Chaffing?? I just cover the whole area with vasoline before I get in. A nice big handful lasts all day
Got sliced on forehead under water from fins, decided to glue it up instead of getting stiches so didn't heal as well. But now when I'm underwater I always try to cover my face at least because if the board, nose, or fins catch you underwater it will most likely do damage. Some things cant get out of the way from especially falling trying to do a trick but at least underwater can quickly adjust and protect face sometimes. Had prior shoulder injury from lifting at gym not surf related, but have a anterior superior labrum tear. It's small and surgeon couldnt even see it from MRI pics. But it hurt like hell for a good 6 months with discomfort at night and certain movements. After surfing, the shoulder still gets pretty sore depending on how rigorous the session was but bunch of advil works like magic with bad shoulder. Plus, have to do certain excercises to strengthen the shoulder which is key. Other then that just your typical bruises/cuts from landing on board or fins or eating it bad. Gotta say, have surfed reefs but havent had any problems since the water wasnt too shallow and wasnt pumping for airs--so props to the dudes pulling these off in shallow reef.
i had my knee pop out while playing soccer and until this winter didnt give me any problems. then i went over the falls and stuck in the sand like a lawn dart. it was the worst i have ever twisted. finished the session but wasnt back in until 3 weeks later. 2 seperated collarbones, 1 broken collarbone, 1 shattered collarbone. 3 were right at the beginning of winter so i didnt miss much. 1 was in may and i was told not to surf until august. i laughed at him and was back june. no problems yet
Lower back usually kills it for me. as far as chafing, I use the Oneil undershorts and never have problems (under the boardshorts)
had a disc pop out on me a few years back. now it will every now and again. pretty serious pain, and it has just started to bother me due to alot of lifting at work (construction-framing). disc problems suck. last winter I also caught the lip of a bomber on the back of my knee. stopped me in my tracks. couldn't really walk for a coupla days, but never went to get it checked out. that still bothers me too. as far as the chaif situation, I got a pair of oniel silky boxer type things that are awesome, never had a problem after I got them.
For you guys with chaff problems, I started wearing a pair of speedos under my board shorts when on long trips in the tropics and have never had a problem since. You can surf all day everyday with no problem at all. Just don't forget to wear board shorts on top
- A couple of stingers on over the falls head plants on some o/h surf in PR shallow breaks - Nasty head plant on the shallow sandbar at the Hatteras Lighthouse (freak accident to avoid colliding with a novice kuke longboarder walking his board out and then turning it parallel with the breaking wave) - scariest accident of them all and it happened in just 3' surf - Contacted Hep A at Hospital/Horseshoe in La Jolla - nastiest experience for 3 solid weeks - Nasty infection from a small reef cut on the waist in PR back in 1970 - A couple of very close calls to the eyes and nuts - thankfully no real damage
try having a knee dislocate when going for a floater that sucks kept me out for a long time and put me on crutches for a while. finally try having a torn akelis tendon that hasnt fully healed yet and it happened a year ago.the reason i dont get surgery on the ankle is im too young (15 about to be 16) to have the surgery dine and it would take to long as in rehab. so when i surf i just wear an ace bandage thats wrapped up really tight around the ankle so it doesnt hurt.
I torn my rotator cuff may 2, 2007 while surfing. It kept me out of the water for a goo 9 months. I don't know about anyone else but when I tore mine I could not lift my elbow over my shoulder (no way I could paddle). If you are looking for a surgon in Ocean County you might want to check out Dr. Stamos at Brielle Ortho by the Brick Hospital (alot of guys I know including me had rotator cuff surgery by him). I also have herniated disc in my lower back from skating and snowboarding, that bother my from time to time.
Ripped off my big toe tail, concussion from a paddle board to the head leading to a black out, and the tail hit me right square in the ass once. I consider myself lucky...
phew me too. thank god hah. ive gotten pretty good at saving myself some injuries just by bailing correctly or watching it, but one time i ate it hard dropping in and got launched. i put my arms over my head cause i fell forward and assumed my board was heading straight towards me. well, the tip railed me in the jugular and i almost drowned. had trouble breathing for a few days.
1982 Was swinging my feet under my twin fin and smacked a fin with my heel and sliced off a chunk. This hurt like hell. 1984 Made the mistake of throwing my board over a wave and it came back and hit me in the face. This was the morrning before my senior prom and it knocked my front teeth out. 1986 Wiped out on New Years eve and was hit from behind by my board. It puctured my hood and stabbed me in the back of the head and chipped my skull. I saw stars on that one, kept surfing for an hour before getting out and realizing my hood was full of blood. 1994 Fell from the top of a 10 foot faced wave during a hurricane (not sure which one) and fell on my fin with my arm. Sliced a gash down to the muscle. The Doctor made me swear not to go back in the water for 2 weeks (I didn't). 1996 Was taking a Bungy cord off of my rack and had the cord come back and hit me square in the forehead and sliced me open. Missed my eye by .5 inch . 2001 My 2 year old son put sand in my melted wax and I surfed like that. The sand wore the skin off of my knee where I drag it while popping up. This was the most painful and long lasting injury I think I have ever had. Everytime it would heal I would go surfing and the new skin would tear off. Took about 6 months to fully heal. 2006 Was messing around on a wave at the very end (where it was like 2 foot high) and did a little floater and had the backwash jump up and smack the board right up and into my face and break my nose. 2008 Fell on the reef in the Caribbean and got puctured in the ass with a bunch of urchin spines. They went right thu my shorts and were sticking out. Had to pluck them out one by one and it hurt!!!!! Man I never realized how many times I have been hurt until I put it down into writing.
yes I was waiting for someone to say that because I didn't want to sound like a kook wearing a speedo and all. that's exactly what I do, I wear the speedo that's a little longer than the tighty whitey ones(goes down to my mid thighs) because i was having trouble with chafing over the summer. I remember saying to myself before I got the speedo that I couldn't wait until I could throw my wetsuit on again and I wouldn't have that problem. Now my problem is that I have a thermal shirt connected to my hood and there must be a loose stitch or somethin right near my armpit so when I paddle I feel it rubbing under my shoulder and I get out and it stings like a *****.
i cant even imagine how bad dislocating your knee would hurt... holy crap that sucks. take care of that.
Well here's a lil bit of my F-ed up toes... Im not gonna get into this one...but you see on my second toes, I have hard nubs from sick blisters I got while BBing in NC
last summer I got this weird chaffing on my knee. Everytime I'd pop up it's rub skin off and prevent it from healing. It was a really tiny injury, only about the size of a dime, but I think it got infected and it looked like a burn, just a straight up hole in my skin. Definitely painful and a massive hassle. Other than that and a broken nose and a couple of fin cuts, I've gotten off easy.
Chaffing does suck. I would hold off on the gold bond, sometimes can make things worst. Best thing to help is preventing the skin from friction , and that means not doing much lol I shredded my feet and leg pretty bad last hurricane season. Was waiting to jump and some idiot slipped behind me. Fell on some barnicles and was nasty. Had some other retard moments as well lol
