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<\/a><\/p>\nAfter filming two standout parts – opener in State of Mind, closer in Cold World – Deadlung found himself facing sponsor pressure to deliver even more. Unwilling to push himself beyond what he felt humanly possible, he took a step back, and soon found himself without a board sponsor. While\u00a0he never stopped riding, it seemed the professional snowboard dream may be over for Lung as he neared the dreaded age of 30. However, armed with an iPod nano and a deep passion for sliding on snow, Deadlung kept riding and putting out content, and his career has soldiered on. He\u00a0joined forces D-Day snowboards and started Tite belts, and is well on his way to achieving his ultimate\u00a0goal of continuing to snowboard, forever.<\/em><\/p>\n Brooke: My first really important question for you is, does D Day pay you in weed?<\/strong><\/p>\n Deadlung:<\/b>\u00a0(laughs) No.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Brooke:\u00a0Do you wish they did though?<\/strong><\/p>\n Deadlung:<\/b>\u00a0Mmm, no.<\/p>\n Brooke:\u00a0I actually heard you had to quit smoking weed, after your injury, is that true?<\/strong><\/p>\n Deadlung:\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0Well I had to quit smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol\u2026<\/p>\n Brooke:\u00a0How was that?<\/strong><\/p>\n Deadlung:<\/b>\u00a0It was\u2026 well, on top of getting hurt it wasn\u2019t that tight at all… I went like a month without drinking and I went a couple months doing really well\u00a0with nicotine, well not nicotine, I was chewing nicorette like crazy, but on tobacco I\u00a0was good. But yeah, it\u2019s a fucking struggle. No cigarettes sucked. That\u2019s one thing to never ever start doing is smoking cigarettes, because it\u2019s the best thing ever, and the worst at the same time. Quitting is so gnarly, you get all dizzy and fatigued and shit and start coughing, I\u00a0was losing my voice and shit. Appetite goes through the roof though.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Once we hit the tree\u00a0I\u00a0was like, ‘we’re dead.’\u00a0I\u00a0wasn\u2019t dead<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Brooke:\u00a0When and how did you get hurt?<\/strong><\/p>\n Deadlung:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>I was just like cruising down the cat track on busy ass Martin Luther King holiday weekend, and I\u00a0was stuck behind this family, so I\u00a0decided I\u00a0would just scrub all my speed and cruise down the run off the side of the cat track, instead of continuing down it, cause\u00a0I\u00a0wasn\u2019t going to pass them. It was a sketchy zone, so I\u00a0scrubbed on the right side on my toes and turned to fakie to go across the cat on my toes, facing up the cattrack.\u00a0I\u00a0didn\u2019t think anyone was behind me and if there was they were going slow too cause\u00a0it was a congested area on a sketchy part of the cat track – in a \u201cslow zone,” right before a blind corner\u2026 This guy was way behind me for like a quarter mile down the cat track, but I\u00a0had no idea cause\u00a0he was that far back. But he was going so fast that he caught up to me super quick. When I\u00a0went to cruise off the side, he came out of nowhere.\u00a0I\u00a0was like going walking speed across the cat track, I\u00a0wouldn\u2019t have been able to even catch any air off the side, and I didn\u2019t see him. I think if I did and I wasn\u2019t going so slow I could have dodged him. He was going like 35-40 mph\u00a0probably, cause\u00a0when he slammed into me it was so fucking loud it made my ears ring.\u00a0I took him to my chest we flew like 15 feet into a tree. I hit that on my back just right of my spine, and we just exploded.\u00a0He went down the hill and I\u00a0guess I\u00a0bounced back up toward the cat.\u00a0I ended up hanging off the edge of cat track like 15 feet down from the tree we hit.\u00a0I couldn\u2019t breathe for like ten\u00a0fuckin’ minutes and he was screaming like he was dying. I think he thought he broke his femur or something. When he hit me it was so loud and it went all slow motion, washing machine style.\u00a0I\u00a0remember thinking it was so bad before we hit the trees and once we hit the tree I\u00a0was like, ‘we’re dead.’ I\u00a0wasn\u2019t dead, so I thought he might be dying or paralyzed or something. I\u00a0just thought this person must be your average beater and isn\u2019t as tough as I\u00a0am, so I\u00a0thought he was totally fucked. I\u2019m 6\u20192\u201d but I only weigh like 162 pounds or some shit, but this guy was like 6\u20191 and 230 pounds or something. Not fat, but like a big, top heavy,\u00a0 jock, meathead dude. He just completely fuckin’ destroyed me into a tree. We traveled like 30 feet from impact to where we\u00a0ended up. Ski patrol showed up with the toboggans and they had some oxygen for me. I think I was able to unstrap and climb back up on the cat like 15 minutes later and the fact that I very painfully stood myself up made me feel tough as fuck. Like, ‘what, nothing can stop me!’ Haha. I had to take the toboggan down to the bottom to the clinic.<\/p>\n