On Surfing Injuries
It's come to my attention that my physical body is perhaps not as happy to go surfing as it once was. While the elation of riding virtually any size or sort of wave remains undiminished since I first stumbled to my feet on a dented and waterlogged old board at Sennen more than twenty years ago, the increasing occurrence, and current list, of minor bodily injuries has managed to break through my imagined youthfulness and inform me of it's ailments. Since this is usually via the conduit of pain, it has been difficult to ignore. Some of these ailments could be said to be partially self-inflicted - the groin injury occasioned by an upturned fin during a wipe-out, a bloody nose inflicted by someone bailing their board after dropping in on me. Tight hamstrings are a fact of life for surfers, but add the current twinge of Sciatica, a cricked neck that six months of exercises has failed to heal and a twisted knee caused by the above drop in, and you'll start to get the same mes...
