"He was rushed to hospital and was in the operating room for 11 hours reconstructing his leg and both arms."
The Narrabeen-born surfer, Jesse Faen, magazine editor, WSL broadcaster, peer and best friends with Ozzie Wright and Vaughan Blakey, has been critically injured in a motorcycle accident on the morning of his fiftieth birthday.
In a message posted to Instagram by the mama of his kid Gypsy, Jessie Samedi, she wrote:
Jesse was hit on his motorcycle by a car doing an illegal U-turn on Lincoln Boulevard last Saturday the morning of his 50th birthday party. He was immediately rushed to the hospital and soon after in the operating room for 11 hours reconstructing his leg and both arms. It went well as he had an amazing team of doctors and seems there will be more operations and procedures in his near future.
So far the goal has been keeping him comfortable and trying to get as much rest as possible. He’s currently at UCLA Westwood and will be for the foreseeable future and then transferred to a skilled nursing facility where he’ll start his rehabilitation. This will absolutely be a marathon for Jesse. We so grateful to say the least as we are lucky he’s he with us still.
Because Jesse has been essentially training his whole life as an athlete – we have faith in his bodies ability to heal, the tenacity and discipline of his mind and comradery and love of his community to get him through this difficult journey. We appreciate all the love and we will soon send out some information on how you can help and contribute support and start visits. For now – sending love, encouragement, insight or any sort of resources that you may think could be useful for his healing would be inspiring and helpful.
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Jesse Faen is one of those wildly rare men who was blessed with the good looks of a model and the surfing ability of a pro, which is usually a cold recipe for disaster but ol Jess balanced his yin with plenty of yang, writing, broadcaster etc.
More on his situation as it comes.
I pretty much only ride the canyons around Malibu and beyond. And I never assume that a car actually sees me. Sorry for anyone who has to ride the streets and freeways, no fun and only danger. And those fucking idiots that make the left and U turns in front of an approaching bike need to be eliminated.
Straight outta Dee Why!!
Motorbikes are all good till you get hit.
never heard of Jesse but hope he gets better .
2 broken arms is about as bad as it gets
Yep truly fucked
https://youtu.be/9boJzehrAq0?si=OKETqwiHag6g-N6d
Everyone’s got a Bali scooter story of sorts
seen a mate accidently throttle to hard in traffic at the lights. Some how puts the bike up the back of a car on the back wheel but manages to stay on & pull it down, as though his embarrassment willed him not to fall. Makes out it didn’t happen & continues on to the beach. No idea why the car didn’t chase him..
cuts & scrapes everywhere on his leg, ask him what happened & he says he doesn’t know..obviously didn’t see me in his rear view mirror a car length behind him. Lucky outcome & fucking funny to witness.
Yep, that’s how AB went to the great beyond.
Was a fucken shame that happened …
And Kym Thompson, and rick griffin. Probably a pretty long list.
Jeff Smith from la jolla shores RIP
Throttled into oncoming lane in rural Krui, brain froze, kept throttle on while trying to brake at same time since they’re on the same fucking handle, ditch coming my way, dropped to a slide and fell into the concrete ditch with the bike on top of me. Walked away with cut leg and toes and busted mirrors. Locals came to pick me and the scooter out of the ditch. Told them thanks and the gringo gave them a good story to laugh at for a week. If a car had been coming the other way, or worse, a truck, I’d have been smashed on the road. Got back to the surf camp and tried to play it off. Two days later the manager calls me outside and asked what happened to the mirrors. I had one under the seat and gave it to him, said I wrecked. He said the lady in the kitchen is upset as it was her family’s scooter and they needed it to rent out and make money. I said I get it and to have her name a price for what’d it take to fix it. He came back 2 hours later with a price and I said have her name the honest price of what she wants to fix it and I’ll pay it. 2 hours later it had doubled and I paid it. I said make sure she is happy and doesn’t feel burned. He said everything is perfect. I’ll never ride a moped again, let alone in Indo, I wanted to eat good food at the camp and not worry about something sketchy ending up in my dishes, and the cost of my life vs a few mirrors busted on the road can’t compare. Also lucked out the cuts weren’t too bad so I didn’t have to worry about them turning septic and stay out of the water. Yeah, can’t imagine how many people, locals and tourists alike, are getting fucked up in moped accidents every day all over Indo and SE Asia for that matter.
Damn.. hoping he’s alright. Moto’s are so fun but so so dangerous. Literally every single person I know that’s ridden for long enough ends up getting skittled. Hanging with a homie today that had his leg “de gloved ” (look it up if you have a strong stomach) due to a fuckhead pulling out of a driveway and sending homie in the air for about 30m into a stopped bus. Slid along the road, as he landed before going under said bus. 5mths later and he’s still forgets his own name sometimes, and the leg.. goddam.. Skin peeled off it like some kind of broiled meet off a bone.
Moto’s – amazing fun, but in the roads, not worth risking not crossing paths with retarded drivers.
Nobody search up photos of de-gloving. Yike.
Right!! I did pre-amble it. Like a b-grade horror come to life. My mate got a laugh from that comment DR – He and I thank you. It’s been pretty dark for him for a while.
He’s not down here having fun with the rest of us losers?
Nah not a surfer.
Amazing skater though – Til the accident.. and hopefully again after.
I work on an oil rig. If something fucked up happens, we’ll get a slide how on it a few weeks later. Obviously no rigs allowed on fingers outside but even those photos, fucked as they are, are tame compared to the bad ones.
weird thing is how many safety officers ride motorbikes even though in every other enterprise, such a contraption would be banned due to being unsafe.
Haha cfmeu oh&s reps ride Harleys to the job
The day you start riding a bike on the streets, you’ve got one foot in the grave! There’s f IDIOTS out here behind the wheels of death sleds. Just not worth the odds…
💯 spot on
My eldest boy asked me for a bike. I said no. End of story
Not IF, but WHEN!
Got tossed on a jump one time.
Helmet meet rock…Rock meet Helmet.
Luckily it was on a dirt course and I was pretty geared up and had a good Shoei that suffered a nasty crack.
Stopped riding after that.
The grave would be preferable to catastrophic injuries I believe.
Crotch rockets only go in one direction, and quickly at that.
Even worse are the people who decide they’re going to learn to ride on the streets without at least 5 years of experience riding dirt bikes. Acquaintance of mine had a fiancée who decided she wanted to learn to ride with him and he didn’t have the gumption to tell her, “no fucking way are learning to ride a motorcycle on a Harley.”
Two months after she buys her Sportster, she’s riding alone over Ortega highway, hits a patch of dirt and doesn’t know how to deal with the fish tail, and then gets essentially cut in half by a big rig behind her that couldn’t avoid her.
The guy sold his bike after that and stopped riding altogether
Nasty. Sending love to Jesse and the fams
That Jesse Faen truly one of a kind. Praying.