Bashas' new gash!!! (Not for the faint hearted)

Back foot slipped of board whilst bottom turning at Boranup WA saturday morning. Went down on the board and got thrown around like a rag doll in the wave and made contact with the board pretty hard under my armpit. I was lucky not to smash my ribs and thought i had only sustained bruising, there was no hole in my wetsuit!!!!!!

Trip to Margrett River Hospital 2 stitches inside the wound and 5 to close it up. Made it to the Tavern for a nice cold pint of Coopers pale and just in time to watch Western Force V QLD Reds.

Mate that looks so nasty , must have hurt like hell.

Not good mate the 8/5 for sale now Galvo has those soft boards with rubber fins he recons they go all right but he dose love the whopper wedge was great the 7/4 rush the easiest board I have ever surfed fun waves .catch you later look arter that gash

Well you did warm me about looking....

I feel your pain.I was on a weekend away with 8 mates when I copped a nasty fin chop last month. A late take off resulted in a big nose dive, I wasn't sure where my board was so I wrapped my arms over my head just in time for the board to come back at me fins first. Felt my fin go straight into my arm & then my head. I got out of the water pretty quick to find my arm sliced open & my head bleeding.

We were on a deserted beach about 1 hour from a hostpital on unsealed roads.

Ended up with 9 stitches in the arm & 4 in the head. Pretty lucky that I covered my head or it could have been alot worse.






I couple of Cooper pale helped ease my pain that night too.

yes the fin chop is not a nice thing. glad to be surfing again after 3 months out. get better soon boys