Telling Stories and Changing Track - Tim and Tristan Kenyon Capture The Human Spirit

Today I’m joined by two film makers - Tim and Tristan Kenyon - to talk about their remarkable and emotional documentary, Changing Track. Tim and Tristan are brothers whose lives and careers to date make them unlikely track cycling Paralympic story tellers, but the film is all the better for their lack of cycling knowledge and avoidance of stereotypes of lycra men constantly checking their power output data. Changing Track follows three Paralympic athletes - Korey Boddington, Emily Petricola and Kane Perriss, plus Kane’s tandem pilot Luke Zaccaria, in their pursuit of greatness at the 2024 Paris Games.

I saw the trailer for Changing Track and knew immediately I wanted to chat about it on this show as I know personally how powerful and memorable sport and athletics can be as a platform to tell stories about the human spirit and experience. I’ve been fortunate to participate in sports teams and experience glimpses into environments where elite performers perform, and have some understanding into what it takes to create something meaningful and successful. What Tim and Tristan do with Changing Track is not only a documentary about Korey, Emily and Kane’s extraordinary lives, but highlights themes of resilience, adversity, unity, camaraderie, perseverance and the indomitability of the human psyche once the heart is clear on what it wants.

I also wanted to chat with Tim and Tristan about their craft and how that relates to the work of change makers. For many of us, our daily lives involve efforts to convince, influence, coerce, negotiate, compromise in pursuit of the change we want in the world - all of that requires the ability to communicate clearly and persuasively. Changing Track offered me and I think it will you the ability to re-think or refine how you go about speaking with others and the ways that you tell stories. As a story telling species, this is an essential skill. In this conversation we talk about the film itself, the extraordinary stories of regular people, the art and craft of story, Tim and Tristan’s relationship to hardship and suffering, and how all of us have and will again inevitability deal with our own serious challenges and the need to overcome.

Sport isn’t for everyone, I appreciate that. What Tim and Tristan have created with Changing Track is more than a story of sport and athletic pursuit though, but one of how the human spirit can soar - yours and mine. 

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