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When I broke my jaw I was confused, it was all happened so fast. One minute I was in I was have a great time mountain biking and the next, I was being loaded into an ambulance with an oxygen mask stuffed my nose. It was a rainy day and trails were getting wet, and there was a storm was blowing in. It was rather windy that day. My cousins we in town and we were headed to go grab some lunch down at the lodge. I was on the run into for the 30ft step-up which I had hit many times before. I launched into the air and there was a huge just of wind to the left of me. It blew me off course and through me into the pit next to the jump. My front tire landed first and wham!, landed face first and plummeted down flipping forward and backwards, tumbling in every direction, It felt like I was tumbling for an eternity. I didn't feel much pain at first, but when I stood up I noticed my teeth weren't lining up correctly. My right side of my mouth was not even touching. I started to choke as I fell on the ground. I coughed into my hand and there was blood and thats when I felt that butterfly feeling inside of me. There was a fire road next to me and I was blessed that there was a medical truck that happened to be there. They quickly ran out of the truck, it felt like they were running in slow motion. They strapped me to a board and asked me to hold an oxygen tank which they quickly attached to my face. They loaded me into the back of truck. I few bumpy minutes later I was being loaded into an ambulance with machines all around me. They started giving me shots and left and right and saying words I have never heard before. It was there in there when I knew this was real. I felt like the whole weight of the world was ontop of me. As I was laying down in the hospital about to get my surgery I was wondering what I was going to do when I could not mountain bike.
I have been fishing my whole life and when I broke my jaw I finally found the power of fly fishing. After I broke my jaw I couldn't really do anything physically demanding so I fished every single chance that I had. Fly fishing was my escape, I was surprised that something as simple as throating a fly into a small stream in the middle of nowhere made me forget about everything else in my life. I would fish for hours on end sometimes even a whole day. I would hike out at In the morning for a few hours just to get to a remote stream to escape.
Going through these times when I broke my jaw were rough mentally and physically tough especially when it was wired shut and I count not eat a single thing. I have skied all of my life since I was 3 and a half years old. Skiing has always been one of the greatests passions in my life. When I was younger I was always scared about injury, I would always think about what would go wrong and all of the negatives that could happen. When I joined the mammoth freeskI team at twelve years old, I was surrounded by people who would just forget about everything that can go wrong. I slowly started to learn that I felt so much more free and alive when I was thinking about what could go right rather than what could go wrong. I instantly connected with them and understood what they we all about. I started to embrace the fact that the risk of injury is a part of skiing and realized that that the risk will always be there and never go away. I found that life is full of risks and I should never let them stop me from doing what I love just because there is a small risk of something going wrong. Using this mindset I started to progress faster in skiing and enjoying it alot more. I then won the Mammoth Mountain A team award from my progressing and my positive view on skiing. After my mountain biking incident people asked me if I still want to mountain bike after I broke my jaw, and I thought to myself replied yes. Mountain biking can be dangerous and sometimes things will go wrong but I learned to never let that stop me from doing what I love.
I have always had a passion for photography for as long as I can remember. My dream would be to follow that passion well into my future. My greatest fear in life would be up waking up in the morning and hating my job. I would much rather make alot less money while what doing what I love rather than being rich and doing something I am not happy with.