It's finally happened - what most snowboarders dread - an injury on the board park that prevents you from riding for a few days.

We have an awesome board park here with fat half pipe, kickers, about 5 rails and a 15 foot quarter pipe, which you can see on the far left side of the photo below. The photo was taken from the Alpin Express gondola during the nitro Style Session which I DJd at. Bigup Reto, Tos & Nicholas for shaping the jumps, & Dominic & Gabe for organising the comp.



i had just hit 2 big kickers in a row and wanted to use my speed to ride up the quarter pipe, do a tail stall on the lip (skate style) and drop back in. however it was snowing and viz was pretty shit, so by the time I was riding up the pipe, I couldnt actually see the lip (it wasnt painted or anything)

I was going too fast for the trick I wanted to do, I ended up airing about 6 feet out of the quarter pipe, and did a full body landing, face down on the lip and top of quarter pipe. it didnt hurt too much, tho I did feel my knee hit the snow quite hard.

After a breather in the deck chairs i carried on riding for the rest of the day. It was snowing and i was having fun. thanks to new oakley goggles I could see most things pretty well. However at the end of the day I was getting into one of the gondola lifts and noticed that the laminates at the back of my board had separated - basically, my board was fucked. another eFFing insurance claim

then last night i was DJing in Popcorn, the biggest club in town holding 400 people. it was an awesome night for many reasons. Well after 4 hours on my feet non stop I noticed my knee hurting, and when I got back to the chalet at 4am it was pretty swollen. I went to the doc today & i ahve an inflamed ligament, nothing broken, and i'm off work for a couple of days.

so here's the view from my bed: