I took a recent trip to British Columbia, Canada, to do some longboarding, and filming. The trip went amazingly, I had the entire month of July off to just explore BC. Went to my favorite event, Giants Head Freeride. Had my picture taken by professional photographers ( see a few posts back ), and filmed some amazing fun runs down this mountain. Felt super on my game the whole trip, and took some of the fastest runs down Giants Head I have taken yet.
Fast forward to the second last day of the trip, and I'm attending the Chute Lake longboard race. I was originally just planning to take it easy, and try to get as many runs as possible, but this run I got the competitive urge! The guy in the red helmet had been drinking, and being a bit of a dick. So when I started to pass him, it was on!
During practice, I had been sliding just before the corner, then gripping it. However this run went against my instincts, and followed the line of the person ahead of my, thinking they knew this hill better than me. As you can see in the slomo replay, he crashes at the same time I did. Thus I followed a bad line, and red helmet followed me, which you can hear at the very end of the video.
Aside from bruising and scrapes, I was the only one actually injured. When I hit the haybale I sprained my left ankle, and my board followed me, hitting me in the ankle. That's what cause the scrape you see on my ankle. That or the zipper from my leather suit dug into my leg, but due to the board hitting me. This got infected, and cause my ankle to swell quite badly. Couldn't even walk because the blood would rush too my foot, and made it hurt like hell! Had to take some pretty strong antibiotics, but luckily so noticeable issues from the antibiotics.
Now it's been a month and a half since the crash, and I'm close to being back at 100%. Definitely messed my back up more by laying down so much with my foot elevated due to the swelling. But I've been skating a little bit each day since I got back on my feet, and I can feel my balance coming back. My first real test was the previous video, and I felt pretty shakey still. Though I edited it out of that video, I did almost crash a few times, and nearly destroyed my 360 camera. Ended up sliding on the selfie stick!
Here is the previous video of me getting back on board, shot in 360!
https://steemit.com/dtube/@howweroll/vr0vhzwej6o