I Crashed My Motorcycle… Here’s What I Learned

What's going on? Coach Kyle here, your fitness coach. And a very common question I've been asked in the past. Actually doesn't have to do with fitness. What happened to my knees? So, if you can see here, it's pretty scarred up. This knee's a lot worse. This one's actually not bad at all. I'll put a photo of what happened on the screen. And that was about a week or two later after I had been getting it all fixed up and trying to take care of it. I had to bandage it a ton. But I get asked a lot about what actually happened to my knee, right? Because even to this day when I play volleyball, I consistently will reopen the scar that I have and it starts to bleed which is super frustrating. But bring it back to about 8 years ago. I got my motorcycle license. So Josh, myself and a couple buddies, we would consistently go out for some amazing long rides on the back roads for hours. And I was a new motorcycle rider. So Josh growing up, he was a very comfortable rider. We'd always ride together. you know, he did dirt bike racing uh a ton and so I was starting to learn. Obviously very far from it being, I guess you could say, a good rider, but I was starting to get the hang of it. Essentially, what had happened was Josh, myself, and a buddy Peter. There may have been others there, but I believe it was the three of us. We were out on a back road uh motorcycle ride. It was super chill. We were just enjoying the scenery. We had been out for quite a while, I believe. And what happened was we ended up missing a turn. So, our friend Peter, he was right in front of me. He stopped a little bit quicker realizing that he, you know, had missed the turn. He's very great at handling myself. I started to panic. And when I looked up, I realized that I was either about to go into him or I had to do something about it. And so, I hit the front and the back brake at the exact same time. I ended up spinning out quite a bit. I'll put the video on the screen so you can see it. Josh actually had a GoPro uh while we were riding Oh crap, dude. What happened? >> You good? You just shook up. >> Yeah. >> Shake the bucky off and grab his maybe. >> You good, man? >> I just >> I just pressed on it. I You >> had so much fun. >> I think so. >> Did you flip? >> I was doing circles. >> It's not bad. >> How you feeling, man? to ride at home, but you can do it now. >> Could have been worse, right? >> Why is the leg taking the first fall? >> Taking it like a champ, man. >> Taking a look at the carage. >> Yo, look at my jeans. >> Dang, dude. Glad you're good. At least At least it was slow. Yo, I I rolled like a bunch of times and my head smashed the concrete like 50 times. You >> feel fine headwise. >> That's fine. Just look. >> It definitely was quite a scary experience. I was 100% shooken up from it. I still rode afterwards, but uh at a certain point I just started to fall out of love with riding motorcycles. just got more into cars and, you know, heavily modded cars and that kind of became a little bit uh more fun for me and just safer. Uh especially for myself, I just found I wasn't the most confident rider and I would question a lot of things. I would ride a little bit timid and I feel like as a motorcycle rider, especially through the city and uh whatnot and no matter where you're at, you just always have to be on guard. you have to be, you know, really good at being able to handle and and, you know, just be on two wheels properly. So, you know, I just found that I wasn't enjoying it and I ended up hanging up the uh, you know, motorcycle helmet and uh, and the bike. But uh, that's pretty much the gist of it. Obviously, like like I said, very grateful to be here and uh, I've seen a lot worse in in many other videos, but once again, I get asked this question quite often as to what exactly happened. So, yeah, I mean, my main takeaway is just stay safe out there, ride with gear. Uh, so I was lucky. I did wear a motorcycle jacket. So my entire body, uh, upper body was totally fine. No problems at all. But as you see, um, the knees, I was just wearing jeans. And once again, just thinking nothing will ever happen to me. At least I wasn't wearing shorts and a t-shirt, anything like that. But hey, it happens. Uh, you know, obviously you learn from it. And, uh, that's the story. But, uh, if you are looking for fitness content, someone to help you on your fitness journey, make sure to subscribe if you're new to the channel and just coming across it. But now, one lesson I feel like I was leaving out that I really wanted to share, especially with this accident. It really did make me reflect and think about a bunch of uh different takeaways, and it's just that you never know how much time you have. So, make the most of what you have in front of you. And I know it's quite deep, but I do think about this often. I think about my mission. I think about what I want to accomplish. And one of my biggest goals when that time comes is to never be laying there just thinking of what I could have accomplished, what I could have fulfilled. because I know that so many people go through that. So, consistently daytoday, my goal is to take action to be able to help inspire people, to be a great person, to have amazing relationships, to have so much impact on everyone around me. And even the consistency of what we've built, Josh and myself, often times when I don't want to do something, I just think about how many people can be changed from that. And it's one of my deepest missions to be able to help inspire, impact, educate, and help people feel their absolute best day-to-day. And that's something that keeps me going. There's a reason why we have over 5,000 transformations. It's because I really want to be able to help support people. Even when it comes down to it, every podcast we've uploaded, we've done over 700 episodes, almost a thousand YouTube videos, 2,000 Instagram post, daily Instagram stories, it all comes back to just wanting to have an impact and wanting to be able to say, "Hey, when that time comes, obviously a little bit deep, I'm able to say, I made an impact. I'm able to be fulfilled with everything." So, kind of a deeper reflection, but just something to think about. Obviously, if someone's had a scare, it's a lot easier to have that thought process. But I really do believe it's something pretty powerful when you think, "Hey, there's going to be a certain point in my life where I'm not here. What do I want to accomplish? How do I want to do it?" And it can honestly be super motivating. So, that's definitely one of the things that gets me out of bed. So, a big lesson learned. Obviously, a little bit of a scary one, but I believe it can lead to huge impact down the road. So, thank you so much. Make sure to smash that like button if you enjoyed this video. We'll see you in the next one.