User:KC Corning

Casey J. Corning (aka: KC Corning) is a Professional Scooter Rider from Portland, Oregon. KC has been riding scooters since the year 2000 and has been considered a Professional Athlete since the age of fifteen. KC was once on Team Razor USA for almost eight years, until he started his own company - TSI: Trick Scooters International. He was born on April 28th, 1987 in Portland, OR. He has two older brothers and he's an uncle. KC has been involved in the sport of Freestyle Scooter Riding since it's inception back in the year 2000, when the "Razor Craze" first hit the market in the US. He got his first 'Kick Scooter' at the age of twelve. His inspiration to start performing tricks came from seeing a picture of a kid jumping off a curb on the box of his Huffy Micro Kick Scooter. He decided to change his name to KC when he transferred schools in 2000. The main reason for changing the spelling of his name, came from him claiming to "try to fit in", while attending a new school. After his second year of riding, he got a spot on Team Razor USA, when he was only fifteen. Right away, Razor flew him out to Tokyo, Japan for the 2002 Tokyo International bicycle show. In 2003, KC decided to leave Team Razor to pursue a career as a Professional Freestyle Go-Ped rider for 'Team Go-Ped'. A Go-Ped was a small, stand-up, gas powered motorized scooter that was a little bigger then a Razor. However, after his new sponsorship fell through, he was known as being "un-sponsored" for almost two years. Then, in April of 2005, KC won 1st Place at the First Professional Scooter Contest in the US, at Thrill-Zone skate park in Tacoma, WA. He was then picked back up on Team Razor later that spring in 2005. KC then graduated high school and got offered a job working for www.PartsForScooters.com, which was located in St. Petersburg, FL. He worked there for nine months. While working for Parts-For-Scooters, he got the chance to start his first company selling Razor Pro Models under the name: Trick-Kick-Scooters (www.trickkickscooters.com). This was the precursor to TSI. In the spring of 2006, he moved back to Portland, OR and took a Business-101 course at Portland Community College in the fall term of 2006. In 2007, KC traveled again, with Team Razor USA, but this time to Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. He was going to compete at the "Soul Planet X-games at the St. Kilda Festival just outside of Melbourne. But then, after riding on the ramps, they started to fall apart and they had to cancel the contest for safety reasons. They ended up, dividing up the winnings to each rider equally. KC now has his own Signature Pro Scooter Deck called the "KC Corning Signature Sledge" which is available for sale on TSI's website: TSIscooters.com