Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1185 - Kelly Slater
Uploaded: 2018-10-23T02:28:54.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1185 - Kelly Slater' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-10-23. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1185 - Kelly Slater' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2018-10-23. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1185 - Kelly Slater

four three two one kelly slater we've been talking about doing this for how
long a couple years yeah
a while thanks for having me thanks for being here i'm glad we finally got a
chance to do it
what are you in california for i know you broke your foot right i broke my foot
real bad i um how'd
you do that my well my girlfriend's from san clemente and uh her family lives
there and uh so
we kind of live here we're not moving around too much so i'm just kind of here
right now i'm not
competing i broke my foot i was surfing in south africa about 15 months ago and
i was just on a
wave that i wouldn't consider a very big wave nobody would really consider
dangerous and it all kind of
closed out which is you know when it all breaks at once i just pulled in the
thing because i was going
to sort of wash in on the rocks right where that was and change boards and uh i
was practicing i had to
compete in about two hours from then so i was just testing out different boards
for some reason i wasn't
riding the board i was planning on riding competition so i was going to come in
and change
and switch to my normal board and i just pulled this wave and just i kind of
hesitated like usually
you either ride those out and stay on your board or you jump off and i was kind
of between the two
and i kind of lifted my front foot off my back foot my leg was straight because
i was kind of going to
i think i was going to jump off and as my foot got my leg got locked back
straight the board flipped in
oh against the toes and it just broke the top of my foot in half oh like
immediate like oh my god yeah
we're looking at a photograph of the x-ray right now and it's like every bone
it snapped well what
you can't see so the do you know are you are you aware of the liz frank joint
no which is like that's
where the first big metatarsal comes together so that first big joint on top of
the foot there
why is it called the liz frank joint liz frank was a doctor i think that's what
i i could we could look
this up i think that was the person that did the original surgery which when
you used to break your
foot in a stirrup back 100 years ago they used to cut your foot off oh god damn
it yeah so so that was
what what it uh that was kind of how this sort of joint got famous but normally
what happens is
those toes those two bones right there the first and second metatarsal can
either spread
or converge one way or the other and that's usually what a liz frank fracture
is i had the best of the
three which is i had a crack you can just see on the right side of yeah if you
go down with the cursor
right there just a little lower there's a little crack right there uh right
there on that corner
and then the next one broke across you can just see right there it's cracked
across and then so it
kind of went in a line up and across the foot and then the other two are just
destroyed yeah the third
one displaced the fourth one shattered in about eight pieces the doctor said he
lost count putting
them back together and then you know you you would know from injuries the
problem with when there's
shatters of bone they're not getting the blood flow so it's not like a four or
five week repair job it's
like that was like nine months before that thing was back together properly so
when they do that how do
they piece that shattered one back together again uh delicately and they put
like a mesh over so i got
to kind of like figure out how to well i had i had a plate on the liz frank and
then i had a a plate
play a kind of a bridge across the third and fourth and so they kind of meshed
it all together and then
uh i think i had 16 screws combined in all that god damn man it was it was it
was brutal
the problem with it was i did it in south africa where i wasn't going to get
surgery
so i had to wait for the swan to go down for about six days before i could fly
oh god because they
thought the foot was going to swell too much because it was already swollen
from the event so i iced the
out of my foot for like you know five days and sat there and watched
unfortunately the waves were
perfect so i was sitting on the beach just watching perfect waves you know it's
like that's like as
painful as the injury to a surfer you know it's like watching a bunch of elk
walk by in front of you and and not
not scared of you right right and uh um so i i sat there because the the whole
time prior to to me
being injured while i was there for like two weeks the waves weren't very good
so i broke my
foot and the waves got great oh so i had to watch it so it's that's painful for
us but uh so then i
waited for this one to go down then i it's two red eyes to get back was there
no way you could get
it fixed in south africa i maybe could have but then i was probably looking at
staying in africa for
a month or more and and also i didn't know the quality sort of level of quality
of a doctor i was
going to get there and i i got a doctor i work with here and i called him
straight away i said look
i it's my fourth broken foot but i've never broken it like this usually it's
like let it heal for four
weeks and you're surfing and it's all from surfing yeah and all in the same way
oh really really pretty
much the board going back against the foot um because and usually it happens
when i'm you know
i don't know how well versed you are in surfing but when i'm tube riding and
usually with my back to
the wave which has happened two or three times so i'm in the wave the the lip
pitches over and lands
but when that lands it sends a shock back into the wave like you know when the
lip hits flat water that lip
some of the energy goes down and some disperses out and up and some comes back
into the tube so if it
does that and you're in the wrong spot the board will flip into your feet but
oh wow normally what
we do is we're when you're backside barrel ride a lot of times you're grabbing
the rail so you kind of
have both your feet and your hand on it so you can handle that shock but if you're
just going no hand
backside it's usually a pretty big intense barrel and and so that lip has a lot
of energy and it
shoots a ton of force back towards you and if it hits your board just wrong it
can flip into your
foot and break it do you know anybody else has broken their foot like you like
that not this bad um
one guy on tour broke his foot uh pretty bad requiring surgery this year that
looks horrible
man how long was it before you can walk no you're walking totally normal now so
how long has it been
since the surgery yeah so so i had surgery in end of july last year and then
walking normal wasn't until
like maybe december january wow december well december i competed again but i
probably shouldn't have
but we're we're at pipeline in hawaii which is you're not doing maneuvers it's
not a small wave
kind of competent if the waves are small i wouldn't have surfed since it's
bigger it's a little easier
because you take off and kind of trim a straight line right so you're kind of
going straight you know
even though you're riding the barrel you're kind of going straight but are you
conscious of your foot
being compromised yeah wow i don't know i just i that's my favorite event in
the world so i just
didn't want to miss it but oh if you broke your foot again yeah yeah but then
you know the bones were
pretty good back together then and i could walk somewhat without pain and if i
put myself in a real
vulnerable vulnerable position on a wave i would kind of maybe jump off you
know i wouldn't really push
it's not worth winning a contest to like break my foot again but i'm sure to be
able to surf pipeline
with no one out is it's kind of worth a little risk now when you are healing is
there anything they give
you that can accelerate bone healing or is there any supplements or a lot of it
is kind of i mean it's
the furthest place from your heart right so and it's it's down at the bottom of
your body so you got
to kind of get that foot up like a lot of times i'll sit against a wall and
elevate my foot and let it
completely flush out you know when you're a kid and you kind of hold your hand
and somebody pushed
all the blood out of your hand you ever do that one no oh it's like this trick
where somebody holds
your your wrist your your arteries so no blood's going in you push all the hand
all the blood out
and then you let it go and it's like a little spider web feels like if somebody
goes like that it
would feel like a spider web i did do that when i was a kid yeah so i just
forgot about i just kind of
imagine that's what i was doing with my foot up and like oh okay all the blood's
getting out of my foot now
and um uh but did you like research whether there's something that accelerates
bone healing or
you can use magnets like some magnets yes some people believe magnets help
increase the circulation
and thus the the uh especially a rotating magnet because it kind of creates a
force field around
your foot really yeah supposedly i mean around the magnets but is this like are
these legit people
or these like these are like theories healers i'm a healer an energy healer
well i'm just saying what
i've heard people believe so the first time i broke my foot uh a guy a chiropractor
guy i had gone to
he's like just when you go to sleep it's not gonna hurt you just put it on your
foot and i was actually
competing uh five weeks after i broke that foot so i don't know if it helped or
not but i just sleep and
it was near my foot and maybe it helped i don't know it takes six weeks for a
bone to heal right
doesn't it when you're young it takes four weeks and then it takes two more
weeks for the calcium to
properly fill in so like the if you take an x-ray after four weeks it'll still
look like there's a
whole like a break there but apparently the bone has sutured itself back but
the calcium has not
filled in to make it totally strong ah that's what i was told by my doctor on
this last one because i
asked every question possible why is it still look broken why is it and he was
telling me you know
it's not till you get enough blood flow and then it's healed and then it's once
there's the proper
blood flow in the bone then you get the calcium coming back in the only thing
that i've heard
that really is supposed to accelerate healing is the hyperbaric chamber did you
try that at all
which i didn't do i had one sort of at hand in hawaii i could have gone to but
i didn't oh it's
supposed to i know that uriah faber used that a lot after he fought jose aldo
aldo kicked the
out of his leg and his leg was really badly swollen it was horrible no break
did he break the bone no
it didn't break the bone but it was it was so bad it was like his left leg was
literally twice the
size yeah i remember i've seen the i've seen the fight i heard you talking
there it is right there
there's a photo yeah and in the fight you're talking about look at the color on
his leg it was so nasty
that was uh aldo when he was in his prime and he didn't see those kicks you
couldn't see his kicks
coming he was just like fast he doesn't even load up it's just there god that's
probably right afterwards
it must have felt broken it feels horrible just to get hit once man i mean uriah
is so tough to just
take that over and over and over again like he did yeah well can you check
those i mean what you can
can you turn into them a little the problem is when you get hit what just
getting hit once by a guy
who's really good like a peter ertz or someone who's like a really good leg
kicker they hit you once and
you're you're not even able to lift your leg upright well think of a charley
horse a guy gives you in
school when you're a kid yeah how bad that it's probably 10 times that's way
worse than 10 times
yeah whatever it is there's uh ernesto hoost is probably one of the greatest
like not probably
definitely one of the greatest leg kickers of all time and there's a video
called the perfect leg kick
by ernesto hoost and it just shows you like a compilation of him landing leg
kicks o