recognizes danger when he sees it. the cable is still swinging and he jumps in front of it taking the full force of the rebounding wire to the face. i remember being hit with it. after that, i don t remember anything until emergency people were around me asking how i was. doctors later tell him that if the wire had hit him a few inches lower, it could have killed him. the side of my face, by the corner of my eye right here, is still very sensitive. it looked like i had gone 12 rounds with a professional fighter. josh s injuries are far worse than al s. and i hit the ground, and i was like i opened my eyes, and i was knocked out. i kind of knew my femur was broke and my arm was messed up, but i didn t know my elbow was literally split wide open. like it busted right in half. two bones in my forearm were broken. my wrist fractured.
eight times before, this time josh doesn t have the chance to do a final check of the setup. i didn t no problems with it at all. like i could adjust and do it fine. but there s a happy medium on how stuff needs to be. especially in our sport. because we ve had buddies die just on regular stunts just out of nowhere. as josh readies for his opening jump, the master of ceremonies gets the crowd pumped up. and now, ladies and gentlemen it s supposed to be just a show, you know. put on a show for a crowd, and pray everything goes good. nothing bad happens. but something bad does happen. a large black cable hangs from the ceiling. it s not supposed to be there. and it s in the direct path of josh s motorcycle. i went to go jump through the bars, and i seen the cable. and as soon as i jumped, i went off and like it just was there. like in my sight. like it was like it looked like just a big line.
my shoulder blade. and there was internal damage in here that i could feel. but mostly it was just fractures, you know. multiple surgeries and several months later, josh is on the mend. i ended up getting some pins on my elbow that i think are holding my elbow cap thing together. and then i ve got a rod up in my femur. about like i think six screws and some wire holding that together. that s all drilled up into the hip bone, all the way up into the socket just about. still, his recovery isn t as fast as he d like it to be. they say i won t ride for six months. and it s like, come on. it just depends on how strong i can get in that time and rebuild stuff. josh isn t the only one ready to get back into the ring. despite yum yum the clown s injuries, he s not ready to retire the red nose just yet.
when i hit the cable to the point i hit the ground, it felt like it took about 20 seconds, just because everything went into slow motion. i thought i was just going to die, you know? another spectator captures the moment of impact. it was like dead silence at the time when i was going through the air. and then i hit that cable. and when i hit that, it felt like i had gotten hit in the head with like a truck or something, because it was so loud in my head. like it felt like just a bomb went off. and after that, it just i just zoned out, and was like, here we go. i m going. josh plummets 30 feet from midair, and smacks the ground. moments later, the emcee makes a stunning announcement. this is not part of the performance. al bezner is not a doctor, but he is a veteran of both the vietnam and gulf wars and he
accident, and it s all caught on camera by stunned spectators. february 5, 2012. the ninth and final show of the shrine circus in saginaw, michigan. what should be a routine ride for 20-year-old josh headford is anything but. a professional motocross rider, josh has plenty of experience with massive jumps and even greater risk. but the final act will end before it has a chance to even take off. we were the last act, and that s because it s the most dangerous. we re jumping metal to metal to tigers and horses on the landing side. and it was one of the sketchier jumps i ve ever jumped here, you know? and that was like i was ready to do it. although he s done the show