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Mira Costa GoPro sports

Have you ever experienced the freeze-frame of breathless suspension as you fly inches above a pole vault bar 12 feet in the air? How about the grit of lacrosse, fending off the ever-ominous defender’s stick whipping relentlessly against your pads in order to get a shot on goal? Or the concentration of catching a football,…
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Jimmy Shaw

May 17, 2015

Have you ever experienced the freeze-frame of breathless suspension as you fly inches above a pole vault bar 12 feet in the air? How about the grit of lacrosse, fending off the ever-ominous defender’s stick whipping relentlessly against your pads in order to get a shot on goal? Or the concentration of catching a football, following the ball into your hands, and ignoring the chaos around you?

Over the past couple of weeks, we have been strapping a GoPro onto some of Costa’s most renowned athletes to give you, the viewer, the first-person perspective of how these sports are really played. Watching from the sidelines is one thing, but to actually experience it yourself is a whole new world.

These are sports through the eyes of the athletes; the truest perspective of a sport one can get.

 

– Jimmy Shaw and Diego Marcucci

 

Scholar-athlete Cody Going: off to Division 1

Scholar-athlete Cody Going: off to Division 1

Cody Going has been in Mission Viejo high school’s football program, a team ranked number four in California by MaxPreps, for five long years. From his time in eighth grade to now he’s been able to see the athletes at Mission Viejo High grow from teammates to a...