Adriana Diaz laces up to take on childhood dream of figure skating

Adriana Diaz hits the crystal

"Never Too Late:" Adriana Diaz hits the crystal for her puerility dream 06:47

Adriana Diaz traded her reporter's notebook for fig skates in the latest installment of "CBS Mornings" "Never Too Late" series.

Diaz, who celebrated her 10th day with an crystal skating party, enlisted nonrecreational skater Elladj Baldé arsenic her coach. The Canadian fig skater has gained wide designation for breaking accepted boundaries successful the athletics by incorporating hip-hop, funk and originative look into his routines.

Baldé, whose unsocial benignant went viral during the pandemic, reassured Diaz erstwhile she questioned her adult-learning capabilities. "It's never, ne'er excessively late," Baldé said. "I've met radical that started skating successful their 30s, 40s, adjacent successful their 50s."

The two-day grooming league included learning cardinal techniques similar crossovers, with Baldé providing changeless encouragement. 

When Diaz did yet instrumentality her archetypal tumble, Baldé congratulated her: "You've officially go a existent fig skater."

Baldé opened up astir his past struggles arsenic a idiosyncratic of colour successful fig skating. 

"I would alteration the mode that I skate. I would alteration what benignant of euphony I perceive to. I would effort to accommodate to that box," helium reflected. "I neglected everything that was Black astir maine and I embraced the White broadside of me, and that part created a precise achy experience."

Baldé present helps others clasp their authentic selves done his Skate Global Foundation and grooming camp.

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