{"id":162236,"date":"2021-12-10T21:19:14","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T04:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=162236"},"modified":"2021-12-10T21:19:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-11T04:19:14","slug":"snow-ski-video-nerve-a-true-story-about-american-freeskier-colby-stevenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=162236","title":{"rendered":"Snow Ski Video &#8211; &#8220;NERVE&#8221; &#8211; A True Story About American Freeskier Colby Stevenson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Nerve&#8217; is a true story about 24-year-old U.S. Freeski Team rider Colby Stevenson from Park City, Utah, overcoming traumatic brain injury and rehabilitation after a near-career ending car crash in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The gifted skier suffered multiple skull fractures in the crash and doctors had little hope for a full recovery, let alone freestyle skiing on a professional level. Over the coming months, Stevenson endured vertigo and memory problems, but showed the will to power through the ordeal. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy whole dream, everything was over. I might not ever be the same again, but I always had hope,\u201d said Stevenson, who prevailed to make X Games history and win two 2020\/21 FIS Freeski Crystal Globes, in the new documentary. \u201cBefore the crash, I did not see how lucky I was. Once it was all taken away, I started seeing the beauty in the little things. I started to be grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Produced by Monster Energy, \u201cNerve\u201d was written and directed by professional freeski athlete and filmmaker Clayton Vila. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/voFwhjbmk94\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Nerve&#8217; is a true story about 24-year-old U.S. Freeski Team rider Colby Stevenson from Park City, Utah, overcoming traumatic brain injury and rehabilitation after a near-career ending car crash in 2016. The gifted skier suffered multiple skull fractures in the crash and doctors had little hope for a full recovery, let alone freestyle skiing on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,4,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skiing","category-snow","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162237,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162236\/revisions\/162237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}