🗨️ 'I suffered hallucinations and memory loss on my 3000-mile longboard trip in America' In the months leading up to his trip, Rupert Rixon had an accident that left him unable to remember who he was
Although Rixon believes the desert was the hardest part, the trip started to take its toll on his body and just a few days before he attempted to break the record for miles completed on a longboard in 24 hours, he had“I could feel this intense tingling in my face and my fingers felt really heavy and twitchy. I just felt really out of it. It just feels like your brain is missing almost and you’re struggling to compose your thoughts,” he says.
“I was so excited to get out to America. I was dying for it but there [were] a lot of times I wanted to just go home and hug my mum,” he says.– and he only replaced the wheels three times. The same cannot be said for his shoes that would get ripped when he put his foot down to brake. A lot of the trip they were wrapped in duct tape or replaced – shop owners often gave them free replacement shoes.
People along the way would frequently help the boys: they stayed in around 20 homes en-route where strangers would let them sleep the night in a bed instead of the van, make them breakfast and offer them a warm shower. “I’d wipe my face on my white t-shirt and it would just leave a brown stain,” says Rixon who spent the first week skating without a shower.The full trip was filmed and the footage, which was approximately eight days long, was condensed into a one-hour documentary entitled.
“It’s quite emotionally taxing watching the film though,” he says. “I can’t find myself viewing it in the same way as I would be able to watch something else. I see all the other things that happened or the things that it reminds me of. It was amazing but it was such a difficult thing to take on and watching it back is quite exhausting. I can really feel it again.”
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