Wakeboarding at age 50 with a degenerative back condition is a calculated risk that should be taken now due to limited future opportunities.

“I have a cartilage disappearing in L3 L4 right bones are hitting each other so I'm they I'm I'm Vis against doing impact things and I was 50 years old in the islands and guys were goingon to go wakeboarding I was like I don't want to go I don't want to go I'm going to hang out on the beach I'm going to Loaf and I thought about it for a second I said I don't have many wakeboarding times left like I'm not going wakeboarding at 60 right I have a I have this degener of back thing you know caros you know it's going to be more dangerous for me Etc if I am to wakeboard it has to be now it is now it is in this time period”