See Kai Mckenzie’s triumphant return to stand-up surfing after losing leg to Great White shark

“We back bitches!”

Yeah, you know the story by now, but here’s a little recap if you’re coming in late.

Bonny Hills shredder Kai Mckenzie, part of that sexy Rage gang of underground surfers who don’t fit the mould of, say, a Hurley or Billabong surfer, was hit by a ten-foot Great White while surfing a break wall in Port Macquarie, back in July. 

Kai belted the shark even after it took off his right leg, made it to shore alive, but barely, where an off-duty copy ripped off his dog’s lead to fashion a tourniquet thereby saving the kid’s life.

His leg was miraculously washed ashore shortly after the attack where it was packed on ice, chucked on the car ferry that takes you back across the Hastings River and rushed, complete with cop escort to Port Macquarie Base Hozzy in the hope it could be reattached. 

Spoiler alert: It couldn’t.

But Kai Mckenzie ain’t weeping in bed and lamenting his misfortune.

One month ago, he paddled out at the same joint where he was hit, bouncing down the sand on his one remaining leg and stealing into little tubes as a surfboard-riding booger.

 

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And, earlier today, on a late spring day so perfect it feels blessed by the gods, Kai rode his first waves, stand up, minus what most of us would regard as the crucial rear stilt. 

He writes simply,

“We back bitches.”