BRAVE teenager Jon Jo Look is walking again just two months after he lost his lower leg in a horrific explosion in Weymouth.

The talented young boxer suffered serious injuries in the blast in Littlemoor this May, which caused a foot-wide hole in his bedroom wall.

Doctors first fought to save his life, then had to amputate his leg below his right knee, after the explosion occurred when the youngster tried to refill an air horn with carbon dioxide gas.

Jon Jo, 17, who was named this year’s Best Junior Boxer at Weymouth Amateur Boxing Club, pledged to ‘walk and fight’ again.

Now, after weeks of rest and physiotherapy and three casting sessions, the teenager’s first goal has come true with the help of a carbon-fibre prosthetic sports leg.

After weeks of dreaming about walking, Jon Jo joked that it felt good to be ‘6ft 2in again on both sides’ and said: “I’m proud of my new leg, the walking motion is amazing.

“It’s one of the newest ones out and it’s a sporting fit.

“Most of them don’t have a heel to it but this one does, so I can walk better with it.”

The teenager will be getting used to the temporary leg over six or seven months while a more permanent limb is created.

He surprised staff at Bournemouth prosthetics centre with how quickly he took to it.

“I just got up and walked to the end of the room and back like I’d been wearing it for years,” he said.

“They were surprised by that.

“It feels like my actual leg. The only difference is it’s like a numb leg, but when I look down it’s there and when I lean on it, it’s there.

“People made out that it was really bad to lose your leg and to have a prosthetic one but I don't think it’s that bad.

“I’m not allowed to do too much on it at the moment, just two or three hours a day – an hour at a time.”

Jon Jo is also happy to have had the metal pins taken out of his right hand, which suffered nine breaks in the explosion.

Doctors used skin from his calf muscle to repair his right knee and Jon Jo said as well as the ‘phantom leg feeling’, if anyone touched his right knee it felt like they were touching his missing calf. His next goal is to be walking without crutches.

The unstoppable teenager has been riding his scrambling motorbike, a 250cc Yamaha YZ, with the help of his friends in motocross fields at Maiden Newton, despite only having one leg.

He intends to take his driving test to drive an automatic car and when he is ‘more mobile’ he will return to the boxing ring at Hardwick Street, where boxing club president David Nelmes has also offered him judging and refereeing courses. Another goal is to look into courses at Kingston Maurward College.

Jon Jo thanked his family and friends who had been so supportive since his accident and said: “Everyone’s been really good, I’ve just carried on as normal really.”

He has also made a new friend in 14-year-old Kyron Heward, of Dorchester, who lost his leg aged two to meningitis after Kyron’s mum Denise contacted the Echo.

Denise Heward said: “Jon Jo had a really positive attitude following his accident and I thought it would be good for Kyron to speak to someone else who had lost a leg at a young age.

“They’ve both been talking about what it’s like to have artificial legs and they’ve helped to support each other.

“Hopefully it's the start of a good friendship.”