{"id":7009,"date":"2018-03-05T16:43:41","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T16:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/muckmedden.co.uk\/?p=7009"},"modified":"2018-03-05T16:45:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T16:45:18","slug":"this-way-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muckmedden.co.uk\/2018\/03\/05\/this-way-up\/","title":{"rendered":"This Way Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re Stoked (on MS) to be screening “This Way Up” in the Pedal-Powered Cinema at Cream o’ the Croft this year! \u00a0<\/em><\/h3>\n

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MS (Multiple Sclerosis) is a subject that’s very close to our heart here at Muckmedden, so it gives us great pleasure to be showing Andy McKenna’s superb “This Way Up” film in the Pedal-Powered Cinema at Cream o’ the Croft<\/a> on June 15th!\u00a0 We hope you’ll join us for the full-length charity screening of this fantastic short film.<\/p>\n

We also need you to provide the leg-power for the cinema! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Shortlisted by Vancouver and Kendal International Mountain Film Festival\u2019s and now on worldwide tour, this fantastic short film tells the story of professional mountain bike guide Andy McKenna’s pharma-free face-off with Multiple Sclerosis and his quest for a holistic path to health.<\/p>\n

First time filmmaker Andy McCandlish worked with Andy (the other Andy) to share a \u2018broken’ man\u2019s journey by bike through his homeland.\u00a0 Scotland.\u00a0 Through the film, McKenna and McCandlish share what they found.<\/p>\n

Andy, a professional mountain bike guide, needs to keep on riding bikes and continue living an active life after becoming acquainted with this menacing disease in 2007. The film launches the next chapter of Andy\u2019s \u2018Stoked on MS<\/a>\u2019 mission to raise awareness and support for the two unsung heroes who helped Andy gain control of this disease, and his life, through diet, rest, exercise and lifestyle changes; The Swank Foundation\u00a0<\/a> and Over Coming MS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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The impetus for following this path is largely down to the research, inspiration and support of these two organisations who made Andy fundamentally question the status-quo around MS treatment and whether it was right for him.\u00a0 Andy\u2019s been a mountain biker since the 1980s and a professional mountain bike guide making his living from running mountain bike adventures in Scotland with Go Where<\/a>.\u00a0 He was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in 2007 and, although he didn\u2019t know it then, far from being the end of his mountain bike career and his life, this (apparently) incurable degenerative neurological disease was the start of a different kind of mountain bike journey.<\/p>\n

A hysterical, ridiculous, rewarding, precious one.<\/p>\n

Everyone experiences challenges in life.\u00a0 Some get buried under the veneer of a normal existence.\u00a0 Facebook selfies and glorious Instabangers don\u2019t always tell the whole story.\u00a0 Finding the connection between the realities of life and how we deal with them – when coping from behind handlebars is the primary tactic – and will hopefully strike a chord with many whether they ride or not.\u00a0 Biking helps to cope, to escape and to keep Andy sane.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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