Font Romeu – Jan 2006

Unfortunately, I got a bit cocky this time and whilst straight lining one of the easier runs at very high speed I must have lost control and crashed out fairly spectacularly. Suffice to say that I completely lost my short term memory for a good few hours, was rushed to hospital in an ambulance, x-ray’d and diagnosed with severe concussion. Of coarse I (stupidly) discharged myself from Perpignan Hospital and went straight back on the slopes the next day. By the end of the day I was blasting down the same run to shouts of ‘SLOW DOWN’ from my homies on the lifts. Madness. It was only when I returned to work a few days later and felt dizzy and sick that I thought I ought to get checked by a UK doctor and was told to go to bed for a week of sleeping off my bruised brain! My left eye is almost functioning normally now and the only other problems are mild headaches which should pass, and the fact that I can no longer feel the top of my left foot!? I guess the moral is: ALWAYS WEAR A HELMET. I didn’t even have a bump on my head but guess I came very close to serious brain damage. I’m ordering a decent helmet before my next trip. Definitely.

Anyway, it was still great. I achieved huge speeds and christened my excellent K2 Push board. I can’t wait to go again, with a helmet.

There will be more photo’s soon. As soon as I have time to sort it out.

Streaming video of the January trip HERE.

What’s my name again?

Watch this space….

March 06

(With helmet this time!)

C’est moi!

Allez!

Bonjour!

…and no trips to hospital this time!