4pm…
At a street
corner, at the end of the world, minutes from the beach
He finally
knocks the door of the happy house.
It’s about the
couch!
He is like me.
I am like him.
We're
couchsurfers.
I kiss him,
it's normal we are from the same tribe.
That day, Jamie
is offering a home sweet home to both of us.
Me for few
weeks.
Bastien for one
night.
He moves in. We
start to discuss
and the
connection is made.
It was no more
a simple click.
The virtual
connection died in the blink of an eye.
Reality built
the connection.
From human to
human.
He told me
everything.
My eyes shone.
Before me, a
rare man...
An extra-ordinary
man holding the flame of freedom and life.
Bastien is
Magic: Bastos is a magician.
Magic Bastos is
a super man
He has the
power to change the established order.
The power to
impose his view on life.
The power to
say Yes to life.
Yes to dreams.
Yes to the
extreme.
He rolls,
rolls, rolls across the world.
He rolls
because his legs have fallen asleep and
He has every
intention of not letting sleepiness take
possession of
his body and his life.
Deprived from
the use of his legs when he flirted with the wind,
Magic Bastos
decided to take off otherwise.
« Magic
Bastos » is a life run at hundred miles an hour,
Magic Bastos,
it is several lifetimes in one life.
Until he was 27
years, he looked like any ordinary man in the world
with his dreams,
with his follies, with his own small passions and his great passion.
Sport was the
love of his life.
Day after day
he was playing and flirting with all sports.
Orgasmic.
Fanatic Kite
surfer, he flew up very high, too high.
Loved by the
waves, adored by the wind, the passion was brutal.
The wind swept
away Bastien through gusts.
Projected onto
the cement, Bastien legs gave up on him.
Bastien, the
ordinary man, became an instant paraplegic.
The doctor’s
first words stab Bastien in the heart.
"You can
not walk"
Bastien was in
Shock.
It was a
precipice. A shout.
"Sport is
my life. If I can ever do
then
shoot me a ball in the head right now "
The ordinary
man was not considering the extraordinary man who was sleeping in him.
And Magic
Bastos regained control quickly and brought Bastien back on the track of life
in few days.
"Your life
is magic Bastien, so now you’re not going to do without me" whispered
Magic Bastos.
That fatal Kite
Surf accident revealed to the world that Bastien was not Mister Anybody:
He will now be
100% Magic Bastos and he will roll all prejudices.
Until now,
Bastien had lived all the possibles.
From now, Magic
Bastos would target all the impossibles.
The wheelchair
will help him to reach those impossibles.
Before 2005,
Bastien dreamed the Xgames ,
as a dream to
remain a dream of the ordinary man.
Magic Bastos
crossed the barrier of the dream. He had to be part of it.
In 2008, he was
athlete at the Xgames.
Before 2005,
Bastien dreamed of long journeys.
In 2008, Magic
Bastos climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in his wheelchair.
Before he
continued flying high and start to roll his own world in 2010 for 6 months,
solo,
To meet men,
women, ordinary, extraordinary, on two legs or on two wheels.
And show the
world that the mind constructs its own barriers that flight is within reach of
everyone, because in each of us lies a Magic Bastos, ready to roll the world.
Let those who
are on his path beware because
An encounter
with Magic Bastos could disrupt your ideas
and give you
wings to take parallel paths and targeting the impossible.
2007:
- 1st handicapped skier to participate in the Derby
Meije
2008
- Climb Kilimanjaro
2009:
- 1st French boarder to participate in the XGames in
sit skiing - Aspen USA
- Vice World Champion of Boating handiski.
- Champion of France sitting wakeboarding on cable
water ski.
2010:
- Trip around the world, solo, without
assistance for 6 months & 8 countries.
