A star is born!
Maradona’s hand.
J-Lo’s derrière.
Billy Kemper’s pelvis.
Before you even realized what was happening, with a heartrending crack, the world shifted beneath your feet.
One year ago, when hard-charging tricenarian Billy Kemper’s pelvis was shattered on cold Moroccan stone, the news made the rounds across multiple mainstream publications.
Like Kelly’s foot, like Taj’s knee, like Bede’s pelvis before Billy’s, we all expected a brief flurry of schadenfreude-fueled media excitement, followed by the quick demise of the story in a rapid, 24-hour news environment.
But one year later, in a second act rivalling that of Cher, CNN is reporting how Kemper “glimpsed at death after a wave broke his pelvis in half.”
Just like that, a star is born.
A stunning turn of events. The public, blindsided.
But at least one man saw it coming.
As previously chronicled in BeachGrit, WSL CEO Erik Logan, noticing a disturbance in the force, took quick action to bring Billy home.
In a brief but titillating appearance in Chapter three of “Billy”, Elo chronicled his own humble, yet vital, role in the events that future generations may well judge to be a high watermark in the history of our great sport.
As Logan recounts of his first inkling of disaster, “My first interaction was a WhatsApp text that showed up out of the blue from a Hawaii number”.
Tears fell.
The rest is history.
Perhaps, in the wake of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s interview with Oprah, the media frenzy surrounding Kemper’s now-healed member will finally abate.
But with chapter four due in coming days, all bets are off.
Are you counting down?
Watch parts one, two and three here.
Do you get to call yourself Hawaiian if you were born there? Or do you have to be a “Hawaiian” to be Hawaiian. Just curious. BK sure looks white to me. Eddie Rothman is from Philly, but is considered to be Hawaiian, bra. Gerry Lopez doesn’t sound Hawaiian either. Just wondering
I just can’t handle all the medical details – which is why I went into law and not medicine. But in sharing all the gore, didn’t they forget to explain how he got so fucked up? I mean – what did he hit and with what part of his body? The bottom? His board? I thought that spot wouldn’t be all that deep as it’s a point break. ANYONE KNOW?
Had a knee op once.Very painful!
Looks like Elo put on his best Outerknown flannel for the interview
pelvis’ not dead…
Is that an outer known shirt elo is wearing?
How BG isn’t writing all woz press releases is simply criminal!
Fuck, you mean there’s 3 more of this train wreck to go?
CHOO MUTHFUKIN CHOO.
As Elo would say.
“If you want the ultimate thrill- you have to be willing to pay the ultimate price”. Bhodi
Tree fiddy?
I for one welcome our new pelvic overlord.
There’s still time Charles:
Bill Lee Kemp-Her.
Do you see it?
You could still pull it off.
Hard to tell conclusively from the XR in the frame grab but that’s certainly not a life threatening injury. Looks like a LC1 type, stable pattern. The front part of the pelvis looks intact. Doesn’t need surgery, highly unlikely to have associated nerve or vascular injury.
Treatment would be a couple of days on the couch, mobilise with crutches for 4-6 weeks and rehab back to sport over next 4 to 6 weeks. Incidentally, the part of right hip joint that can be seen doesn’t look in great condition, he probably has a pre-existing labral tear, will get arthritis down the track and blame it on this injury. Disclaimer: I am an orthopaedic surgeon and I specialise in Hip and trauma surgery. (This does not constitute medical advise)
Thanks for your insight and opinion. Good to see someone around here that’s not a total lunatic. Wasn’t Bede’s a lot worse? I think I remember he got metal brackets and screws installed on his pelvis? But I might just be mistaken cuz I’m a lunatic.
I feel like I learned something on BG for the first time. Thank you, Dr!
Nothing like getting schooled on a public forum.
– seems these are post op films (post removal of hardware)
– those are in fact screw tracts, lateral to medial
– his fucked hip may well be as a result of the injury, but he does have a Cam lesion on the proximal femur which is contributing and I stand by the pre-existing labral tear
– having not seen original post injury imaging, can’t say for sure, but majority of LC type injuries (54%) can be managed non-operatively
– young, athlete, would be relative indications for fixation even in stable injury https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Last 2 things – always check name, date, side before commenting on an XR (and if pre-or post treatment)
I am not a radiologist
I have not watched the movie (it sounds like a drawn out, over emotional pseudo drama) and I do not know anything else about the story other than what’s on BG.
Bede’s injury was an APC type, which would have higher risk of complications, there was also a guy at G-Land some years ago who had one like that too.
As a good surgeon, I am often wrong, but never in doubt.
Scares me when I don’t see any markers on x-rays. I guess it’s cropped.
He was looking at it on his douchepad.
I have a very obvious clean metatarsal break that the “doc” didn’t see, I’m so angry. Also, smoking 2 or 3 cigarettes a day, will this measurably hinder my healing?
yes-ish. smoking biggest risk factor for delayed and non-union. (and vit-D deficiency, but if you get out in the sun and have a western diet and fair skin you more likely to get skin cancer than rickets…)
metatarsal fracture – which one and is it into a joint? Base of the 5th metatarsal the true Jones Fracture – has a high risk of healing problems so your smoke break isn’t helping you if it is there. Foot fractures are the worst – they hurt twice as much and heal half as fast as you expect. 2/3 a day isn’t a huge amount anyway and balance it against your mental health. No cig’s is better than 2, but 3 is better than 20…
and again, for all you lawyers out ther (this dies not constitute medical advice)
Thanks so much for replying, it’s the second metatarsal. I actually suspected being happy and having a crutch to lean on (pun intended) would be a contributing factor. I’m otherwise generally healthy and getting sun and calcium, also a very balanced diet.
I’ll dig up my xray, you won’t believe that the cunts didn’t see it.
Yo doc, I’ve got one for ya.
Year and a half ago I fell on my ass on a wipeout and had a grade 3 sprain of the SI joint on both sides. Thought it was all healed up 10 months ago but alas tore it right up again on a standard bottom turn. Haven’t surfed since and I’m at about 90% healed.Worst pain of my life. Couldn’t sit for 3 months… Not sure how to come back without another tear. Doc says I’m f’d and just to accept it. Can I see an ortho about a procedure? No one knows how to treat it. PT prescribes the same exercises for post pregnancy.
show us a picture or it didn’t happen. (this does not constitute medical advice)
…and as always, showing the John Thomas Sign. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
…actually, in retrospect, that’s bowel.
You one hip hip doc
X rays are like a fans only page for health care workers. I want to see more.
Shhhsh, time for a bit of alone time.
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Stop! Where do I sign up for the post op views?
ok, what about those 3x linear opacities running coronally from what looks like medially.?previous screw tracts or are we looking at post screw removal films [or underlying artefact]?
See comments below. I am happy to be schooled, this is post operative film, after removal of hardware and the screw tracts are lateral to medial.
Cheers, Tim…though as much – more Wozzle confection.
Like those TV medical dramas where stethescopes ALWAYS go on the wrong way.
Usually the only pelvis x-rays I see are when someone has something lodged in their butt.
Ain’t that the truth. Coffee cups etc. Boggles the mind what people do in their spare time. They always slipped and fell on top of it.
Jelly jar is the best one so far.
HIPPA has really killed this past time because none of the nurses or techs want to get caught sharing the images.
Which is a real shame.
I was thinking I should get a pap smear as well as a prostate exam cause I want my guts to be inclusive and gender neutral
Any thoughts??
A fool and his crypto $$$$$$ are soon parted.
It’s on a thumb drive under the mattress
maybe try agenda neutral?
I’ll circle back to you on that.
No point letting the truth get in the way of a good story !
This whole series seems a bit bs. I seem to remember they were gonna shake up the bwwt by having a clips comp, and they suggested prior that this “strike mission” was wsl funded as part of that… with a digested show afterwards hence all the cams and footage etc. But, then tragedy struck and e lo was on the hook for breaking one of their most marketable big wave assets first time he got to play with him. So now to make up for the lack of pay, and to make e lo look like he has some largesse, are they now making this series to rewrite the history? Or am I remembering wrong?
I haven’t watched any of these and I am hesitant to do so! Is this one of these over-produced American wank fests where everyone sheds tears and talk about how gnarly their lives are and how extraordinary all their friends are (the subtext being that they too are extraordinary)? If it is please ELO, do us all a favor and take that lucrative job in PR in Santa Barbara, the one with the teary eyed transatlantic couple!
To be fair Harry’s probably the best one out of generations of those parasites.
Indeed, seems like a nice fella. I am just so fucking over surf documentaries, they are so cliche ridden, and I am guessing I am the target market! I watched a few hours of those NSW surf competitions the last few weeks, I’ll happily watch Ben gravy edits, but I can’t bring myself to watch Oprahesque tear filled shit fests
Surfers of Bali is the cure. No words or music
Oh no – that’s death by FOMO.
It’s strangely never occurred to me to watch hours of QS footage.
Too much other shit going on in life to be sat on may arse like that. Besides, My wife would fucking kill me.
Lockdowns are a great excuse to tell that special person in your life to get fucked!
Sadly we haven’t been in lockdown for many moons.
This is the kind of thing ELO thinks surfers want to watch…copy and paste Oprah style edits. He is delusional.
The surfing in episode 2 is very very impressive.
Elo likes to suck Billys butt plug.
Empowerment!!
Had his pelvis thrashed.
Hahaha
Pity the boys at the all-male brothels after Willem’s finished with em. Carnage.
I’m still trying to figure out how Billy almost died – certainly not from a fractured pelvis? Was it a lung thing?
Off the charts pain wise but unless you rupture an artery not life threatening. I wonder what kind of pain meds those boat tours in the mentawai’s are allowed to carry.
Lottsa no script Meds available at the smaller pharmacys
Kinda wondering though if you smash your face into the reef and you have a six hour boat trip to the hospital.
I’ve never been on a boat trip but didn’t Andy almost check out on the boat?
They’d have allsorts
He drank a quart of vodka combined with some other shit on his birthday and turned blue. First year on tour.
i did that with southern comfort for some stupid reason in college. woke up in my vomit the next day and had to get flight.. stupidest or a top 50 stupidest thing I ever did.. sometimes I thank god they don’t let kids get away with shit we did (for my kids sake)
Seems like our brains don’t really mature until we’re in our twenties. The part that says this is a bad idea.
Hold my beer.
late twenties LOL. seriously looking back
Hmmmm. Still capable of doing some real dumbass shit on occasion and have left the 20’s well behind!
Usually what is left of a slab of Tigers and some very damp shit bush weed is what is offered. Yesterday’s Nasi Goreng also sometimes available.
Some civil war type pain meds. I’ll bring my own .
I’ve been on a trip where a cunt punctured his lung and an old doctor bloke used a sterilised biro to re-inflate his lung. He had to sit upright in some shit hole surf camp for 2 or 3 days eating panadols until his lung had recovered enough to put him on a plane. It can be fucking hell over there when shit hits the fan. Good to travel with medicos if you can because they are allowed to carry certain amount of morphine and basic pain management stuff. Otherwise it’s a grin and bear it situation.
On our last trip a mate landed on his arse at 1 foot thunders and ripped a hole in it. Luckily there was a boat of brazzos there that happened to have an emergency ward doc from Sao Paulo that was able to stitch him up. Then had to go drop him back at the ferry for an uncomfortable 36 hr trip home. Was only day 4 too, poor bastard
Yeah it’s honestly not worth surfing those shit sessions. It’s usually always shallow as. Seen many cunts duckdive straight into reef trying to get under Teahupoo for ants.
Is it possible to get drunk from Tigers?
Or even Bintangs?
Yeah you can certainly can mate. Even the best of us are not impervious.
I’ve only really had one bad night in Singapore but at some point we stopped drinking Tigers and moved on to something else.
And because I can remember drinking the Tigers BUT not the other stuff is why I hold that opinion.
Tigers are singapore VB’s.
he nearly died from hyperbolisis
I think Shoah would be an easier and shorter watch.
Honestly agree. Thanks Youtube for that slider at the bottom of the screen so you can self edit. I’d rather pour lemon on a paper cut.
I wish Tyler’s brother would do a tell all about his duck dive
Elo still visibly upset his wife wouldn’t let him keep billy
Brilliant production Wozzle. So much integrity. Loved that you filmed Pat O just after jacking off, too…added to the grit and reality.
I haven’t watched it but I’ll take your word for it.
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At least they cropped out the moisturizer and tissues
They missed an opportunity for product placement revenue.
Sleepy time now.
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…and the dilemma re ejaculate.
Stand Up Phapping.
Everyone’s had a billy thrown out on them. Devastating.