In Hanazono Resort of Niseko, there is a facility called bag jump, where you launch off a ramp on skis, snowboard or bike and land on a gigantic air bag. I hit it last month with friends and it was super fun. We vowed we’d hit it again during this season, but the operation has […]

Now that the punctured lung is all fine, I just got out of the hospital today. There still is a dull ache in the chest and back, but I can at least sneeze without startling pain. For a while I’ll stay off the bike for the broken hand needs some time to heal up. One […]

I’ve been connected to a machine with a plastic tube to suck the air out of my thorax, but had it taken off today. Pretty psyched about not having to drag the machine on a squeaky old little cart everywhere I go. Now that the only concerns are the broken rib and hand, I’m looking […]

Two days have passed at the hospital, and things are looking better. Big news today was that the collarbone perhaps was not broken this time. By this time I mean it is broken in three pieces at the far end, but the doctor said it must be an old injury. The main bone and two […]

At the hospital now. I was going to talk about how it had rained nonstop in September, how the tail bone kept aching after a handrail attempt, and how I nailed flips on the bag jump… But then came the big news. I broke three bones, and have been admitted to a hospital today, after […]

When I talk to my friends who I haven’t talked to for a while, they sometimes mention my getting injured a lot recently. It’s a false charge. Apart from small cuts, scratches and minor surgeries on old injuries, I haven’t got injured so much recently. It’s been exactly a year since the last major thing, […]

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How was your weekend? It was a good weekend for me, as I rode with friends twice, Friday night and Saturday afternoon. On Saturday, I had a session with my friend who had just found a nice wall. He also took cool pictures there. Now, the story will get more and more graphical and brutal […]

Motivated by the infamous South Park story of beefcake, I have been working on serious muscle building recently. Even though there is no such magic nutrition that makes you strong in a day, I’ve been working out at the gym and taking protein and creatine supplements. The results are already showing. As I started squatting […]

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