World number three injured in mountain-bike accident.
Half an hour ago, the world number three Julian Wilson announced he’d separated his shoulder in a mountain-bike stack.
Julian, who turns thirty this year and who won the Billabong Pro in Tahiti last year in a dramatic last-minute switcharoo, told his IG pals,
“I have some not-very-good news to share. I’ve come undone on my mountain bike doing some cross-training at Glenrock national park in Newcastle on Friday evening. I went over the handlebars, landed square on my shoulder and ruptured the AC joint. It’s not going to require surgery (but) it’s extremely uncomfortable hence the bag of peas on my shoulder. There’s no timeframe on the recovery. I’ll take it one step at a time. I’ll be doing everything…injuries suck and forced rest is never fun but I’ll be back stronger and better!”
Watch as a beautiful little child recreates the accident!
https://www.instagram.com/p/hCnd68g_by/?hl=en&taken-by=funnyfailvideos
An AC dislocation means an “Injury to the acromioclavicular (AC) joint on the top of the shoulder, where the collarbone (clavicle) meets the highest point of the shoulder blade (acromion).”
Literature on an AC sep suggests an athlete can be significantly weakened for a year after the injury.
The first event of the year is six weeks away, which may require a little fiddling with your fantasy surfer team.
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I though red bull gave him wings
If he shaved his legs, he wouldn’t have gotten hurt. Every serious cyclist knows that shaved legs are mandatory before donning the fluorescent spandex uniform. He couldn’t concentrate on the trail, because all the other cyclists were snickering about his hairy legs.
Good luck getting your arm back from her gunt mate.
you dont see john john riding bikes, do you?
that sucks. will have to hope that parko can step up and challenge this year.
Achilles tear! That one seems gnarly. The AC makes that crunchy SNAP when you tear it – Achilles must sound sickening. Good on ya staying fit, Stay Healthy Keep Surfing like the old bumper stickers used to say!
Just fiddled with myself
To Julian Wilson’s sprained shoulder? Your fantasy life is very specific.
It’s a handsome shoulder don’t you think?
I thought I heard screams of pain on Friday! I was wondering why it seemed so busy at the top entrance to the park, with people standing around looking concerned.
I fucked up my ACL (leg thing) skating at 27.
I really don’t recommend it!
he honestly hasn’t moved this way no?? is some very good banks around at the moment
I dunno about that. Instead of the usual 5 plus banks at my local, it was down to one in the middle of the beach and all these strange gorillas not known to the local area seemed to be on it. Bastards. I think they were displaced from Redhead for the day due to a SUP comp.
Redhead mate is on fire – my local!!
How was the SUP comp?
Did you win?
I did – I actually rocked up down there and didn’t know what was going on as at one stage it looked like a dodgy obstacle course race with guys paddling along the beach and riding waves sitting down etc
So put my gorilla suit on and headed north!!
Youuuuuuu barsteward
2nd Creek was one of my favorites when i lived in Newy.👍
been epic lately!
Riding mountain bikes is fun, but if you are a professional surfer, or any professional athlete for that matter, you need to make sure that you are cross training by doing something that will not put your career in jeopardy, especially when you are under performing (according to some) and are on the verge of something special, but can’t quite pull it off. Come back soon Jules.
This is the sort of article that’ll have our 40+ readership wowing us with tales of surgery.
I think you should focus on banning commenters who falsely attempt to one-up each other with bullshit claims or try to befriend the writers. Bit of a Dutch rudder fest going on here lately. Not very democratic. Good to see it killing STAB though.
No point making friends with writers, they always manage to fuck off home when it’s their shout.
Wiggolly say: Those who can’t do, write and those who write, can’t pay for anything.
the key to the city the jewells’s in the crown..?
The BeachGrit do-gooders treat me as a sub-human alien in some sort of prejudice way so I try to say things that will make them think I belong here in hope that one day my family can grow up in a place like BeachGrit. Little do they know they are the problem with the world.
Thumbs up to B.G on their fiscal quest.
If its easier, this do-gooder can just adopt your family…
But I’ll need a photo of the kid first, I have certain standards.
Or um, marry, um, never mind…
Funny you should say that, Negs…
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thought jules hurt his shoulder surfing kelly’s wave pool… nevermind that was chas.
There is a much worse physical trait for crazy push bike riders….
Yep, probably won’t help his shoulder, but by gosh he’ll feel so fabulously fabulous about life, the universe and everything!
Done my left shoulder AC 3rd degree rip or worse 4 times: one MTB, two snowboard, one surf. Not such a bad injury to rehab – just sort of gets better eventually, and if you try to do sports before fully healed pain is liveable after the first ten days or so.
He’ll be okay.
MTB’s though are pure evil. So fucking fun but make no mistake, you will go OTB, not if but when.
More proof that physical training is a bad idea for professional surfers. I long for the good old days when drinking beer, snorting lines and eating poorly were the mark of a true warrior.
No wonder there are a lot of good surfers out of newy then.
Exactly. Newy should become the High Performance Centre, with the emphasis on high.
Fuck that was going to be my business plan instead of a bar for Deza – high performance centre in Newy plus a bar. So we actually mess up their training and get on the piss instead and teach surfing clichés – “thanks god for that”, “I should have ridden the step up”
Chad Edser for High Performance Director.
Nicky Wood for High Times Manager
Andrew Johns for Blow n Hoe Consultant
Location: Burwood Inn.
Agreed, stick to surfing. You surf all the time, you’re already shredded. No need to go fucking yourself up ‘cross training’. It’d do some of these guys (to be fair, not concerning Julian) well to ditch the dojo and hit the library. Some (most*) of these post heat chats are unbearable.
Imagine being forced to talk about surfing? No matter what you said, you’d sound like a dick.
On the bright side, a wank with the other hand will feel like scoring some strange for a few days…
Seems like the million dollar sponsors would put in some kind of clause about what extracurricular activities are and are not allowed!! Seems like someone up there should of thought that through!
Titans had a clause in Marcus Mariota’s rookie contract that prohibited surfing. He wouldn’t sign until they lined it out. You can take the boy out of Hawaii, but not the Hawaii out of the boy!
Very often, they do. A friend of mine was very excited to retire and be able to snow ski again. 🙂
Until the other hand finds out it’s being cheated on. Then the shit will hit the fan.
hella common injury among bike people, which isn’t a super big problem because they don’t move their arms much anyway. pro surfer? uh… brah…
When i wrecked my AC it took two months of walking my hand up a wall to get some form of limited mobility in my upper arm. It was over a year before i could even fathom doing a pull up. But i was also broke and in America without health insurance so i had to rely on Friends in the PT field to help me out. Hope he gets better soon. That injury sucks
I just knew things would go downhill once he left the Sunshine Coast.
He’ll get his groove back on tour, just like riding a bike
The move itself shouldn’t shoulder the blame, but the separation from his connective tissue certainly hasn’t been helpful.
I see what you just did!
Has he moved to Newy – to get away from Nola?
Never. I suspect it’s more to do with going to a place that will test the mind more than the luxury that abounds here.