WipeOut Stories

[LovintheSurf]

Hey well i thought it would be intresting if you guys told ur biggest wipestories. I personally dont really have any, but since this is my thread ill contribute with a skateboarding incident. Okay so ive found a nice five stair. I automatically think its not to big, so ima try to hardflip off of it. Oh and a hardflip is where the board goes between ur legs and kinda does a complete backflip, like the nose of the board goes up 90 degrees, and then goes over another 90' degrees in a vertical manner, so that when u land the tail is now where the nose usually is, and the nose is where the tail is, so u land the board backwards. Sorry if that didnt make any sense. Anyway midway through the air the board hits my leg and stops its vertical rotation right in between my legs, i immediatley realize im fleshin'. and before i have anymore time to think i land with the nose of my board slamming into my nuts. I was pissing blood

so u guys got any?

[Patrick__69]

Ouch did you get your rod checked to make sure it was alright? For Surfing I surf beach breaks so I just go into the water but one time I made it out into the back when I was pretty young ,about 13 I think and I had just watched Blue Crush and thought I was really good. It was really huge, thinking on it now I have no idea how I made it out back so quickly and I take the first wave and bail so badly and then get pounded by a huge wave then another and then another and another. I thought I was gona drown and made it to shore gasping for breath. 10 mins later went back out though cuz I was young

[bluesnowcone]

my worst wipe out was a year or so ago and it was realychoppy 5ft swell, i paddeld for the wave then it broke on me and sent me down i swam back up and when i too a breath i choked on seawater, another wave came noked me about again, this hapend about 2 more times, then on the final set wave it pushed my board into my face, the noes hit just below my eye and i was bleeding.

i got back on my bord and tryed to paddel back in whish was bloddy hard.

[WooD]

I've never had a serious injury from a wipe out, We had a similar thread going on our local forum. A friend of mine told what happened to him::::


St.Augustine 3 years ago in 1 foot slop. Walking to the nose, the board slipped sideways and hit me in the face. Crushed my cheek bone, shattered my eye socket and fractured my temple. Got airlifted to shands in G-ville. I now have 2 titanium plates in my face and a wire mesh eye socket. I was back in the water 10 days after the surgery. I guess some of us never learn...

Hard to believe it can happen in one foot surf, but it did.

[hawaiiSUCKSexceptsurf]

yyeeesssssssss

i was waiting for this.

my friend pissed bloos from getting nutted going down a 20 stair railing, right in front of the harbor "police" he also got stitches in his asshole.

ive landed on a skeg, ripped the round fat tip part off one of my toes on some coral, had my leash wrap around a rock with a big set pushing in, holding me just high enough to breath but with a swell pushing in it only let me catch quick breaths along with water. i also kicked a sea urchin (kicking myself up to the surface when i wiped out years ago, now i know better) and had the spines in me for a year until they finally dissolved, and had a small shattered rock buried into my back when i wiped out in a shallow area, and in my feet numerous times. the reef can suck man.


this is what i learned early on: when you wipe out in hawaii or other reef spots, dont bother using your legs to get to the surface. pretend their limp or curl them up like a fetus.

[Patrick__69]

this is what i learned early on: when you wipe out in hawaii or other reef spots, dont bother using your legs to get to the surface. pretend their limp or curl them up like a fetus.

Thanks for the tip I hope to one day surf a reef break.

[PapaW]

Almost got snapped in half by a 3ft thick lip falling from 8ft+ on the wedge in North Wales... Twice.... Funnily enough the second time ended the seshion for me.

Still, never the less was the best sesh I've ever had, kegs the size of a bus.

[Beachbum]

Mine isent as bad as all of your stories lol but at a spot located on the West Side of the island I hurt my leg pretty bad. I was riding down the wave and I guess this beach is known for some of its backwash so while the wave was going out it collided with my wave and some how my board flipped over and I landed on my fins. Luckly it didn't break my board but my leg had a decent black and blue on it.

[4theLoveofTHeWipeOut]

Bout 8 months ago id only just started learnin how to stand up in the white water, i decided to paddle out a bit further where i could see some other more experienced surfers , just for the sake of learnin to padle through the set waves i got out there pretty easy and was actually pretty pleased with myself , my major mistake that i didnt realise at the time was that I hadnt sat back and watched the sets long enough before paddling out i was away from the usual popular break and on a more deserted part of the beach as I was with a lady friend, i decided to try here cause it was less crowded. The waves when i firsted looked out werent that back about 3ft , once i got out near the other surfers I realised they where gettin bigger i sat out there for about 5 mins and realised i had no hope of catchin one properly so was thinking about going in , I turned my back to the sea(big mistake on my part) and waved to my chickie friend who was on beach at that moment i heard one of the surfers who i thought where still close say something i turned and saw a massive outside set aroun 7ft risin up in front of me, the current had pulled me right over the sandbar where the big close out sets break , at that moment that sinking sick feeling came over me and i knew i was caught and there was nothing i could do board too big too duck dive and there was no way i was gettin over it, in that couple of seconds i decided too just turn my board toward shore and try and hopefully ride it out , the actual moment i felt it hit me was like slow motion i had that loss of gravity for like half a second and then just got pulverised into the sandbar and rag dolled for what seemed like about 15 secs but was probably only around 7-8 , the wave knocked the wind out of me a bit and i came up got one gasp of air only to cop another one on the head as i wasnt completely out of the impact zone, when i came up from the second wave i was completely F*cked and totally gaspin for breath and i knew if there was another wave comin it was all over for me, luckily there wasnt i struggled a little bit closer to shore and found my feet, staggered to the beach and collapsed much to the dissapointment of my lady friend who had come to watch me surf, lol. I came closer to god that day, I know that and stuck to the whitewash after that, Moments like this have helped me come to respect the tremendous power and unpredictability of the ocean and how humbling surfing can be it really helps u see ur place in the scheme of things, Apart from that most wipeouts are fun I love that rag doll wshin machined feelin lol ,

[mrc]

I stupidly decided after two years surfing I could handle Puerto escondido only to get caught by a huge easily 10ft+ sneaker set (if not bigger) got pounded into the bottom then came up got hit by another wave and pounded of the bottom again then came up and got my back and elbow sliced by the fins (elbow needed stitches), needless to say never ventured in that spot again.
Oh yeah I also surfed a few other spots there and got abit to close to an urchin and also got dragged over coral numerous times so lots of scars to remember my remind me.

[FormosanSurfer]

I went over the falls once and the fins landed right on my nuts (or rahter my nuts landed right on the fins). Needless to say, my little friend hated me for about a week.

[isaluteyou]

try this for size. It was a big day about 3 months ago. I was having a ball on my BB. I saw a perect 6-8ft face building i caught it at the perfect angle and pulled off a textbook bottom turn as i was trimming down the line i rose up to the crest of the wave to pull off a cutback and suddenly the wave hollowed out leaving about a 6-8ft death plunge normally i can handle that but because i was sideways i dropped sideways and the board bashed me in the ribs (i landed on the side of the board) then the wave curled round and hit me right on impact zone both my fins on my feet were ripped off (thank god for teathers) then i rolled around in the machine for a while when i emerged with fins hanging loose and hardly a breath left i got washed by the last wave in the set. I ended up crawling out the water half drowned. It didnt end my session though i caught my breath and went straight back out

[Mitur Bin'esderty]

Was surfing once in January With full suit , Booties gloves balaclava. THe surf was about 8ft so i paddeled out already bricking it without surfing a wave yet. So i get outback and sat there waiting for the next set. It came so i started to paddle on to this wave and i caught it late the wave crashed on me sending me from the Peak to the trough. the wave dragged me underwater for about 10 meters, i swam to the surface and had a real bad ice cream headache got out the surf and waited for my headache to stop then went straight back in but this time i didnt make the same mistake.

[surfer16]

Two years ago I was surfing my local reef at about 2-3ft. As the tide came in around us it got very cramped. There were lots of surfers squeezed into this little cove. I caught a wave and started to paddle back into the line-up when I see my dad take off on his 10 footer, he bottom turned and lost his footing and fell..his longboard shot out infront of him and the nose smacked me full out in the mouth.

I came back around on the rocks with people standing over me, my dad told me what had just happened. I could feel that my mouth was swollen up and what I thought were bit of my broken teeth on my tounge (I later realised that I was bits of fiberglass off my dads longboard).

I had to have a few stiches, no big deal. Whats cool is the huge ding there was in my dads board from where it hit me. I'm strangly proud of that

[Mitur Bin'esderty]

Ouch! that must of being traveling at some speed! i had a similar experience wen som1 shortboard punted me in the head inches from my temple...my mum was like you should get that looked at but i was like " And miss this great surf ..no way" My head dripping with blood i paddeled back out