Injured soldier......

Right, so on Saturday, I got myself into a bit of a pickle. I was working at the surf school and saw a lady  drifting out to sea and panicking. I swam out to pull her in but as I reached her and told her to jump up onto the board, she decided to use me to push herself onto it. She used my shoulder as a lever and my back crumpled under her weight and made it go into spasm. To cut a long story, about lifeguards, ambulance, morphine, spinal board, xrays bla bla bla, short, I left the hospital 8 hours later with strong pain killers and very little movement in my back and neck. I am now bed ridden and in a lot of pain! Not ideal when the waves have been fairly fun (so ive heard.) The next step is Physio, which will hopefully tell me the exact damage and recovery time. So fingers crossed ill be back in the water in no time as I have a new Watercooled board i'm itching to try out :)

4th in longboarding

So I'm new to this whole blogging thing but Ithought it would be a good way for me to get myself out there and share with everyone what I've been up to! I'm going to start with this weekend; Ive just been away at the final leg of the British Longboard Tour at Gwithian. I decided to compete in longboarding aswell as shortboarding this year as I really enjoy it and love the contest vibe! There had been three previous contests of which I had competed in two, and gained a fourth and third place. Unfortunatley I didnt surf to my full potential in one foot, onshore, slow, mushy waves and i got knocked out in third place in the semi finals. However i had done enough in the previous comps to bag myself fourth place overall, making me the fourth longboarder in Britain. A pretty good result I thought, seeing as I spend my time training for shortboarding! The full results of the contest and tour can be found at www.british-longboard-union.co.uk