Cody Rosenthal Update

Cody Rosenthal Update

By: Joe Carter
Photos: Joe Carter, Eric Warner, Andrew Miller, George Crosland

As many of you may or not know. A good friend to us all here at Snowrev Cody had injured his L3 Vertebrae last May at Snowboarder Magazine’s Superpark. He had to be flown by helicopter to Reno for surgery. As you can imagine things like this do not come cheap. However he is on a good road to make a full recovery. So now all of you out there that either know Cody, or have even ever seen him snowboard are not left in the dark and if there are people that would still like to help out, you still can. Check the links below for more info.

//www.snowboard-revolution.com/news/Love-for-Cody-Rosenthal-_-Back-Fundraiser.html
http://injuredriders.org/

- Eric Warner Photo

- Cody Ally-oop backside rodeo during Mammoth’s West Coast Invitational

For the people out there who don’t know, how did everything go down?
I was cruising around Superpark no big deal doing what I normally do, not trying to get crazy just having fun. I was with Ricky Tucker And Harrison Gordon and I hit the last jump and completely missed the fucking landing. Not only that but I was going way to fast to begin with which is kinda weird because I could barely clear that jump all day. Anyway I did a backside 9 straight to flat and landed on my feet. I broke my L3 vertebrae, shit hurt. Then I flew to Reno and got surgery.

- Cruising earlier at that day at Superpark

- Brokeback yoga?

- The jump

How long did you have to stay in the hospital?
I was in the hospital for about a week. I was pretty out of it, but I had my family and friends there with me. If it wasn’t for them It would have been a lot worse.

- Eric Warner Photo

- Last Spring cruising Main Park at Mammoth in the Superpipe

- Switch Method? Nope, Ally-oop stalefish

- Right after riding all day. Boneless at JLA Park

- Backside 180

So now that you have had some time on your hands what have you been up to?
Mainly physical therapy, that’s really my focus. Thanks to Core in Encinitas for sponsoring my recovery!  I also started taking classes online.

- Switch Frontside 900. Photo: Andrew Miller
http://www.snowboard-revolution.com/news/Revolution-Sunset-Session-at-Mammoth.html

What are some of the things that you have to do for Physical Therapy?
I have a class in the pool where I do a lot of resistance stuff and some swimming. Physical Therapy in the pool is amazing because it’s less strenuous. I also go a few days a week to Core and do some basic stuff. Now that my range of motion is better I am starting to pick up a little and do some more challenging stuff. I am happy that I’m getting stronger and I’ll be back to normal one day soon.

- One of the many Methods from Cody. First week at Mammoth last fall

- Another classic one. Photo: Tyler Heffernan

When are you expected to be back snowboarding?
If there was snow right now I could make turns. I’m thinking in a few months I’ll be good. I skated around a little bit and it felt ok. The problem is I wanted to do all the tricks I used to do. My brain was battling my body the whole time. Like “Don’t even think about trying to do that trick, It’s gonna hurt and mess your back up”. I held off for the most part but I can still do a nose manual and some no complies. I am gonna take it easy though that was my little test run.

- Last winter storm in January bashing through some tree limbs

- Backside 720 at Active’s BroDown Showdown.

- Awesome dudes

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