Mr. Itaru Fujinuma, who is active as a professional snowboarder and as an MC for various events, has sent us a commemorative movie that turned 40 this year.This movie expresses gratitude to the people around me who supported me during the serious injury I suffered in 2015 and the days of rehabilitation after that.
Please take a look with Mr. Fujinuma's thoughts!
(Hereafter, my thoughts on the video production that Mr. Fujinuma spelled out)
The situation of the injury was worse than expected
Thoughts of being able to continue rehabilitation
The ligament rupture of athletes is so serious that it is reported in the news, but in my case, the three ligaments of the front, back, and inside were ruptured.Furthermore, it is said that the most serious of my injuries was a patellar tendon rupture that cannot occur in a normal sports injury ("patellar tendon rupture" usually occurs due to a fall accident at work at height. (It seems to be injured), and the reality that it is difficult to walk well if the operation to connect the patellar tendon is not successful is confronted immediately after the injury.At the same time, I was told that the lateral meniscus tear that was moving upside down between the femur and tibia, which is not visible on MRI, and the fibula fracture that was clearly broken near the knee were mild in my injury ... ..It's like playing a ball from a cold defeat confirmed point difference that makes you have an overwhelming losing game at the start.
Rehabilitation was quite difficult both physically and mentally.At the beginning of rehabilitation, I felt like I was forced to bend and stretch my knees, which I couldn't bend or stretch, and I wasn't exaggerated, but every day!It feels like the rehabilitation is over (^ ◇ ^;).After spending such a tough time for a long time, my positive feelings naturally faded, and I said, "Isn't it impossible to run honestly anymore?" "Isn't it even more impossible to slip if I have to run?" It may have taken longer to feel myself negative.
However, my senior riders, those who had been estranged until then, and a large number of people gave me messages of encouragement and came to visit me because I was injured.It's an easy thing to give up at any time, but I've come to think, "I'm so sorry for the people who supported me."In addition, I've heard many times that I'm injured and give up on sports, so if I can overturn that situation, I'll give a little hope to people in similar circumstances. I thought I could do something.When such an idea came to my mind, I began to think, "If you can do your best, do your best, and do as much as you can, why don't you take the courage to put on the board again? You have to do that!" rice field.
In addition, various people care about me and invite me to the event by MC etc., and gradually I have more opportunities to talk to the snowboarding site, and I feel like "I am a snowboarder! I'm here! "
But ... I just didn't have the courage to skateboard.If you can go down the slope with a snowboard, you can carve a bowl with a skateboard, right?I was also invited.However, considering that it is necessary to have the strength of the body to be able to dash in order to make an escape movement to prevent falls, I think that it is a high hurdle movement for me who has difficulty in moving quickly, and for three and a half years I was a child. I kept looking away from my favorite skateboard since then.
When I think about it now, I had various conflicts in my heart, such as "I wonder if it doesn't work and I feel sad" or "I'm embarrassed to expose myself to the public who can't move much even if I get on the deck" ... ..
I reconfirmed my thoughts when I started
To trigger the resumption of skating
When I was invited by my friend NAKAYA KENZO (Scooter, TADPOLE craft Backyard) who is a guide at Hakuba Bantei to go to the pro shop NEVERLAND in Joetsu, I couldn't make the trick that my good friend elementary school student wanted to do. I was moved to see that I kept trying the trick again and again.
"Oh, how tiny my way of thinking was. It's ridiculous not to slip because I don't want to be seen by people. It's not the purpose to slip for people, I slip because I want to have fun, because it's fun. I thought, "I'm gonna slip for myself because I'm having fun !?" But look! "When I tried it, I was able to make up ... "Oh !? My body has become strong enough to withstand this much !!" I was confident.
After that, I was able to check the movements that can be done on the deck and the difficult movements, just like a soccer player lifting, and a baseball player playing catch and seeing the injured part. ..
Thoughts on the title and video theme
I was talking with Iwata (head, SP-bindings), a comedian rider who is shooting a movie with me, saying, "We are already 40 years old, do you have any commemorative events !?" I and Iwa-chan were born on November 1979, 11, with exactly the same date of birth), and Iwa-chan is busy with entertainment activities during the off-season, so it's hard to make time.Then, I just wanted to take a video with a message of gratitude to everyone who took care of me so far, so I cooperated with Shohei Suzuki, a student of JWSC High School who is currently active as a filmer at a video editing company. When I consulted with him, he decided on "27tricks for my 40th birthday," which is also the title of this video, with the flow of "Let's decide on a theme to make it!" In commemoration of the 40th anniversary, let's do 40 tricks that are the same as the age by taking advantage of the rehabilitation on the skateboard that we worked hard to return to the snowboarding site!That's why it got its name.The shooting location was taken at the indoor park of JWSC, the all-Japan winter sports vocational school, which is my alma mater and Filmer Shohei Suzuki's alma mater!
