Eleven-time world surfing champion Kelly Slater will be out for up to a half year in the wake of softening his foot up the J-Bay Open in South Africa.
The 45-year-old American was taken from the water at Jeffreys Bay and hurried to healing facility after he was struck by his board preceding his second-round warmth.
Slater said the episode was "like crushing my foot with a major mallet".
Composing on Instagram, he said he is probably going to require in the vicinity of four and a half year to recoup.
In a prior post, which incorporated a X-beam of his foot, he kept in touch with: "You at any point collapsed your whole foot in reverse? On the off chance that you attempt it at some point, this is the thing that it may resemble.
"Sorta feels like I'm conceiving an offspring out of my foot at this moment.
"It sucks yet such a large number of individuals manage such horrendous things around this world consistently that a softened foot is really minor up the plan of things. Now and again a terrible thing is something to be thankful for.".
Then, Australia's Mick Fanning and Brazilian Gabriel Medina were pulled from the water in Jeffreys Bay after a shark was spotted swimming into the opposition zone.
Fanning, 36, got away from a shark assault while contending in a similar occasion two years back.
Slater took to Instagram to uncover the degree of the damage and post a x-beam of his smashed foot. "Have you at any point collapsed your whole foot in reverse?" he composed. "Kinda like crushing my foot with a major sledge as hard as possible. Sorta feels like I'm conceiving an offspring out of my foot at the present time." He added that he anticipated that would need to experience surgery on his foot.
Slater had showed up in great shape in beating Julian Wilson and Kanoa Igarashi in the opening round, to win through straightforwardly to cycle three. In any case, it was Filipe Toledo who stole the show on his arrival from a boycott for endeavoring to storm the judges' tower in Rio, setting out the benchmark with a 9.63 ride took after by an ideal 10 to see off Igarashi in the second round.
