“My immediate reaction was, ‘Am I paralyzed?’ I went in pretty (dangerously) there. I went in neck-first, and you’re always taught as a kid when you’re going into the boards neck-first that you don’t go in (with your head bent down), you kind of just bail, and that’s what I did. I bailed and I let my shoulder take the blunt of it. I’m lucky I was taught that at a young age, because I don’t know where I would have been if I didn’t know how to protect myself from the injury that I had. It could have been a lot worse.”
