twisted my knee surfing
it was about 2 mins after getting in the sea. Paddling out, went over a wave, must have flicked my legs up or something. All of a sudden agony coming from my knee. Could barely walk. Took about a year to properly recover and still gets twinges now and then.

Not as bad as my mrs who got hit in the face by her own board. I had to take her to hospital to be glued back together. If she hadn't been so calm after it happened I would have lost it. There was so much blood coming out of her face.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 11:44, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I'm glad she's ok now
as I laugh at anything that involves face hitting.

Which is why I laugh at Lampito so much
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 11:46, Reply)

it really looked like she'd been punched in the eye
while we were waiting in the hospital some old dude came in who had cut his finger off pruning the roses or something. He went round the group of people there asking who was in for what. Got to my mrs, looked at her, looked at her face, looked at me and then moved on.

I spent two weeks with everyone looking at me like I was beating my mrs.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 11:50, Reply)

you should have shouted at him in your best camp voice
"Don't judge me dhaarrrling, I'm saving her!"

Or made her wear clown makeup
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 11:53, Reply)

haha
if it ever arises again I will do just that
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 11:53, Reply)

I just had Rio come out of my nose (not Ferdinand, the drink)
reading this "I had to take her to hospital to be glued back together" I had a very strange mental image.

Best surfing injury ever was my mate Smithy running back up to the car with board underarm but not having released his safety line which caught on the top step at Puttsborough catapaulting him down to the bottom.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 11:54, Reply)

that does sound excellent.
the injuries I have experience with have been a bit horrific tbh.

My old colleague got a fin across her face, slashed up her cheek, over her eye and up her forehead. Escaped without a scar.

another mate of mine had an experience almost exactly the same. Brand new razor sharp fins, slashed his cheek right open. Took them 4 hours to sew him up again.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 11:57, Reply)

Face cutting is horrid. A friend of mine got hit by a flying tent peg that pinged out of the ground
and now has a 6 inch scar running across his face.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 12:04, Reply)

ouch

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 12:06, Reply)

^this

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 12:10, Reply)

it was horrible, In Croyde, tents all set up about to go to the beach
his missus rushes back in the tent to get her bag, trips, putting all her weight on the back of the tent which pulled the guide ropes out and *PING* *SLASH* *AAAAARRRGH* he dropped like a bastard with blood pissing out between his fingers.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 12:18, Reply)

That is awful.
If you're going to have a scar you at least want a story of heroic derring-do about how you got it.
Like the one I have on the middle digit of my left hand, from bravely opening a tin of tomato soup. There were no easy ring pull tops or electric can openers back in those days. Yeah, hardcore.
(Cave Duck, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 12:10, Reply)

I have a similar one in the webbing of my left hand
from vaulting a spiked fence to retrieve a frisbee.

Sorry, from bravely fighting off a knife-wielding thug who was mugging a lovely old granny. WIth my bare hands. Yeah. That was definitely it.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 12:14, Reply)

I have a burn scar which will fit the shape of any Seat Ibiza key.

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 27 Sep 2010, 12:19, Reply)