Injury nightmare

Since week 7, I haven’t been able to fully train. That is a pretty damn frustrating thing, and I’m going crazy when I’m not able to move. I’m sure that there are lots of other people out there, who share this feeling of being totally worthless and weak. That is seriously the worst thing in the world.

My nightmare started ten weeks ago doing my ski holiday. The very first day, I did a 360 on a kicker, and broke my hand which resulted in an arm in plaster.
2 weeks later I consulted my doctor, who said to me, that I shouldn’t worry about it, and it was fine to train again. So I did. But I felt that something was still wrong.
Then a month ago, I was out training in the trees ‘cause I really couldn’t do anything else because of my hand. So I found this branch, which is actually very good to practice balancing. It’s about 2 meters above the ground, and quite long. If you can get to the end of the branch, you have forced it to the ground with your weight and then it’s possible just to step of, and the branch would sway right back, with great force. I was so stupid/unlucky that when I reached the end of the branch and stepped of, my left leg got caught between some smaller branches with the result that I almost broke my ligament. COOL…!

About a week later doing a studying trip to Berlin, I was now able to “walk” again, and I thought to myself that maybe I should leave the bed, and go to the “Olymia Stadion” with the others. But yet again, I somehow managed to sprain my right angle, because I was jumping to reach the letters over the entrance.
Now what? I was not even able to walk on crutches, because of my hand, and I could definitely not walk because I had strained my LEFT knee ligament, and sprained my RIGHT foot. COOL…!
At that moment I was about to get crazy. Why was all of this happening to me?

I kept a low profile for a while and focused my training on my upper body.

About three weeks ago, I consulted another doctor again, because I couldn’t understand that my hand wasn’t getting better. And somehow this man was able to put my hand back on place. A bone had popped out, which had caused me all the trouble. He also told me that it was going to take another 6 weeks before I could fully use both my hand and my knee again.

That was a big relive, and I was very happy because I now saw light at the end of the tunnel, which meant that I also could begin my recovery when I knew what was wrong.
So I began to recover, and the best way to do that is climbing trees! I have literally been living in the trees the last 2 weeks, and I’m already feeling much stronger. Still there is a long way to go before I’m 100% but its okay as long as I can move!! Thanks god


So I’ve got a lot of time to think things through. And I think that when I’m through all of this s… I’m going to be stronger mentally and appreciate my training in a brand new way.

I will be back.


-Thomas Videbæk