Have You Seen This? 8-year-old Utahn wakes up early to shred

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PROVO — Not all adults have the discipline to wake up early every morning to make time for exercise, studying or to pursue a passion. Often, our beds are just too warm and the prospect of five more minutes asleep is enough to convince us we really don’t need to burn those calories.

One 8-year-old Utahn is about to put all of our morning routines to shame.

Pierce Tews is a Denver native who is currently living in Provo. Tews saw Max Begay at the skate park and thought to himself, “(Max) was better than a lot of the older guys there.”

Since Tews’ business Unmap Co. features other awesome companies and people, he said he knew he had to do a video about Max.

Max — whom Tews learned is half-Navajo while making the video— is a Utah native who loves skateboarding and wakes up at 7 a.m. every day so he can get a session in before school.

“My daily routine is I wake up at 7 o’clock to go skateboarding, and I sometimes don’t want to,” Max said in the video. “When I go to the skate park and I start doing kickflips and then I start having fun and then I’m glad I did.”

Max started skating when he was 5 years old, Tews said. His favorite tricks are kickflips and 50-50 grinds.

Max’s hardest trick he’s ever done was a pressure flip, he said in the video.

“I tried for a few weeks and it hit my shins a bunch of times when I tried.”

In addition to being a killer young athlete, Tews said Max impressed him for other reasons.

“Max is a great kid with an awesome sense of humor,” Tews said. “He is very humble and gracious.”

Include the fact that “he literally wakes up and skates before school every single day,” and you have one awesome Utahn.

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