Ouch.
Nothing like an injury to make a good surf trip story.
According to his latest Instagram post, Nathan Florence busted up his elbow on a recent trip to Secret Sumatra. Luckily he made it home to Hawaii before needing medical attention.
Florence captioned the clip above:
“So got a bit wounded! Board speared my elbow doing a turn, lol imagine that turns more dangerous then slab tour😂 trip was just getting started at @secretsumatra unfortunately had to end early as infection set in and cut had had some fiberglass in it, flew home to find out board had speared into bone fracturing it, they removed a little chip and did some cleaning, got a few weeks of recovery ahead nothing to wild, thanks @deanfergus for all the help and for having us at @secretsumatra we cant wait to come back and surf it on the pump the set up was awesome! Time to take advantage of some rest hawaii to africa to indo and back around the world in 3 weeks was wild haha and just one of this years adventures with more to come! Thanks my ortho/ER friends at Kaiser for the clean up!”
Other pros wished him well in the comments below:
Mark Healy: Geeez guy! Get that swellbow under control already.
Torrey Meister: Ouch man! Never doing another turn again what the heck!
Kai Lenny: Dang dude heal up bro 🙏
Jamie O’Brien: Get well soon come home 🏡
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