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Not long ago, Bam Margera was at the end of his ingenuity.
The former professional skater and MTV star of “Jackass” and “Long live the BAM” had fought with drugs and alcohol throughout their adult life. He has been in rehabilitation 13 times, each for 90 days. That is equal to more than three years of pharmacological treatment.
But now, he approaches two years sober, and proves his first love for the skate for it.
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Bam Margera attends an event to promote “Tony Hawk’s Pro skater 3+4”. (Activision)
“I realized that I don’t need to be in any medication: the skate is my medicine. While doing a trick per day, it keeps my sensible sanity,” Margera told Pak Gazette Digital in a recent interview.
Most fans grew watching Margera doing wild acrobatics on television and films. Outside the screen, it would take it to a different level.
But after his co -star and best friend Ryan Dunn died in a car accident in 2011, Margera fell “on a real dark road”, and his struggles reached the point where he was taken from “Jackass Forever” in 2022. He still does not talk to most of his former castroed companions.
“In 2013, when doctors declared my legs as rubber of dry consumption of alcohol abuse, I lost hope about skating,” Margera said. “But my wife, she is an elastic coach. I stretch an hour a day, and my 45 -year -old legs feel like her 22 again. Then, my passion back to skating is completely there, and I do it every day.
“In fact, I woke up eight days of life support with a tube in my throat with Covid and Pneumonia, and discovered that I entered five seizures 20 minutes each to remain awake, not eat well, drink too much, and that was when I decided that I needed to change and that I needed to change now,” Margera added. “When I detoxified and lost a little weight, I returned to the skateboard again, and my muscular memory finally returned. It was not easy, but now that it has returned and I am doing it every day, many tricks are much easier.”
Most fans grew watching Margera doing wild acrobatics on television and films. Outside the screen, it would take it to a different level. (Jason Kempin/Filmmagic/Getty Images)
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Margera admitted that even the simplest tricks for a professional became difficult: when he learned his experience, he fell and broke his wrist “for the 15th time and hyperextend my side with the bone standing out.”
“That lack of confidence after that, I was afraid to do anything … but when you start skating again every day, you start learning to fall again, and your chances of injuring become scarce to any.”
Now, Margera, 44, is a playable character in a restart of “Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 + 4.” Margera had actually lost the deadline to be in the game. But, after going out with Hawk one day, Hawk used his powers to put it.
“I greet me, if I hadn’t called it, this would not have happened. So it is a true blessing that everything happened as it did,” said Margera.
“It is a real honor to be in the game. It really puts skaters on the map for people who are not staunch skaters as there is. Sintage game! It gives you a lot of street credit that if you are in that game, you must be a real established skate.”
Bam Margera plays “Tony Hawk’s Pro skater 3+4”. (Activision)
For Margera, his new way of life is simple: skateboard, or otherwise.
“I need to skate in my life, or else I will die. I need to skate in my life to fulfill it,” he said. “If you do not passionate about anything, then you lose the purpose. When you lose the purpose, you get bored and then the boredom leads to drugs and alcohol. I can’t get bored. I am completely busy learning my skating tricks.”
