Climber:
Ethan Pringle

Injury: During this year’s ABS Nationals in Boulder, Colorado (held on Valentine’s Day), Pringle made a big “campus/dyno rose move,” according to his blog, ethanpringle.com, on Men’s Finals Problem #4 and blew out his shoulder.

Status: After getting an MRI and several doctor’s opinions, it seemed as if Pringle was suffering from a badly torn labrum. Three months post-injury, he decided to go ahead with surgery. “[They] drilled two holes in the front and the back, stuck cameras in there to make sure what they thought was actually torn was,” Pringle explained in an email. “Then they stitched it back together with, I'm assuming, some biodegradable stitches.” The op went smoothly, and Pringle started rehab in late-June.

In the meantime: “I visited NY for the first time...[and] I’m taking a couple classes at City College of San Francisco. It feels a bit weird to be sitting in a classroom after running around outside for the last five years.”

Moral of the story: Avoid big, campus/dyno rose moves at all costs.