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J-Bay is full. Some people complain when the circus comes to town, but the truth is that we are in the midst of a global recession that doesn't want to stop, and the event brings a great injection into the local economy. The restaurants are trading, the guest houses are busy, and there are girls around who want to see some of the bands and who might or might not want to knob a pro surfer.

The waves were cooking at Supertubes, Jeffreys Bay with, 6ft sets. Royden Bryson was having a good session and was actually on his way in when the incident happened.

"I pulled into a barrel down at the bottom, and rode it for awhile." said Royden of the incident. "I tried to sneak out but the wave landed on my head and my shoulder. I just got totally compressed onto my board." With a fracture of the tibia and the fibula, Royden drifted down the point in extreme pain, and eventually made on to the beach. He was stabilised and given an analgesic, and sent on his way in the back of an ambulance.

"Obviously I'm pretty bleak about it," said Roy afterwards. "The waves are pumping and I was ready for this contest. I'll be out the water for a few months now."

theBOMBsurf wishes Royden a speedy recovery!

In the EC you're nowhere if you're a vegetarian. You can have any sort of weird diet, ovo-lacto-wheat-free-intolerant diet as long as it include eating serious amounts of meat. In J-Bay it's all about  biltong, braais, steak specials, lamb potjie and pork sausages. Meat Is Meat And A Man Must Eat is such a powerful slogan as opposed to, say, Vleis Is Moord or something.