![]() And having this minor injury I can still walk around. ![]() But it was just my meniscus and that’s like a miracle. If I was leaning right or left or back or forward I would have torn my MCL, PCL, ACL, something. He’s hobbling around with the help of a cane these days in Carlsbad, California - the Mecca of park skating - happy for the accomplishment, grateful for the two months he has to recover for Tokyo. He made it back to the park, muscled through the pain and finished 11 th in the semis, becoming the first Canadian skateboarder to qualify for the Olympics. “I woke up and my range of motion was nada.”Ī physiotherapist friend rushed over to the hotel and worked on Anderson’s knee for an hour. He went back to his hotel, took an ice bath, got some sleep and hoped for the best. His was good enough for fourth place and a spot in the semifinal round the next day. I’ve been working three, four, I don’t know, 21 years, to make it to this point.” I worked over a year and a half on one trick that’s in this run. Regular contest, scrap it, I’m done, let’s heal up. I can’t stress enough there’s no way I would have stepped on a board unless this run meant this much. If I’m being careful, I’m not skating properly at this point. “I look at him and I’m like, be careful? Dude, this is my opportunity. So then the doctor says ‘OK, well just be careful.’ “This is my last chance to make it into the Olympics so there’s no frickin’ way I’m leaving the course to get my knee taped up before my run. So I’m limping out of the bowl and I’m screaming and trying to bend down because I’m going to have to bend down in my run 10 minutes from now.”Ī first aid attendant offered to tape up his knee if Anderson would take himself off the course. I fall down, I frickin’ sit on my foot all sideways. “I drop in to the bowl, I go to the deep end and immediately just explode. Then disaster struck during his first warmup run on Day One of the competition. Rain played havoc with the practice schedule in Des Moines but Anderson snuck in enough drop-ins to carve out a 37-second run he knew would qualify him, so he was feeling good about his chances. Available in 2 sizes 8.45' x 31.75' with a 14.25' Wheelbase. He gave me this sick spiel on trusting your talent, how important it is, and how your talent will provide for you. Vancouver local Andy Andersons first pro board from Powell-Peralta One of a kind shape designed by Andy himself. “I was calling him late at night for advice. Skate One has been a manufacturer & distributor of high performance skateboarding equipment and clothing since 1976. He had already scribbled Peralta’s words onto his left hand. So I wrote it down on my left hand.”Īnderson would normally have written in the notebook he keeps in his back right pocket. I was like, there we go, that’s what God wanted me to hear tonight. “What this guy told me was God reminded him that sometimes you have to step into another realm when things are challenging. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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