Career
He now resides in London, Ontario. In 2007, the helicopter he was piloting crashed into a field near Cambridge, Ontario and he now lives with quadriplegia. He played hockey and golf before he was disabled.
Ideson is married and has 2 children, a nine-year-old daughter and a six-year-old son.
He went to the University of Western Ontario. He was also a former Mustangs Cheerleader.
After graduating university, he became a helicopter pilot and was introduced to curling in 2010 at the age of 33. In 2007, during a maintenance flight, his helicopter crashed into a field near Cambridge, Ontario.
He broke 29 bones during the process.
500 metres away, Daniel Hermann, an eight-year-old boy saw this and went to his mother to call 9-1-1. The ambulance arrived shortly after within 20 minutes. Ideson said “I had rehearsed for seven years what I was going to say to a kid that essentially saved my life.
I could never really put it to words".