Wow, its the end of 2017. What a year. Not really the BEST year for me. In May this year I sustained a fairly massive injury to my leg, on my bike. I ride BMX bikes ‘Brofessionally’ and have done so for the past 20 years. I’ve competed a few times, but that never was my cup of tea. Anyways, I was riding home from work one day, and started to ride down a small hill, and put my leg out to steady myself quickly, and my shoe caught on the road, and down I went like a sack of potatoes. I think I may have been knocked out momentarily, luckily I was wearing a helmet.  I thought I had dislocated my right knee at first, so attempted to muscle it back into place, but when I felt bone rubbing against bone, I suspected it might be something a bit more major. I had twisted and sheared the top off my fibula (The large bone that runs from under your knee, down to your ankle) and messed up a whole bunch of bones and ligaments in my knee. I sat on the side of the road and rung an ambulance, then proceeded to ring my partner and inform her of the news. I’ll save you all the boring details, but I was in hospital for a few weeks, and underwent two operations to attached the bones back together, and fix the knee joint. I was down and out for at least 4 months imobilized with my knee in a full leg brace. 8 months down and I would say I’m probably at 70 percent strength back in my leg. I’ve been riding a lot of road bikes, and physio work to get the joint and muscles back to where they were, but its a time consuming process, and its frustrating to say the least. I definitely went through some dark patches while in hospital, with some doctors telling me I will probably never be able to ride a bike again, let alone walk properly or have proper use of my leg. That just gives me more motivation to push myself further than I can handle, and to prove them wrong. 

Luckily some friends came and visited me while I was in hospital, which was great, and my bud Mark Barber shot the black and white picture below on one of his fancy film cameras. It shows the exo-skeleton leg brace that was drilled into the bones in my leg to brace it. 

One thing that always ran through my mind while I was in hospital was ‘Somewhere, someone has it way worse than I do.’ So at this time of the year (Festive season) its always good to look back and appreciate the things that you have, and appreciate the smaller things that sometimes get over looked in this rat race we call life.

Some big projects lined up for the start of 2018 already, so I’ll be sure to post some updates in the new year. If you’re reading this and you’ve randomly come across my website, then take care on the roads, don’t forget to feed the cat, and drop me a line if you need any video content produced in 2018!  

But most important of all, Have more fun.