Tyler Blocker, just 17, has one thing in spades: a knack for making things happen on his own, warp-speed timeline, especially when skiing is involved. Just ask his dad — or his doctors.
Morgan High senior Tyler Blocker ruptured his spleen and lost his kidney a year before his selection for “Daymaker.”
Still, the Morgan High senior’s selection to appear alongside Olympian Johnny Moseley and pro freeskier Marcus Caston of Salt Lake City in a film produced by the granddaddy of ski flick makers came as a shock. Prior to the film, Blocker hadn’t won any major freeskiing contests, caught the eye of any big sponsors or generated much publicity. He didn’t even have a real coach. His dad technically held that title, but Blocker taught himself by studying films of other skiers.
Blocker’s first call was to his father, an anesthesiologist who left work early to pick him up. When Rob arrived, Blocker seemed just a little beaten up. Still, Rob thought it would be worth taking his son to the hospital to make sure he was OK. As he helped his son stand up to walk to the car, Blocker went limp.
When Blocker went in for a checkup a couple of weeks later, his doctors were both furious and fascinated. By then, Blocker estimates, he was 95% recovered.
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