Less than a month ago, Aussie surfer Ethan Ewing, then ranked number two in the world, wiped out during a warmup session at Teahupo’o, breaking his L3 and L4 vertebrae. “I hit the reef really hard at teahupoo the other morning fracturing bones in my lower back,” Ethan wrote. “The wipeout was a huge shock and I’m super devastated…”