Surfing: Kelly Slater shares horrific x-ray of broken foot

X-ray of Kelly Slater's broken right foot. Photo / @kellyslater

Surfing great Kelly Slater has shared an x-ray image after breaking his right foot at the J-Bay Open in South Africa.

The 45-year-old 11-time world champion posted the x-ray on his Instagram feed after suffering the injury when his board crashed into his foot.

Slater was competing against Brazilian Filipe Toledo in round three of the World Surf League event when the incident happened.

"You ever folded your entire foot backwards? If you try it sometime, this is what it might look like," Slater posted yesterday.

"I pulled into a barrel this morning and the whitewash bounced the board back into my foot as I hit the closeout, taking all the pressure into the metatarsals. Kinda like smashing my foot with a big hammer as hard as I can. Sorta feels like I'm giving birth out of my foot right now! I'm guessing surgery and 6 week holiday is in order. Not looking forward to 30 hour flight home before surgery though. Ouch!

"It sucks but so many people deal with such horrible things around this world everyday that a broken foot is pretty minor in the scheme of things. Sometimes a bad thing is a good thing. I'll make the best of my time off. #ThatsGonnaLeaveAMark #INeedElephantTranquilizers"

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You ever folded your entire foot backwards? If you try it sometime, this is what it might look like. I pulled into a barrel this morning and the whitewash bounced the board back into my foot as I hit the closeout, taking all the pressure into the metatarsals. Kinda like smashing my foot with a big hammer as hard as I can. Sorta feels like I'm giving birth out of my foot right now! I'm guessing surgery and 6 week holiday is in order. Not looking forward to 30 hour flight home before surgery though. Ouch! It sucks but so many people deal with such horrible things around this world everyday that a broken foot is pretty minor in the scheme of things. Sometimes a bad thing is a good thing. I'll make the best of my time off. #ThatsGonnaLeaveAMark #INeedElephantTranquilizers

A post shared by Kelly Slater (@kellyslater) on Jul 17, 2017 at 5:53am PDT