, a reporter in the front seat, on the way to lunch at his favorite
Mexican dive after an hourlong session with a physical therapist to work on his
neck, which he hurt last summer while doing flips into water off a rope swing.
No.
Not a nerd.
But
Wise is different, surprisingly grounded for someone who makes a living flying
through the air. He hunts, less for the thrill of the capture (he brought home
a bull elk this year) than for the chance to be alone with his thoughts. He is
a voracious reader (his favorite author is C. S. Lewis) and an occasional
writer of poetry. During his travels, near and far, he collects heart-shaped
rocks for Alexandra and places them amid a collection on the brick windowsill
outside their front door. (“Now I’ve got the curse of spotting them,” he said.)
Like Alexandra, he is a youth pastor. Writing and missionary work are potential
future occupations.
“There’s
a lot more to life than skiing,” Wise said. “We’re just flipping and skiing in
the halfpipe. It’s not an eternally lasting thing.”
David
and Alexandra, whom he calls Lexi, were two grades apart and grew up on
opposite sides of Reno, which a downtown arch amid the casinos has long
proclaimed “The Biggest Little City in the World.”
They
met during one flirtatious summer at church camp. Romance was interrupted for
nearly three years by distance and life, including Wise’s burgeoning ski
career. They reconnected at church, a chance remeeting, then through a deep
Facebook chat.
Wise
was a couple of weeks from heading to Colorado for the start of the competition
season, which will culminate in Sochi. Alexandra and Nayeli will be with him
most of the way.
“People
look at me and say: ‘Man, you’re married and have a kid? Your life is
over,’ ” Wise said. “And I think, My life is just beginning.”
He
scooped his daughter into his arms and carried her upstairs for bed. He put her
in pajamas and a fresh diaper, hoping the Pampers would arrive soon.
Hier is die volle berig:
