Gretchen Bleiler - It took me a full year of black eyes and a bruised and battered tailbone to

It took me a full year of black eyes and a bruised and battered tailbone to learn how to do a crippler in the half-pipe. It was a trick that no one else was really doing, and it was scary! But I stuck with it, and one day, it finally clicked. The crippler has been my signature trick ever since, and it's what helped me be so successful in competition.

- Gretchen Bleiler

topic: Eye, Successful, Years, Bruised, Battered, Black Eyes