July 25th: Who says surfing isn't dangerous? Jaimal's head wound

Photo: Straight Out Productions™ ©2006

Tim Zigler, Jared, Emir, Jaimal, and I all surfed north jetty. Jai wasn't having the best session. For a couple of hours he didnt get much. Then this nugget came to him, he did a sick snap off the lip and then pulled into a little cylinder. I think he was just a tiny bit off balance when he pulled in and since the barrel was kinda small he did not have much room to negotiate. When he fell off his board he lost place of it under water. He had no leash on, witch might have made it worse for keeping track of his board. when he came to the surface the board shot backwards, popping out of the water like a possesed creature. The center fin nailed him just above the left eyebrow, leaving a pretty deep gash. I was out the back with ziggler when this happened. We saw Jared and Emir checking jaimal head but we were too far away to tell what was going on. Tim said ,"I think I just saw blood on his face!" Then Jaimal started paddeling straight in. That was when my stomache dropped because I knew he was hurt. I started heading for the beach and passed emir who was on the back out. He said ,"Jaimal needs to go get stitched up... it looks like someone with a metal finger just poked him in the head...!" Most people would have got stitches but jaimal's ok with a butterfly bandage!! -VA

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