So the last 18 months or so has been… let’s just say difficult to say the least. I’ve seen that you’ve dealt with a few injuries and now the coronavirus pandemic. Talk to us, what’s been going on? What’s happened?
Well, the injuries have been playing a big part in it obviously, I think it was around January 2019 when the first one occurred. It’s been pretty much downhill since then. I broke my foot at the beginning of 2019, had about a month/two months off. They said it was all healed and I was good to go. I was like, “sweet let’s get back to it", at this point I only had around four clips for the DVD… I then rode for five days and on the fifth day I broke my foot, that took three months extra and that was pretty mentally draining.
Once I got back, I went on about three trips for the DVD and they were all really good, I say really good, actually they weren’t very good. Other shit happened during that time which didn’t help contribute to the whole ‘fun’ DVD process. What else did I break… I broke my… haha this is pretty irrelevant but I broke my big toe which was only a couple of weeks but that sucked!
More recently in December 2019 I was in Barcelona on a trip and I was suppose to go straight from there to what I think was the, fourth We The People filming trip for me? And I broke my ankle again, so I didn’t make the trip, I didn’t even get onto it! That was a bad break, took about four months until I got given the all clear. I really wanted to, knowing I didn’t have much time before the deadline, do it right and heal up really good. Then as soon as I got back riding, literally a week or two later the ol’ corn-dog started and I’ve been stuck in my house ever since haha!
So to say there’s been a few walls in the way of my filming process for this DVD would be an understatement. It’s felt like every time I would get back on a straight line, something would set me back and then I’d have to wait another three months. That has literally been the process the whole way through, ride for a month, set back three/four months, ride for a month, set back for three/four months. During the whole filming process its felt like there has been only one point that I was involved in the DVD, where I was able to really knuckle down and work as every other point was stop, start, stop, start. That’s no one fault, just really unlucky to be fair, and yeh its been… it has been the worst filming process of my whole entire life haha. Its been horrible and I can’t wait for it to be over so I can start something new.
So in total how many injuries have you had in the past 18 months whilst filming for Out Of Line? How many months have you been out?
I haven’t added that up but I can, the first break was short, my foot being maybe a month or two and then the ankle was quite bad. I’m pretty sure all together the foot and the ankle (the first ankle) was maybe four months? Nah, maybe three months.