‘Not Always Rock and Roll’
Mr Matt Crowhurst, professional wakeboarder and Relentless sponsored rider, offers a slightly different view on what the grind can look like for a pro athlete on the road. BUT still with that same sense of when your efforts pay out the suffering is worth it for the feeling of total personal satisfaction you get from nailing it in the end ... 'No Half Measures' on and off the water.
"If I had a pound for every person that commented on my fortunate lifestyle, well, I’d be even more fortunate I guess. Yep, I’m bloody lucky, I know it and appreciate everyday I spend living it. Its not all rock and roll though - he says typing from his Hotel room in Ibiza - but there is a certain amount of daily grind that goes with the territory which most, pretty much everyone doesn’t see. Most people don’t see it because I live my life on the road, worldly belongings in the back of my car, couch here, couch there and a good bit of elbow grease in places, all behind the scenes so that my riding is the focus in the public eye, just the way I want it. Now involved with putting my own events together I’ve realised that they only work through a large amount of effort by a good few people, Animal Windfest was the most recent and a perfect case, with lots of hard work by all including me spending a couple of days up to my nuts in S!*T retrieving slider materials and pool liners on my todd.
OK, so the long short of it is that none of you are feeling sorry for me with regard to this day of hard work when most of you out there a part of the daily grind anyway, my point is that a lot of peops who are ‘living the dream’ have put and continually put a load of effort in somewhere at some point to get where they’ve got as well as putting up with certain things too. Whether it means not being quite sure whether you’ve got enough fuel money to get you to your next event, not knowing where you staying when you get there. Putting your own event on to push your sport in the direction you want it to go or working, saving, riding…working, saving, riding!
The grind is always there somewhere but doing your own thing on the road, makes the sweet that bit sweeter!
-MC"
