“I’m here, I’m still breathing, I’m walking, I’m talking…”
The beloved surf YouTuber Ben Gravy, who bears a “striking resemblance to Woody Harrelson”, has updated fans on the state of his collarbone following a horror wipeout at El Slammo in New Jersey last week.
Gravy, a high-end intermediate surfer who has almost two-hundred thousand followers, shattered his collar bone in four places at the experts-only wave in Longport, a pretty little Jersey borough pointed at the Atlantic.
“I never saw this coming. I went for a casual surf this morning & never, ever thought that I would end up with a shattered collarbone,” Gravy said. “I’m surprised, I’m baffled, I’m disappointed and I’m confused.”
Gravy, who is thirty-four and who surfed all fifty American states in 2017 for his insanely popular YouTube channel, gobsmacked his legion of fans today when he revealed the extent of the injury.
“It’s pretty shocking. The break is a lot worse than previously thought,” he says. “I thought I’d walk away clean and it’s not the case.”
Still, the reformed drunk, “I was getting wasted every day, ten, twenty cans,” is using his trademark optimism to get him through.
“I’m here, I’m still breathing, I’m walking, I’m talking,” he says.
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Woulda, coulda, shoulda.
Very embarrassing.
Grown married man calls his mother because he’s hurt, and then bitches her out.
His editor should be sacked.
Yes, you are. Embrace the loneliness and let us know how the 7-13ft forecast plays out.
I don’t know if you can blame Surfline for clicking on the wrong thing.
Woody Harrelson? Get your eyes checked!
What a whinny bitch. That was pretty embarrassing to watch. Skinny lycra wearing cyclist break these like twigs and are back racing shortly after. Pretty sure surfing is the safest sport on the planet. Prove me wrong.
Melanoma? That’s my best effort to prove you wrong.
there are plastic surfgeons who would like nothing better than to keep us coming back to carve deep ribbons thru the tissues of my bicep…one cut was enough…I would rather drown at sea! fall off a fleeting sailboat, sighing boat run over by a freighter, launch a dingy and shoot flaming arrows Viking style, or simply leap off the Huntington Pier…
The dude at the start of ben’s video is the ideal WSL-new-surf-fan. Southern/inland dialect, willing to buy and wear merchandise, clearly very passionate about the Gravy/Nubnation. Get Ben Gravy in the comms box and watch the cash roll in
All joking aside… in all seriousness just for a second here, and not just because I call dirty Jersey home as well (but much farther up the coast than El Slammo ‘ville), I’m pulling for Ben to recover fully. Hoping he has some type of insurance to deal with the criminal healthcare system in this country that’s about to inflict more pain on him than snapping the bone on a Jersey beachbreak…
Its easy to lampoon ben gravy and the ‘nubnation’ but i do kinda feel sorry for him now
why?
the medical merry-go-round is much more dangerous than surfing…
I’ve no respect for these super productive “sober for 20 years” types, it’s just too easy to be productive when sober. The real everyday heroes are those that get KOed on some wonky shit then crack on with work the next day.
Sorta interesting the stats smash app, WSL was making big bucks
And if you Whoop Strap your Smash Stat…Laird levels of performance
Jesus. H. Christ. What a sad whining little man. I have genuinely never seen such sooking and woe is me-ing over a non life changing nothing injury.
Hey you heard him. its serious. 3 weeks out of the water, no muscle loss, sore arm.
At Punta Abreojos in Baja, 17 years old, I went shoulder first to the rocky bottom and came up with my entire collar bone/shoulder skeletal structure BARELY contained beneath my skin. Like another millimeter worth of bone upthrust would’ve pierced my skin and been labeled a “compound” fracture. 48 hours of rutted roads and perhaps a gallon or two worth of tequila and mezcal later my buds got me across the frontier into a San Ysidro hospital. Good times, no YouTube sulkery. Hangover from the “painkiller” juice far worse feeling than the injury itself, at least I felt at the time. 20 years later, my fucking collarbone and shoulder joint and A/C joint protrude and ache, very acutely.
that’s a 10-point ride, MC…can’t feel bad for Ben, but I can feel bad for a local….
Abreojos has a long list of fallen travellers. Many raised on beachbreaks choose one last lipper instead of prudently kicking out. Have you been back?
Yes! 10 years slower and less reflexively cat-like, but sans injury
Here in Oz, a pineapple is $50
when OZ wins FIFA, all the Budweisers ultimately banned in Qatar will go down under…Bud gives me the runs, but then so does pineapple!
Probably wouldn’t have hurt himself if he was drunk. Let that be a lesson kids.
God protects children and drunks!
Damned injuries in the workplace really suck! Fingers crossed he has insurance but perhaps Dez you could start a go fund me pages for the poor blight!
Derek will set up a fans only account for him!
Derek will set up a *Trans only account for him!
Hopefully this rest will give him a chance to work with the real stars of the area.
Like Snookie, J-Wow, and The Situation…etc……
As an admitted Jersey lifer myself, I just knew this comment would be here…
Taken with Grace, Keith!
“your Muff-cabbage!”
Houston… We got a situation!
At that rate he will be done paying off his medical bills by the time he’s 64