"Chaos, carnage and an occasional perfect barrel."
The Tahitian-born surfer Eimeo Czermak has been dragged from the water at Pipeline after suffering a compressed fracture of his T12 vertebrae on a horror day that almost took off the pretty face of Mason Ho.
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If the name sounds familiar it’s ‘cause Eimeo suffered pretty much the same injury one year ago almost to the day at the Vans Pipe Masters, the carrot-topped heartthrob writing,
“This was probably one of the hardest and scariest moments of my life. I don’t know if I can even talk about what happened after I left the contest so I’m gonna keep it to myself but I’m so happy and grateful to be alive and looking forward to heal.”
Surf fans were asked to help cover Eimeo’s medical costs, after limping away from hozzy with a one-hundred gee bill in his pocket. There was a little consternation from potential donors questioning why the kid was surfing Pipe without travel insurance and why Vans appeared to ignore the appear to ignore the kid after he left in the event all trussed up in an ambo.
Anyway, Eimeo has busted his back again on a day described by long-time North Shore photographer Brian Bielmann as “chaos, carnage and an occasional perfect barrel.
The injuries come only five days after North Shore charger Lucas Godfrey busted his back, his rescue involving a team of lifeguards and Kelly Slater who saw the wipeout from his back yard.
No word, yet, if Eimeo Czermak has set up another GoFundMe but Lucas sure do got one.
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Death and Taxes at the most dangerous wave in the world! Who knew?….Go fund me….
If you’ve ever been truly scorpioned, and not had damage you know how lucky you/I are! Back busters are lifelong pals, even after Dr. “Bones” McCoy level repair.
Eimeo has 377K followers ( I say this as we have to put up with fucking kook cunts and chicks with 10K followers on our feeds putting how to stand up on soft board videos and calling themselves digital content creators ) , and is putting barrels on his page that would have seemed like fantasy land 30 years ago, if it isn’t him doing it then who , it’s such a headfuck, like the biggest sport in the world is that MMA shit everyone loves, where cunts are getting paid to cripple each other and make themselves braindead, it feels like only logical that some rich cunt should not do an SSA ( Surfing survival anarchy ) event where surfers try to kill themselves in hell barrels but at least get paid something for it,
He’s a dumb cunt if he doesn’t have insurance.
Any serious injury isn’t good, and a bummer for both blokes.
Are they considered ‘pro’ surfers, whereby they earn their living from the sport ?
Or self-funded keen amateurs ?
Low Wide Stinkbug Stance (having had experience in the world of travel insurance sales) might be able to let us know if Eimeo would’ve been legally obliged to inform any potential insurance company of his intentions to surf heavy Pipe this year (as well as his pro/am status), considering his well-publicised incident last year…
I have no basis for this but I feel the crowd is the number 1 contributor to these injuries. spewing unbiased statistics I would suggest that 60% of these injury waves are pull backs if there are 15 people out rather than 60 because the person has likely been waiting multiple hours to even have a sniff at a wave and then in the moment being a few yards too deep doesn’t mean shit
surfing heavy pipe; it’s not if……it’s when.
wishing all the injured a speedy recovery
Ah fuck ! Felipe missed it !
he’ll be spewing
It’s the day we wait all year for!
Pip justified
Is there a go fund me yet? Aka traveling surfers health insurance.
hopefully he had travel insurance this time
Well if he did let’s hope he actually declared his previous injuries and paid the extra premium they would have charged him. I get hit with this everytime I travel from a previous issue. It’s annoying.