Former rodeo athlete says bodybuilding helped him recover from brain injury

Dave Potter was working at a Kamloops country bar when his friends convinced him to try rodeo. Falling in love with the sport, he became a bareback rider and bull rider.

“I was pretty consistently damaged,” he said. “It wasn’t debilitating until the final one, the brain injury.”

A run-of-the-mill incident in rodeo changed his life forever.

He was bucked off a horse, and suffered a brain injury that caused him to get dizzy when he walked for more than