"I slammed on my back on the bottom of the barrel. Right when I slammed, I felt a snap in my lower back, right on my spine.”

Only one month ago, the sexy powerlifter turned Only Fans star Nathan Florence was rushed to hospital by guy-pal Kai Lenny after a wipeout during a twenty-foot day at Jaws, also known as Peahi, a wild outer reef on the island of Maui.

“I got picked up and I fell through the barrel. I fell a lot longer than I thought,” said Florence. “After the initial impact, I got sucked up and fell again. As I was falling, I was pulling my vest. I just fell a lot farther than I thought and my body was in a weird position. I just slammed on my back on the bottom of the barrel, which is just hard water. Right when I slammed, I just felt kind of a snap in my lower back, right on my spine.”

Florence’s account is harrowing, the viewer feeling the crack of vertebrae and resultant jump of his pulse as x-rays are taken.

Now, Florence has taken to social media to credit his powerlifting routine for saving him from a life in a wheelchair.

“Deadlifts are to thank, I believe,” Florence told the oft-controversial adult learner website The Inertia.

In the latest instalment of his wildly popular vlog, the twenty eight year old breaks down the wave, the wipeout, accident and his rehab program.

Essential.

"I woke up with so much fear this morning."

In this just-released edit, we are gifted ring seats to the three-time NSSA champ, runner-up to Zeke Lau’s Ultimate Surfer and part-time model Koa Smith charging like a bull at a North Shore outer reef during the Eddie swell.

The behelmeted Smith is twenty-seven and, as you know, surfs with the contented and dreamy look of the female suckling her young.

In one instance, the young lion swings his board as the great wave approaches and he turns his sad yellow eyes to the beach; nothing is going to stop him, not even the growing fermentation in his bowels.

“I woke up with with much fear this morning and having so many thoughts of how easily I could’ve said, no I’m not going to go out and let that fear determine what I was going to do… instead of having a moment I’ll remember for the rest of my life.”

Essential.

"Right when I slammed, I just felt kind of a snap in my lower back, right on my spine.”

The Hawaiian-born brother of US surf Olympian John John Florence has posted a harrowing point-of-view angle of the twenty-foot wave that almost sent him straight to a quadriplegic ward.

Nathan Florence, a twenty-eight-year-old married powerlifter who runs both YouTube and Only Fans channels, tested his ability in the most malicious of conditions only two be rushed to hospital by his guy-pal Kai Lenny after a terrific wipeout.

“I got picked up and I fell through the barrel. I fell a lot longer than I thought,” said Florence. “After the initial impact, I got sucked up and fell again. As I was falling, I was pulling my vest. I just fell a lot farther than I thought and my body was in a weird position. I just slammed on my back on the bottom of the barrel, which is just hard water. Right when I slammed, I just felt kind of a snap in my lower back, right on my spine.”

The POV footage gives the viewer the most goddamnest feeling of being snapped in two by the hand of God.

“I know this video ends quite dramatically,” writes Florence. “I want you all to know that I am healing up and my back is feeling alot better I think I just got absolutely flexed!! Any way thanks for watching and what a way to start the new year with a BANG hahaha!”

Wildly essential.