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keenfish

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May 12, 2002
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Ditched my board and swam straight into a rock reef on a big set breaking in front of me at Leo (at least 8’). 35 stitches to close up a 7” flap of skin from my forehead to behind right ear. That was a stupid mistake on my part. Thanks to the guys in the lineup helping, lifeguards and fire department
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Got damm stu glad you're alright bru!!

You don't look anything like your ava btw. :)

Get well and stay well. :shaka:
 
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Subway

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Dec 31, 2008
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sunrise yoga this morning on the beach right down the block, mrs subway teaching, 9 other students besides myself!! then a good vigorous swim afterwards. not a bad Monday morning. Ocean is flat of course.
 

Chocki

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Feb 18, 2007
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one wave and it was just only ok. session was maybe 30 minutes. was planning on catching a wave and moving down to the middle. thought I was out far enough on the paddle back out and then a bomb set came and broke just in front of me. either it was try to duck dive it or ditch & swim. I chose wrong.
sh!t happens. Stocked you didn’t break your neck. It would suck to be reading how Studog drowned.
 
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rice

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Jul 2, 2002
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Ditched my board and swam straight into a rock reef on a big set breaking in front of me at Leo (at least 8’). 35 stitches to close up a 7” flap of skin from my forehead to behind right ear. That was a stupid mistake on my part. Thanks to the guys in the lineup helping, lifeguards and fire department
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Ouch, bummer. Sorry!
 

Mr Doof

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Jan 23, 2002
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A friend cut up his foot on the 3rd slipping on a rock on the way out. He thinks the barnacles got him. Said the way back to the car was a chore, getting to the hospital was terrible*, and the clean out in the emergency room had him blacking out from pain (says he isn't sure if they gave him a shot for pain or not).

Don't have the open wound photo, do have the post stitch photo:

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* - I wonder how he is going to like cleaning out the driver's side floor mat.
 

Boneroni

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Mar 5, 2012
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Ho lee fuk stu! Glad you're okay. I've played chicken with that rock too many times and simply gotten lucky.

I surfed on the 4th. Hopped a fence and hiked in to decent beach break. Saw a decent sized shark pretty early in the session, so I surfed the inside bar and drifted down to where other people were for a while.
Ended up doing 4 run arounds for probably 5-6 miles of walking total.
I'm glad I had a lot of time. It was one of those days where you see great waves everywhere but where you are. Probably a solid 3 hours of paddling to chase sets down and escape the rips.

I lucked into my share though :waving: