Kitesoul Magazine #16 English Edition

174
Interview
A lot of irony, great motivation, nasty accidents. But I enjoy the path
the bar in the second handle pass, but I ignored the fact that
the higher and more powered you go, the harder the landing
is… And I got injured in the last attempt (the last attempt of
Episode II is the real moment of the injury). Broken meniscus,
Bone contusion, blah, blah, blah!
KS_And how did you recover? Did you need surgery?
At the beginning I was a bit scared. It was the first injury in
my life and I was 37. And it was not the typical ankle little
thing, was something in the knee. The Knee! So important! So
big! “our knees, our wheels” (my mother always says that) I
did an RMI and they said Broken meniscus, maybe you need
surgery. But… I kept myself positive trying to think as less as
possible about it. I did cycling like a sick, I stretched a lot
and got my left leg stronger than King Kong’s rocket. In the
end, I didn’t need surgery. Yahoo!
KS_After being injured, during the recovery, did you think
about giving up the challenge?
No, of course I didn’t. And the reward for keeping on trying is
than I can go on answering what happens now when I fail the
Blind Judge 5. Nothing happens! After recovering from the
knee injury, I worked a lot on the trick and now I get higher
enough to do the whole rotation so I don’t suffer the heelside
edge and at the same time, I don’t go so high that my legs