“Blowing my knee up has been a really difficult injury, I’ve had a few injuries here and there in my career but this has been by far the most struggle I’ve ever been through in my life. It’s only been 7 months since my crash and surgery so it’s still pretty new. Part of me think ‘I should be ready to go and back in my game’ but it’s just very humbling, it’s very tedious, I have to work on my patience, keep fighting through and staying motivated really, it’s a struggle.
I was skiing in Alaska in the backcountry, filming. The helicopter dropped me off at the top of the mountain, I obviously studied my line before hand, I knew where I was going and everything. The snow looked really really good, I made some turns at the top of the mountain into this cliff, and when I landed off this cliff, it was just rock hard. Basically I landed 30 feet to just concrete. I immediately felt my ACL snap but it was the tumbling afterwards, the hundreds and hundreds of feet of tumbling that just wrecked everything in my knee so I ended up blowing my ACL, MCL, meniscus, LCL. My meniscus was a bucket handle tear so my knee was completely locked, I did some bone damage so it’s just been a really complicated struggle of an injury” – Tatum Monod, Canadian Pro Freeskier. (3/4)
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