Well, Jeff House has now torn his ACL in his "other" knee.... at least it was from doing a 9 off the wake though. Better than like, breaking a leg jumping off a cliff or something like that (Ya DG!). Anyway, the good news is that Spencer got some clean footage of Jeff's last set he took on the water before he got injured.... Good stuff:
Some of this stuff is a bit GRAPHIC so if you have a weak stomach, don't read or look!
I was pretty happy ho things went in 2009. I won a major Australian comp and i won a major international comp and in between i did over 100 shows.
I was planning a big year for 2010. Id received an invite to the X Fighters Qualifier in Los Angeles in February which was a nice surprise, I was unsure whether or not to go because id had a pretty big christmas break and my riding wasn't exactly up to scratch. I decided to ride as much as i could for a few days and then decide. My decision was made for me though after an afternoon ride at Matt Schubrings place, when I arrived feeling happy and motivated but left his place in the back of an
ambulance with a dislocated ankle and a compound fractured Tibia and a Fibula that was broken into 6 pieces.
Schuie's got some big jumps out at his place. One in particular is a 3rd gear step up where the face of the jump is about 5 metres high and vertical and you have to land on a small landing on top. You can come up short but your bike will be destroyed. And if you go long you end up like me. A few of the boys had jumped it and i was pretty confident. I'm usually pretty good at judging jumps, Burchy hit and came up really, really short. After that i over compensated and hit it too fast which bucked the back end up and threw me straight over the bars. All up i fell about 15 metres straight onto my right foot.
So 3 surgeries later i'm at home and have 10 weeks off to watch everyone enjoy the rest of the summer.As soon as i get back on i'll be getting ready for the nitro circus tour which i'd strongly suggest everyone buys tickets for because it's
gonna be awesome.
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