well.. i was a a shore breaking wave in Kiama called Kendalls took off got nailed got a bit of water up my nose,that was alright, went to duck dive the next wave held my nose and as i went under it the pressure of the water burst both my ear drums,the most pain i have ever experienced in my life!!!there is more but i'll save some for later

now some times i have to wear ear plugs due to it causing ear aches!! I cant really hear my mates when i'm in the water hahaha

whats yours ???

I've got a nasty scar on my knee cap from an accident on an escalator...I was running the wrong way up & racing my brother. I tripped, fell and the jagged edge of it just bit straight into my knee...you can see the shape of the escalator step in the scar!
As soon as it happened I sat and looked at it and could see bone & nearly passed out. Ended up with 12 stitches i think...and passed out twice from looking at it. Its not like I was a kid either, I was 25 when I did it! haha so dumb!

Got a couple of nasty scars from the first time I surfed redsands & I got shredded like a cheese grater - one behind my knee and one on my upper arm.

Redsands??Shellharbour?? thats one of my local breaks

Shoulda been bogus boarding the escalator Cords, then it would be a more worthy battle wound.

Since Eddie set a standard, I'll only post one wound at a time (being an old bugga I got a few)

Surfing in a clean 2'-3' at Culburra Beach slipped off the front of my board while trying to take off on a really easy wave. The day before was 4'-6', dolphins out, epic day so had walked 2km from where we stay in the dark to find the size was way down. Anyway, as I slipped forward the nose of my board dug into my ribs then the push of the wave caught my board. I didn't feel much more than some pressure from the board pushing me through the water into the sand. When I came up and took a breath OH MY GOD! Two broken ribs! When I made it to the shore and my full weight came into effect I couldn't walk, so crawled up the sand. Once I didn't need to breath heavily tried to carry my board 200m up the beach. I say tried because it was a very slow, lonely struggle. In the car park I was facing a 2km hike. Luckily a local surfer had seen me struggling, stopped to offer help and drove me back where again lady luck was on hand and I had some old Panadine Forte in my supply.

I can still feel the ribs +10yr on.

Swallow tail to the head at about 7-8 years of age, 8 stitches above the eye.

Ate shit pretty bad and had my legs flicked behind me by the lip while my head was buried in the bottom, legs went numb and my lower back was rooted for about a week, never went to the Dr so not sure what it was.

Board in the ribs in Hawaii, had xrays but seemed to be just bruised.

Buggered a floater and type two tear of my medial ligament was the result

On a clubby board one time got a wave and pushed myself back to take the drop, one of the bolts on the straps on the rails got wedged between two toes, got bounced rolled off and the wave pushed the board on and I stopped pulling the bolt through my foot, 10 external and 2 internal stitches, could see the bones of my foot before it started pissing blood.

Copped the nose of my board in the back, 4 stitches and one very pissed of Dad as I had borrowed his new wetsuit and put some extra ventilation in it.

Pulled my neck really badly after pulling into a closeout and headbutting the sandbank, couldnt turn my head at all for a couple of weeks and hurt for a long time after that.

Burst ear drum after late drop on bomb set on 6-8ft day went wrong. One of the scariest injuries, complete and utter loss of balance and sense of direction. Not great when you've just fallen out of the lip on an 8ft set onto your ear and your getting a what would've been a solid beating in it's own right. No idea which way was up and had a mega battle fighting the rising panic, had to just bide my time till i floated to the surface. Very very lucky that there wasnt another set for a few minutes, my balance was that farked I couldnt even manage to llie or hold on my board, a mate paddled in and had to hold me on my board. Took a fair while to equalise to the point where I could get myself in on a wave prone. By the time I got to the beach I was in some pretty serious pain, took a fair while to get better.

Not a direct injury but all my years in and around the water necessitated an ear drilling. Actually went deaf in my right ear for a couple of months cause the bone had grown across far enough to mean that a drop of water once in wasn't coming out. Not a nice op, couldn't find anyone in NSW who would do the ear canal version so ended up having the old way, cut the ear just about off, fold it forward and then drill the bone out. Was on some pretty awesome pain killers for a while after that one!

Literally hundreds of reef cuts, scrapes, etc, few concussions

once out redsands i was the only one left in the take off zone just chilling out looking at the headland when i turned around and was staring into the face of a 6ft wave(kinda dumb not paying attention but i was tired after a night out). Copped that to the head, snapped rope, a few bumps and bruises and a decent swim into the rocks to find my board.

Skipped school once back in the day to score 6ft+ kendalls beachy. strangely the most painful ones were the smaller waves...

Got smoked out at Bombora(near kendalls) once and prob wont go out there again!

umm got a decent smashing at shark island a few times, add that with the crowds i prob wont go there again anytime soon.

And probably the scariest wipeout i have had was in 1 ft shit, was riding a lil shore breaker and landed head first into the sand, heard a snap and couldnt feel my legs for a solid 10-15 seconds. I didnt go surfing after that for a few months, freaked me out hard!

and thats just the surfing ones, i have snowboarding/motorbike/pushbike/wakeboarding/tubing wounds but i will leave them for another day!