Kelly Slater fumes.
Two-time World Surf League champion and current tour number four, John John Florence, has just gone under the knife for an unspecified knee surgery after pulling out of the just-finished Margaret River contest ahead of its quarterfinals.
On an Instagram post featuring Florence, left leg braced and heavily wrapped, lounging comfortably on a very thin hospital bed surrounded by his doctor, filmer and an unspecified natural beauty, the surfer wrote:
I woke up to the report from the surgeon that everything went as well as possibly, and the procedure I had will give me the opportunity to surf at full strength sooner than I had hoped. Feeling motivated to really know that the Olympics are attainable. I’m excited for this and I’m gonna do everything I can to make it happen!
“Everything” and “the procedure” both left un-clarified.
Now, I’m no knee specialist, furthermore have no idea what sort of knee surgery involving a very thin hospital bed can entirely heal in three short months.
Cosmetic maybe?
An unsightly mole disappeared?
Whatever the case, this is good news for U.S. Olympic surf team fans, bad news for Australia’s deadly Irukandjis and first alternate Kelly Slater.
Or maybe not.
The fact that Florence needed serious medical intervention ahead of Tokyo may bode well for the world’s greatest surfer’s chances to make the leap.
In any case, Brazil for gold and silver, on the men’s side. Japan for the bronze.
U.S. a close fourth.
Australia somewhere below South Africa, Portugal, France.
No?
More as the story develops.
Eat doggie door,” the U.S.A. never does anything less than Food, whether in the water or ” around gangstas necks$, either way, best not to take it from( above mentioned)..
So much media can be bogus. As a contributor for the eminent 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 OutinPerth.com, we believe all of this stuff about John Florence’s knee is a cover story to blacklist her from coming out gay like so many celebrities are silenced, even to this day, “don’t ask don’t tell.”
Anything can be faked. Sorry but this is a bearding…as someone who has been in person close to John John Florence while all of this was happening “allegedly” we witnessed NO injury as a well meaning, truth oriented, investigative reporter.
As far as our network is concerned, “View From a Blue Moon” IS a gay reference to one’s bootie…
John Florence surfs like a leopard.
This is from Camp Friends of Florence. View — uploads.disquscdn.com
#JohnFlorenceLeopard
Like JJF’s official IMDB page, many media outlets support John Florence as transgender – this widely distributed story refers to her as Cleopatra https://beachgrit.com/2021/… .
And at least one other legitimate news source is questioning this knee surgery as possibly bogus: https://stabmag.com/news/ex…
Finally, anyone who was at Margaret River witnessing John John Florence’s final heat can tell you she paddled in and was totally fine – didn’t even need jet ski to bring her in. Check the footage. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
It should read ‘Kelly on fumes’ not ‘Kelly fumes’
More proof that downcarves are the most progressive moves in modern surfing, claiming more injuries than airs. Why does he care? It’s not as though he has a chance, even in pumping Japan.
$$$$. Going will get him some outside publicity and publicity will bring him//his brand more $$$$
Breaking John John.
Champion surfer goes weak at the knees and turns to cooking up Marine X in his back shed.
It’s a hit with the mokes and the haoles until his dad Kelly rats him out to the WSL cartel.
https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
Dick.
Dishonest John
(a predecessor to Dick Dastardly)
I love Dick
*dick
To Chas Smith,
When you wrote, “an unsightly mole disappeared ?”, is that code that you know there’s a stab premium spy around these parts and want him ‘gone’ ?
If so, leave 1 million rupiah in a black attaché case behind the third palm tree on the left, and put the contract details in a manila folder under the widebrimmed hat on the nearby table with the half-full tall bintang and untouched nasi goreng at 7:30pm.
Please send any further correspondence to the team at the agency on..
[email protected]
Yours criminally,
Dishonest John
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Double J Single F remembers me… Shoulders!!!
But…
Knees!!!
https://youtu.be/s6c3D-z_bvo
“Australia somewhere below South Africa, Portugal, France.”
No…just down south.
That’s probably only the case at Kelly’s to help his four year old broken foot feel at home
I once traveled to China to compete in a world champs (of a different sport) 23 days after knee meniscus surgery, and my results were exactly as shitty as otherwise expected. He’ll be fine for the Oly’s.
Darts? Tiddlywinks? Sandcastling?
That’s how you know you’ve reach top tier party people. Can’t always call 911.
Here’s to a speedy recovery back to 100%.
Here’s to a speedy recovery knee to 100%.
Damn was looking forward to Billy Stairmand absolutely decimating Kelly at 2ft Chiba. Oh well guess he can just smash JJF instead.
I guess it doesn’t matter if it’s ping-pong, holding your breath, or surfing a comp in knee high Komigawa. Beating the goat at any competitive engagement is a top shelfer for sure!
Glad you guys went with Billy, Riccardo has no shot.
I’d hate to be Kelly’s jjf voodoo doll right now…or his kolohe one, for that matter
Jesus Christ Charles!! That’s his lady, Lauryn Cribb, which we told you already in the previous article. JohnsKnees thinks her boobs are really far from her head. I think its an optical illusion as she is quite the specimen in reality.
Since they married she goes by the name Lauren Florence though, at least that’s how she’s always credited in his sailing movies on the YouTube
I was just going off the insta but she refers to herself and Laurence and @lauryncribb. Got one hell of a rig.
Laurence has to be a combination of Lauren and Florence, so much wit……and distance between head and tits
Hahahaha
Come on, it’s enough of a sausage fest around here without putting the microscope on peoples wives.
Its just the photo that makes it look like that, I know she doesnt look like that.
Xelent Mod work.
A good slap works wonders
Ill take the credit.
Kelly is licking his chops, sticking pins into the knees of his JJF voodoo doll.
“Take (stab) that (stab) you (stab) bastard! (stab)”
They got an odd father-son relationship.
https://youtu.be/fRYmKQeIiNs
Thin hospital bed indeed! He’s made some prudent choices based his room decor.
That’s not a hospital bed, it a gurney for post surgery transport. And that’s not his room at home he decorates, it a post surgery recovery room in a hospital or surgery center.
Yep gurney in recumbent position.
Disagree. That’s his bedroom at momjohns where he lives with his wife (on left).
Only Ivan lives at home these days though.
Even Nathan moved out now he’s married.
I saw it in a gossip mag, whoops, I mean YouTube…
Its those spartan living conditions that made him the warrior he is. I thought maybe the 3 boys still bunked together and the women all slept in the living room.
Maybe arthroscopic surgery to remove some cartilage /meniscus. I have had that done. 3 small holes.
What’s recovery time?
It was years ago and I was in Indo less than three months later. Some of the AFL players have been getting full knee surgery and are back playing in three months these days.
Its 3 holes, one for camera, others for tools. You walk out of the surgery under your own power if you have an aggressive surgeon. I have had it 3 times as well and the physicians assistant literally pushed me off the table onto my feet when I woke up.
3-4 weeks if so
I’ve had the same thing, knee was shit, had surgery, back in water In 3 weeks knee feeling good