Life After Dingo | How Snowboarding’s Favorite Sidekick Found His Grind
The story of Dingo aka Luke Trembath is a wild one that almost had a tragic end. But the Aussie mouth overcame depression and other battles to come out on top, mostly through helping others with Find Your Grind Foundation. He’s come along way since the Danny Kass/Grenade days…
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“From there, shit took off fast. Living out of backpacks. Going school to school to school talking to kids. And remember that depression? Turns out everyone gets bummed. So Dingo opened up, got real and started talking to kids about his daily battle with depression. First, to a room of about 10 kids, all who have by this point tried to end it all or have had serious thoughts about the big sleep. No questions, he knew this was “his new calling” as he referred to it. But it’s a two-way street. This was as much therapy for him as it was for the kids. They needed to hear it all. They needed to know about the grueling mountain of daily expectations that the Dingo was crushed by—maintaining his image, the do-this-and-that’s of being “the dingo.” They needed to know about him tossing back a handful of pills and waking up in the hospital, still alive. They needed to know everything because nobody relates to some asshole that hasn’t been through it all but gives advice like they have. The way Dingo saw it, “if you tell your story and save one kid’s life and then 10 kids’ lives, that’s what you’ve got to do.” Without much notice, that room of 10 turned into speaking in front of 10,000 kids that needed to hear that they’re not alone in this shit storm.”
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