the aftermath

[matthew]

well everyone knows i got my ass handed to me out at hood but im at my aunts house now im doing ok i dont have to get any pins in my hand just got a cast on it i got my chest tube out 2 days ago but i cant fly for 3 months so im mostlikely takeing a train home and i was discharged from the marines so i have to reinlist sometime so it looks like ill have a full winter so i want to ride with you all some more soon and thanks for adding me to the team g and seth if you dont want to post the pics can you email them to me? my email is skiboardingkid@hotmail.com thanks if you want to know anything ask away and thanks to everyone for comeing up to the hosipatal

[Jeff Miles]

Say
thats what family is for....we all got to stick together,
through the worst and best of times...we're all just so
glad that it wasn't any worse....get well matt

[Greco]

holly shit matt. i didn't know about the flying thing, that's crazy. i'm glad you're wrist won't need surgery. i hope we can ride again this winter.

g

[bailey]

hey man, get well soon eh?? hope you get to the marines soon!! we'll be seeing eachother this winter!
take it easy

[adamlynam]

glad to hear your doing good matt.... hope things continue to get better and better for you...... but make sure not to rush back into things too quickly and possibly cause permanant damage!!!

keep doing well!!!! and stay stoked!!!


-lynam

[Jonny W]

yo dude, glad to hear your doing better, surgery sucks, its good you didn't have to have it. you check out the vids when you were in the hospital? it was great to see you in high spirits, you handled urself better then alot of us would, take ur time in healing right dude, you got lots of time befor the season and we'll rip it up sometime this year.
easy
whitey

[Bentfilms]

its all been said already, but props on staying so strong dude... you handled it really well. you were killin it, dude, cant wait to see you rip this winter....

drink lots of milk

b

[matthew]

thanks guys im hopeing to ride with everyone soon i want to hit the dec. event and pan. the vids where sick none of the nurses had any clue what they where it was great and im hopeing to be home by the end of the month. so is anyone up for hood part II? i would be good sometime right after everyones out of school.

[bailey]

man, we were talking about that.. were thinking of going back up next july and camping out on the mountain side

[Mix]

The large rock to the right is the one he bonced off of like a rag-doll.

[Davelynam]

holy shit.... that rock is retarded..........did he hit his back on it or what...hes lucky he not dead.
props for livin through that , hope u get better soon

d lynam

[Jeff Miles]

ummm, i wouldn't go that far- that he's lucky he's not dead there
d.lynam, but when i saw it happen (closest to the accident), i swore i saw him hit his back on it, so i was literally pray'n to god,
that he will come out of this better then what everyone was anticipating....and it look'd like the lord listen'd....Matt u da man!
"Ski Hard or Die Trying"

[Greco]

hey i was wondering does anyone know who was closest to matt when he got hurt? it's real important.

[Jeff Miles]

Hey Greco, i was....
i know b/c i was the only one to get to him faster...
i was on the far left side of the rock gap thingy,
ben and adam where on the other side, seth and u
where on each side of the inner part of the mtn. where
matt flew by before launching, why is it important that u
know who was closest?

[Greco]

oh it's not, nevermind, just checking something.

[matthew]

update im doing better my ribs still hurt but not as much as they did the hole where they put the chest tube is healed and there isent much of a scar and i should have this dumb cast off in 3 weeks im hopeing ill be home by then and im still sleeping on my aunts floor in washington.

[tommy]

woooo it really was bad then, i hope you get better in time to skiboard for this season!

[PureVenom]

Damn Matt....I hope everything is getting better and you are feeling well man. Sounds like a pretty hellish crash. Good to hear you in good spirits after something like that....cheers

[matthew]

wow cant belive its been 2 years now. its crazy to look back and see how life has worked out. not only for me but the sport i love more then anything. i havent got back into the milatry like i was tole and hoped i would and i have been sleeping on my friend floor for the past 6 months and havent seen my family in a year. my rideing has got 1000 times better i think anyway. if you look a skiboarding if it wasent for seth and mix i dont think we would be where we are at today 110's that was seth. would revl8 be here? who knows i dont think they would. its crazy to look back and think about that one day that changed my life and maybe others like no one will ever know. just crazy


matt

[Greco]

dude you could be in iraq or worse right now.

g

[matthew]

ah ya thats what im saying. looking at all the post's and shit leading up to hood its just nuts to think of how thing might have ended up

[adamlynam]

i would just like to go on the record and say that seth's brainchild of a 110 was the most amazing thing anyone has ever thought of.... man.... where the hell could that guy have come up with such an idea..... wow


man,
-a-


p.s. what a great idea that was that SETH had













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