Adolf "Loco" Silva has been sharing his new life with spinal cord injury with the bike community since his second day in hospital. In his videos, you can see him practising sitting up, getting dressed, getting into the car and much more. He also shows himself motocrossing with his buddies, with his wife and dog or playing wheelchair rugby with other paraplegics. He rarely says anything in his vlogs, the pictures speak for themselves. He is fully committed to his goal of regaining as much independence as possible.

However, a few days ago he published a new episode in which he answers what he considers to be the most important questions that people have sent him. Only he and the people who asked him know which questions he doesn't take into account. One thing is for sure, he doesn't avoid difficult topics. For example, he says that the double flip that was his undoing at the Red Bull Rampage 2025 was planned and that he was one hundred percent sure that he would be able to do it. "Maybe I didn't pull hard enough on the handlebars, maybe I wasn't fast enough - who knows?"

Since the Rampage 2018, he has had the double backflip in the back of his mind, he continues, but back then his people held him back because he had never attempted one before. Things were different in 2025: "I tried it at home." It remains unclear whether he only tried it at his training ground in Spain or whether he also stood up. And from a drop as high as the one in Utah, he is once again in a different league.

No feeling from the chest down

After his fall, he was fully conscious at all times and immediately noticed that he could no longer feel anything from the chest down. The thoracic vertebrae T2 and T3 were dislocated and broken, and he had severe pain in his upper back. He was operated on in hospital for between five and six hours. "They put my back back in place, straightened it and stiffened the spine from T2 to T6 with two plates and several screws."

On the subject of possible treatments and his prognosis, he says that there is no treatment for his spinal cord injury that has been proven to work, i.e. to restore the function of the spinal cord. However, there are many interesting things and people have described interesting approaches to him in their messages. There are stem cell therapies and electrical stimulation of the nerves. "But it's all in the test phase and nothing has been proven to work." He doesn't give a prognosis: "Doctors don't like to say: 'You'll never be able to walk again'. But at the moment, the reality is that I'm in a wheelchair and can't walk. From here, we have to work, adapt, learn and see where the journey takes us." To do this, he trains five times a week from 10 am to 5 pm. It is obvious that Adolf Silva has found his new role in therapy and is approaching it with the training zeal of a top athlete.

Many people have asked how he is doing mentally. "I feel mentally stronger than ever, regardless of what happened. I feel super good and I'm super motivated to keep going." Silva says these sentences seriously, his gaze always going straight to the camera. He doesn't reveal how hard it is to stay positive. The hardest thing for him is that he can no longer go to the toilet on his own. "From my chest down, nothing works anymore. It [going to the toilet] happens differently now and is super difficult," he explains, without going into detail. Even getting dressed, getting from bed to a wheelchair or getting into a car is a pain in the ass.

The question of questions is whether he regrets attempting the risky jump on one of the biggest and most dangerous features of the Rampage course. Silva, who doesn't allow any negative thoughts, at least in public, says: "No, I don't regret it and would try the double flip again in the same situation. I could have stood the trick and something could have happened to me later. It makes no sense for me to think: 'I shouldn't have done that'. There's only one way for me now, I can only move forward."