im 24. i def peaked in my sophomore and junior year of HS so like 15-18 years old, 2005-2007, were my best years, and the years i can call my "prime " or glory days hahahaha for sure. winter of my sophomore and junior years of H.S. i was still doing really well and winning a bunch of USSA mogul comps ( or placing well enough to place in top three or four usually on the northwest stops as im from montana ) . Also would compete in the ol USSA slope style events ( so ghetto haha ) if they even had an event or course at that mountain etc, and i always did the USSA big air comps and won a couple and podiumed the rest but two over 2 winters. those were always fun cause they were usually held on an ariel hill with a gnarly unsafe jump and kids went crazy ! including me! ha it takes some balls to ride out a clean cork 9 on an Ariel hill haha. Also for those of you who remember this is when all the resorts were putting or trying to put in pipes alot more and trying to get pip zaugs and shit cause everyone thought and knew HP was guna be big in both skiing and bording, so i did alot of pipe comps around the northwest when ever a resort had one and held a comp and always did quite well imo considering i beat most of the kids who have the chance to train when ev they want in pipe,( i have never had a HP to ski at my hill and never will haha ) so i was always stoked to do well in those comps especially ............so well its kinda stupid to say seeing as how im only 24 but i am past my prime. and i know it and im fine with it, it was not my choosing ha. after the best winter of my life ( competition wise and results wise, i was gaining quite a few points and had some mogul sponsors set up for the upcoming summer at camp etc. ) then in the spring of 2007 my luck began to change, rapidly. April we built a large spring stepdown in the MT bc and were throwing down ( my brother and i ) and i had a bad crash on a cork 7 leaving me with a torn mcl and acl ( fully blown, the both of them) i thought no big deal ill come back and kill it lots of people hurt there knees i remember thinking to myself. i rehabed hard up until my surguy date wich was on june 24 2007, but decided to make the decision to go on a nice short lil vaca with da homies before surgery, welll my buddy has a nice cabin and boat on the lake etc and i decided it was a good idea to do a lil bit of water skiing ....fucking worst choice ever. well i fell, tore my hamstring 14 inches clear of my pelvis bone and ruined every nerve ending surrounding / attaching my hammy to my ass. and this was on june 21 just days before i was guna get my knee built back up. FUCKING RETARDED ON MY END ! i was on crutches for 11 months with no physical activity for over a year, 14 months to be exact. i went crazy. so after literally 2 1/2 years of rehab it was summer again and i was looking forward to being able to ski again . i decided that day to head up to my local hill that has some great DH trails ( my other passion being DH mnt biking) and my buddy wanted to go ride cause he never been on a DH trip and of course i had to take it real easy so we went up and got caught in a bad snow / rain storm. zero visability almost, then the worst crash of my life went down , hit a hip on left on trail way to fast cleared over the trail and ended up flying face first into a full grown pin tree at 30 mph. hospital, er, brain stem all messed up, hemoraging , blood thinners etc. i almost dead haha. so ya way past my prime, if i can go ski groomers all day im a happy man.
