Stept night life in Calgary

Brendan P snapping shots

Seany Jizzle gettin down

Clayton working the other side

New to the Stept team, Chad Jackson Montgomery looking for food

Halfway through the trip, the crew had to slow their role due to an injury that rider Justin Norman had sustained. After stepping to a heavy dub kink with a significantly high drop on the side, Justin got caught up on one of the gaps in the rail and fell off early, landing a near 15 foot drop to his back. With no snow protecting him, Justin took the brunt of the fall to pavement on his pelvis, breaking it in two places. After everyone helped Justin to the hospital to get checked out, the crew went back to work, happy that Justin wasn’t hurt as bad as he was, but also bummed of what just went on. Get better soon Justin!

J Norm gettin illy before his accident

Clayton locking on

Warnick stepping to the rail with no snow around

Chuckland breazin down the chillage

The boys using the bungee

Seanathon wearing gloves withe a tee shirt

Breaking in the white STE tee

Stay tuned for what’s going down with the crew where the boys will be working on more handrails and pow.

The Stept whip

You know we be stayin organized

A sneak peak of the Scott 2011 pole series

Mandatory Taco Bell run before waxin shots

Team rider Larson Riley

Tammy Wamstick

Charlie Owens a.k.a. Chucklehead, a.k.a. Chowens, a.k.a. Chuckle Cheesepiece

We be steady mobbin

Another angle of one of the set ups

Nikki Salas wearing 10 different hoodies

A little STE product placement

Make sure to stay tuned to what’s going down with the crew, and expect more updates to come. Next up, the boys head to Calgary to wax on some Canadian woman as well as some gritty downtown urban.

A whole winter of plans immediately vanished. I went from having everything, to nothing.  I soon began to realize the gravity of my situation. No skiing until summer, moving out my house in the mountains, enrolling for school for the spring, contract changes, canceling flight reservations and trips, and surgery; were some my immediate concerns. At that point I realized the only way I could get through my situation was to keep a positive attitude and come back stronger than ever.

Filming at in Oregon earlier this fall with PBP

My first step was scheduling surgery. Most patients spend anywhere from 2-4 weeks doing pre-op physical therapy when they tear their ACL as bad as I did. This is to condition your knee and regain a range of motion, which will result in a faster post-op recovery. Luckily, after I tore my ACL, my knee was still healthy enough to operate on immediately. I had surgery three days after my accident at the world renowned Steadman Hawkins Clinic in Vail, Colorado; a 30 minute drive from my house.

about to go in for surgery

There are a few options when choosing where to get the replacement piece for your ACL, the common being, from your hamstring, from your patella tendon, or from a cadaver. Due to my age, and how damaging skiing is on your knees, the doctors at Steadman decided that a patella tendon graft would be the strongest option for me. I got to the hospital at 9:00 AM and was able to leave around 6:00 PM, with a knee the size of a football (american style), and pocket full of painkillers.

in a motion machine, looking like I’m in transformers

After a rough night of trying to sleep I found myself at physical therapy at 9:00 AM, with a women cranking on my leg as I sat there in agony. From that moment on I have spent at least 3-4 hours a day rehabbing my knee.

I am currently in boulder filming for the new Stept Movie, and working on some new edits. Check out the first video of many to come below…

Nick and Mike Clarke filming a rail in boulder for the new Stept Movie

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