Maj Jepsen recovering after tearing her ACL and Meniscus

This season has been exciting and I’ve been very proud to repressend Stokes at all the pro – events around the world.

I’ve always been very serious about my skiing and will keep doing everything I can to improve. I live in a northern country with low temperatures, a lot of wind and rain. In order to keep up with my strong competitors i ”escape” to Florida every spring and fall, and take advantage of the perfect conditions. I feel very lucky to be able to do what I love every day!

The first tournaments this season was in Australia in March, we had 3 in a row. I made it to the finals in all 3, I ended up 6th at Moomba Masters, 2nd at the World Cup in Mandurah and 4th at Perth Night Jump.

The prestigues US Masters was again a great experience. The level was higher then ever this year, it took more than 52 meters to make the cut to the finals and I ended up 5th, first one out.

I always aim to get a podium finish and was finally on a very promissing track at the past tournament Malibu Open in downtown Milwaukee, USA. In the semifinals I jumped 51,2 meters but got super unlucky and twisted my right knee in the landing. I was close to ride away from the jump but had to let go of the handle in the end. An MRI showed a torn ACL and damaged meniscus.

That message was sad to get, but it’s an injury a lot of skiers have had and we are all aware of the risk. It’ll take about 1 year to get back on track. It is a long time but worse things could have happened. I’ll be very serious with my rehab and make sure I get back even stronger. I had surgery already and now I can only get better:)

The night before I injured my knee at Malibu Open I was nominated in the category “Female jumper of the year” at The Waterski Avards. Natallia Berdnikava got the title but I was happy to be mentioned and at least it was a cool way to “finish” off my 2012 season

Maj in her stokes gear

Maj in her stokes gear

Maj getting set at the start of her career

Maj getting set at the start of her career