Feeling like a pretty lucky guy in 2016 already. Thanks for all the text and well wishes.

This morning I surfer pumping Burleigh Point and went head first into the shallow sandbank breaking my neck my C 4 & C 5. I'm extremely lucky and have feeling in my arms and legs and movement and mobility.
Probably the scariest moment of my life not being able to feel or move my left arm for a while.
Long road to recovery and in this collar for a couple months with restricted movement but not near as bad as some. Waiting for results of the MRI to know full extent.
Super lucky and grateful.

G'day Wes stoked your OK mate and very lucky it was the lower part of your neck, you'll make a full recovery fast. Going to miss watching you in the ironman series you WEAPON. It's the best I've seen Burleigh in years.

Wow - scary stuff! Speedy recovery!! I guess it is a warning to us all about what can happen...

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cantSUPenough said..
Wow - scary stuff! Speedy recovery!! I guess it is a warning to us all about what can happen...

Another bloke broke his neck today at Burleigh (Heavy) it should be on the 6:00PM NEWS

In 2000 I was surfing 6-8ft G-land I saw this bloke on a kneeboard cop the biggest flogging ( he should not have been out there sorry to say this but he was a kook ) we got him to the beach and I gaffer taped his head and his body to his board so he could not move, as he could not feel his arms and his legs. His girlfriend was loosing it at the locals, I had to be rude to her and make her pull her head in as the locals don't give a f##k about us white people. Anyway the poor guy had to stay taped to his board all night, we got a helicopter from Bali to pick him up the next morning, he was very, very lucky he broke his 5th vertebrae in his neck, I Dr Phil was on the money. He ended up in a Darwin hospital and made a full recovery.

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Downwinder said..

cantSUPenough said..
Wow - scary stuff! Speedy recovery!! I guess it is a warning to us all about what can happen...

Another bloke broke his neck today at Burleigh (Heavy) it should be on the 6:00PM NEWS

In 2000 I was surfing 6-8ft G-land I saw this bloke on a kneeboard cop the biggest flogging ( he should not have been out there sorry to say this but he was a kook ) we got him to the beach and I gaffer taped his head and his body to his board so he could not move, as he could not feel his arms and his legs. His girlfriend was loosing it at the locals, I had to be rude to her and make her pull her head in as the locals don't give a f##k about us white people. Anyway the poor guy had to stay taped to his board all night, we got a helicopter from Bali to pick him up the next morning, he was very, very lucky he broke his 5th vertebrae in his neck, I Dr Phil was on the money. He ended up in a Darwin hospital and made a full recovery.

Your not only very handsome DW but a clever bugger as well.

Get well Wes, if this sort of accident can happen to a waterman of the caliber of Wes Berg it can happen to anybody.

Surf safe everyone.

ET.

Heavy. Wes is a legend of a bloke and a legend ironman. Has to be the best Personal trainer going around for ocean atheletes.
Hope he makes a full recovery real quick.
Must of been a knarly fall into the bank.

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cantSUPenough said..
Wow - scary stuff! Speedy recovery!! I guess it is a warning to us all about what can happen...

Another bloke broke his neck today at Burleigh (Heavy) it should be on the 6:00PM NEWS

In 2000 I was surfing 6-8ft G-land I saw this bloke on a kneeboard cop the biggest flogging ( he should not have been out there sorry to say this but he was a kook ) we got him to the beach and I gaffer taped his head and his body to his board so he could not move, as he could not feel his arms and his legs. His girlfriend was loosing it at the locals, I had to be rude to her and make her pull her head in as the locals don't give a f##k about us white people. Anyway the poor guy had to stay taped to his board all night, we got a helicopter from Bali to pick him up the next morning, he was very, very lucky he broke his 5th vertebrae in his neck, I Dr Phil was on the money. He ended up in a Darwin hospital and made a full recovery.

You pretty much saved the guy's life - well done!

Ah , the shallow bank at Burleigh ,I know it well . Got smashed on it last August and ended up having a stroke a few days later from the damage to my neck and then a little later a heart attack and bypass surgery. I've only just started paddling around Tallebudgera creek on new race board(Sunova Faast} The board maybe Faast but i'm definitely very slow. Flat water paddling for now or maybe forever.
I'm no doctor but I think the very heavy impact shook things loose in my arteries and led to my problems.
So people and friends in Burleigh "Watch out for that bloody shallow bank at Burleigh Point at low tide" . Or maybe at 67 I'm just not as unbreakable as I used to be.

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Ah , the shallow bank at Burleigh ,I know it well . Got smashed on it last August and ended up having a stroke a few days later from the damage to my neck and then a little later a heart attack and bypass surgery. I've only just started paddling around Tallebudgera creek on new race board(Sunova Faast} The board maybe Faast but i'm definitely very slow. Flat water paddling for now or maybe forever.
I'm no doctor but I think the very heavy impact shook things loose in my arteries and led to my problems.
So people and friends in Burleigh "Watch out for that bloody shallow bank at Burleigh Point at low tide" . Or maybe at 67 I'm just not as unbreakable as I used to be.

Hey mate thats no good, glad to hear you are on the mend. Stoked you can still get out on the board and enjoy the water it!!

Heavy **** .......speedy recovery from the west coast
Beach breaks barrels hmmmmmmmmm ......nasty mothers .........