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Ive gota start by saying DO NOT WATCH THIS VIDEO IF YOU DONT WANT TO SEE A BROKEN LEG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now thats out of the way, in 2008 when we first got the mbs demo ramp on the road we were heading to the iog soltex to show them how we rolled, im not sure how it came up but me an Alex Downie ended up chatting about the times when our back foot had come out of the binding doing a frontflip, it was a pretty funny converstaion which ended up with us both deciding we were some lucky son of a guns. anyway, we arived at the event, set up and spent the rest of the day skating a palet, good times!

Next morning we got up bright an early brushed out teath and got our pads on, the first demo was pretty fun, the setup was nice and fast an we were all having a blast then on my last jump in the second demo everything went to shit, my foot came out of my binding as i took off for a frontflip then to my suprise my ankel broke in three places and dislocated when i hit the deck, bad times!

After a fair old hit of morphine and some class beatboxing courtesy of Rhys and Downie I was carted off to hospital were I cant rember what happened untill I came to and saw Downie lying in a bed next to me with a full cast on his leg, at first I thought I was spinning out but then he spoke and we had a good old laugh about it, I think. This moment was the end of Downies time on a board and a sad day for us all, he was by far the most natural and talented rider ever, but thats another story an one we will cover in the future. 

I dont wana sound like one of those cheesie snowboarders that piss me off no end but, my first thoughts were, this is me done, ill get into writing poetry or knitting or something like that, but that idea died as soon as I saw someone ride, it made me so damn jelous, and I knew from that moment that however bad I wanted or needed to stop riding I wouldnt be able to, because its like some sort of addiction.

After a year and a bit my leg was sweeet again, well not sweet but ok and getting back on a board felt so good, in a way it felt even easier than before because I had spent so much time thinking about it. so the moral of the story is, dont be a pussy, na i’m joking, the moral of the story is you can hurt youself doing anything, yeah mountainboarding probably hurts a bit more than knitting but your body’s pretty good at healing and the fun you can get out riding outways the pain or time lost from a little bruise or a broken bone, oh yeah, and always make sure your heelstrap  is on proper;y.

ill stop talking crap now so you can watch the film if you like.