Fun fact: concussions can change your mood. When filming this, I didn't realize I had a concussion. (The doctors checked my eyesight and helped me craft my story about the 50 ft wave, with the shark and the child I saved, but they didn't mention a concussion). The day after I filmed this, I felt really down and depressed. Then 2 days letter, felt happy again, like mood whiplash. I found out a week later I had a concussion and would have definitely not filmed the JWST video the same day, had I known. A dire warning for the lot of you!

Reminds me of a quote I read a while back, "we are all a victim of physics." Glad you're OK now and didn't have any permanent damage to your eye!

I am glad she's okay and still able to explain everything with physics despite having concussions

So Glad you are on the mend. I just discovered your YT channel and it is awesome. It has also inspired me to seriously think that maybe I should get back into doing science outreach /communication again and maybe some day having a YT channel too. Best of luck

Plot twist: Diana actually got this from fight club. But of course the first rule is you don't talk about fight club.

Only Diana could go, "There was interesting physics that happened to my face!"

someone: "what happened to your face" she: *PHYSICS*

A similar thing happened to my friend when I was attempting to teach her to surf. She fell off, then brought her head up just as a wave sent the board into her nose. I didn't realise until she took her hands away to show streams of blood pouring down over her mouth! Plot twist though - she always hated the bump she had all her life prior on the bridge of her nose and she got it fixed for free as part of the 'repair'. Thank heavens we live in the UK

Explains physics behind getting face broken, ends with pun. Classic Dianna.

Dianna: Also Dianna: “There was actually some interesting physics involved.”

I have to say, your smile just lights up my day, even when it's beat up, and your happy energy makes me smile. It's such a joy watching your videos and getting excited about stuff with you.

The eerie thing about watching this video is that she was merely a few months away from a life changing event. Since then, It's been a long tough road for her. I truly hope she gets well soon.

Lucky you didn't lose the eye. Just glad you're mostly okay coming out of this. Kind of awesome that you're turning thins into a teaching/learning experience

*“Rain or shiner.”* Brilliant. It’s always reassuring to know that anyone can make a dad joke. I’m glad you’re ok, it sounds like it’s a common accident from the comments. When I was learning to ride a friend said that newbies (me) use foam boards so they don’t get their teeth knocked out.

Really sorry to hear of your accident Dianna and i hope you're ok hun? Hopefully you'll heal soon and the bruising is a good sign that it's already doing that. You poor thing!, lol! Virtual hugs!

A month late but glad everything came out okay! The physics behind everything is really intriguing, and is a good teaching tool! Side note...I love/am jealous of the Starset shirt

Glad you didn't lose sight! Love to see your true self come out in silly videos like this. You're light hearted even in these circumstance. Makes me smile, thank you :)

Concussions are no joke. Your emotions change too it is strange how they effect you differently depending on the situation. Be safe woman! Hopefully you heal fast and feel better soon. Just be careful.

Glad you're in good spirits and doing well in your healing! I've had incidents while surfing but not that one! I've also had numerous concussions, particularly in my youth (some with busted noses), from wrestling to baseball to firefighting. I might have CTE from all that but what can ya do? Press on through rain or shiner! Take care of yourself and get back to physicsing when you're ready!

Get well soon!! Thank you for your insightful and enjoyable videos!

I love how happy you got when you realized the shiner pun! Hope you heal with no bad side-effects!

Wishing you a speedy recovery. My buddy had his eye socket fractured a few years ago, also lost some vision. Happy that damage was minimal.

Just glad your eye is not damaged! Really appreciate your humor through such an ordeal! Fast and complete recovery!

Just glad you are ok and I'm sure you'd still draw dates looking like that! Found your channel and the nerd in me had to subscribe.. Ok, I really dig those eye-bags.. 🥰

I am glad you are okay, I had a soccer ball kicked directly into my eye when the opposing player was attempting to send it downfield (about a 90mph) kick and it caused a retina scar and permanent blind spot that could have led to a detachment. I just recommend covering your other eye and checking for any new blind or fuzzy spots as you heal. If they did not photograph your retina it may be a good idea too. Doing a blind spot test might be worthwhile too as your other eye compensates and you may not realize there is some damage.

Get well soon! Great video and it's inspiring to see people openly take L's and use em to learn/teach!

Wishing you a fast and complete recovery from everything

I am praying all the more for you, Dianna! I know that shiner hurts you, because you were so careful to not touch it. Please give us an update when you're all healed.😍

And here I was hoping that you were going to FINALLY disclose your involvement in a certain underground fighting organization, but yeah, your story was good too. Heal up and thanks for sharing!

love how you turned this into a physics video 🤣 never ever changer , you're the best and get well soon!

Heal up soon Dianna, glad to hear it wasn't more serious (hope you have a cool scar) 🤕

Thanks! Just discovered you. Took a very little time to know you are for real. I saw an earlier video - I'm trying to remember who you interviewed!!! I remember, but you were the highlight. Thanks. It will be fun to follow you.

So glad you're ok! I was surfing back in the 90s. Took a tumble with a wave, but the board somehow turned belly up and one of the fins managed to slice through the achilles tendon on my right foot. There was so much blood.

I got biffed in the face by a team mate's elbow playing dodgeball some, six or so years ago. Basically in the same spot, injury looked really similar. And I've got to say, the way you described the relief at realising you could still see out of the injured eye... Oooh boy! I relate to that!!

Rain or Shiner is hilarious. This is the 5th video on your channel that I have watched and I am hooked. I love that you are authentic and can laugh at yourself and the things that can affect our channel. You also kept true to your brand and kept talking about the physics slide when all I kept wanting to ask was the gorry stuff like how it felt to get hit, how was the Urgent Care experience, what were the logistics of getting to the Urgent Care, and what was the blood loss like? Good on you for staying to the physics.

So glad you’re recovering quickly! When I saw your twitter post, my jaw hit the floor!

I loved that you shared this, it shows you’re a real person so makes mistakes and has accidents, have you ever talked about the physics of surfing? …I’m a fairly new subscriber to your channel and haven’t gone through your entire video history

Glad to see that you're taking it like a champ, and all is well for the most part. I took a mulligan on yesterday. Broke 2 toes and lost a nail. lol So I feel ya. Keep smiling and all will get better.

Love your energy. We all miss you, get well. Physics Princess.

I have all the notifications on yet YT waited 3 weeks to put this in my feed (grrrrr!) I guess the good news is you're probably all healed by now except for maybe a little bruise that is easily covered up with makeup. Thanks for sharing your boo boo with us and glad you're okay!

Oh, Diana, I'm so glad that you're fine. It could have been worse by what you relate, but fortunatelly it wasn't. I hope you get over it soon, and I'm loving your optimism when you focus on the magnificent new colours that you have on your face

Glad you’re okay! Still lovely and brilliant, as always =]

The look on the eye Dr face when you explaining what happened to your eye priceless. Glad you ok.

I am sorry that you had this fall and wish you a speedy recovery girl. Get well soon!

You are still gorgeous, even with a dotted eye. Hope you recover quickly and continue to bend my mind almost to the point of insanity. Seriously, I hope all is well.

You are awesome! Thanks for sharing! Didn’t know anything about surfing 🏄‍♀️ and what could happen. (Mountain girl here). A scar will probably still be pretty cool!

Just a wholehearted THANK YOU for answering the question in the title immediately and moving on, not trying to stretch it out for time.

It looks good! I’m sure you gave back more than you got! I had a similar injury bodysurfing on Lake Michigan, years ago.

This happened to me many years ago. LOL. The board came right in my eyebrow. Tragic. I kept surfing till my friends shouted me out of water because my face was full of blood.

For every action there is a reaction. In this case the reaction was ‘ouch’. Glad you are ok.

Glad your ok mate ,how you get back on deck soon . Love your work

Im new to your channel. U have alot of interesting things to talk about. Im glad to see you on KZfaq. 🙂

The real question should be: How does your opponent look like now? Jokes aside: I hope you feel well and glad it seemed you had at least luck with your eye amidst the mayhem.

Deja vu? Ive seen you like this before, or did I time-travel? Get well soon, this is one of my fav channels!

Almost lost an eye, almost drowned, panicing: "There's really interesting physics here" - love this channel.

I just discovered this channel, and I am impressed. First video I watched was the trip to the Arctic ice flow, and then this one. First video was one of an intellectual woman, followed by this where she bounces from one social mode to another, switching every heart beat. What diamond mine crafted this lady? She has so much fun doing this, and it makes viewing much more rewarding. Well done.

Oh my god, so glad you're all right. "Rain or shiner" made me laugh a little too hard... 😅

Im having deja vu. I could swear I watched this video a month ago.

I felt so 😢. I hope ur okay and ur healing

Holy smokes lady, physics will get ya everytime. I like the quote I saw on another comment here "we are all a victim of physics" , that is an awesome quote I've never heard and sums up so many of life's pains lol. Very glad you are ok and that your eye is ok. Be more careful lol. You still have that hot young blood but the goal is to quench the fire not snuff it out by being brained by a surfboard, lol. Your channel rocks and truly is one of my favorites, thank you for all the content and knowledge you bring to us, your fans.

Glad you're ok, but I also have to appreciate how you bring in the physics of waves and buoyancy. You prove science is all around us every minute of every day. Please take care of yourself.

I'm having deja-vu. Wasn't this posted two weeks ago? Or am I living in an alternate reality

Omg. I can tell you I reexperienced your pain as you were telling how it happened. So glad you are fine, smiling and we can expect more physics girl episode. By the way, you would look great also as one eye pirate ..

You're badass, I'm glad you're okay. It would be awesome once you get back out there if you did a video on some of the physics that make surfing possible!!

I'm so glad you are OK Dianna and thanks for sharing the dangers of basic surfing that I want to try... I learned from your physics interpretation of your accident.

Hope you heal quick! Interesting physics happened to my face wins the internet for the day

I am glad you are feeling better. I agree about the colors, nice combination.

I really like that thumbnail. Anyways, good spirits and a speedy recovery I wish to you!

OMG! I know that feeling! I once rammed myself in the corner of my eye with a jack screw. Thought I'd gouged my eye out. Covered my eye with my hand and ran panicked to my neighbor's house. My vision was ok, but my eye looked a LOT like yours. I wore big sunglasses for a while.

Ok... if anyone was EVER curious why we watch your content...This explains it all!!! Love ya kiddo, 😘 on the eye

Have always wanted to try surfing, you brought new light to the sport.. wow, that's just kinda scary ... I guess the concussion depression is to make you rest while you heal., slow you down some. Glad youre ok!

" YOU SHOULDNT HAVE BOUGHT IT OVER SEE "

Every surfer gets skegged. Welcome to the club, Dianna!

Couldn't her head trauma factor in to her current condition?

wow I think i remember having health insurance 4 years ago. Now i just try not to get sick. There have been a couple times where I was sure I was going to die. I guess this is the world we live in. I hope you make a full recovery and can continue with your work. You are one of the good ones.

So happy you're okay. If you *do* end up with a scar in your eyebrow, you're not alone: I have a scar through my right eyebrow from being hit in the face with the blade side of a *shovel*. LOL!!! It adds character to the face, and provides a fun story to share. lol

Surfs up, dude!

Glad u didn't get seriously hurt keep up the good work and be careful with that board

LOVE your stuff, long time sub; in my youth (I'm 66), I was a E. Coast surfer....mostly Virginia and Carolinas. I got rocked in high-school, wiped out....and I STILL have a scar on my upper thigh...from my surfboard's tri-fins cutting me: 50+ years ago. THREE lacerations across my knee/thigh area. GOOD times! ps: I've had (at least) 14 concussions that I KNOW about. My last was 2 years ago. My first was in 10th. grade.

I’ve got a friend who had to have his front teeth replaced a couple times due to incidents with his surfboard.

I love your attitude!

me during the whole video: *AAAAAHHH!!* May you have a speedy recovery!

Quick recovery🙏

I know the eye feeling.. I got hit in the eye with a plastic ruler at school once. And it sliced the white of my eye. The most painful thing I've ever felt in my life. And I was so scared I was gonna go blind.

3:04....

Glad you're and thankyou for another physics lesson. You should definitely head to Bondi and hand out with the lifeguards (I'm addicted to that show atm) And... could maybe help explain how an isochronous curve works on a horizontal plain? (I'm a mountain bike trail builder and I'd love to understand some of the physics of berms in particular. Thankyou again for continuing to be awesome :D

I have had unexpected accident .( accidents never expected, but part of been alive) lived to tell and supporte people who has similar experiences. You will be able to overcome this. Learn from it. Hopefully you are okay.

If this had happened now I'd have thought you got invited to present an Oscar.

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I was all over the place after experiencing a concussion from a sudden direction change on a waltzer ride that whipped my head around and cracked my neck. Short term memory was a mess, mood was all over the place. Good luck with your recovery!

You made the Shiner pun and I was instantly hitting the subscribe button.

Isn't this the second time you bruised your eye on your surfboard?

I’m so glad you’re ok. Alright, so this was not ANOTHER one, this and the JWST one are just out of order. Phew! I’m a big worrier by nature, so stop it! Now I’m what if-ing. Grrrrr!! You’re the best, Diana! Please stay safe. Hope you’re all healed up, either soon or already. ❤️

I had a wipe out once where I feel off smacked my face on a sand bar as my board dragged me. My foot was still connect to the leash. I have a scar over my eye from that experience myself. Welcome to the club. Now you too will be able regale people with your story every time someone new asks what happened when the see it. I'm glad you are OK.

WOW 😳😳😳. Hope you feel better soon but that's cool that you went. I always wanted to go surfing I haven't done it yet. I snow skied, water sky, ice skated, roller skated, snowboard, horseback, riding motorcycle, walk on stilts, skydive I have never went surfing want to do it really bad. I practice on the board that sits on a drum and you go back and forth before it hits the knobs on the bottom to learn how to surf before you go surfing. There's two different sides of the board had no problem doing that so I'm definitely going to go surfing. You have great videos love the science part.

can't say what the real story was but I'm betting dollars to donuts it's got nothing to do with what she's attempting to push

And then she got COVID.

Glad you're ok and KEEP GOING OUT! It happens and it'll happen again. One time we hit Newport when a storm came in (only real time it gets good surf there) and I had a similar incident except when the wave broke out from under me, I did a header right onto the now missing foam and hit straight sand. I hit flat across my forehead and nose and was lucky enough not to break my neck like they do up at the Wedge. Anyway, broke my nose on both my face and my board. I went back to where the rest of our group was with blood all down the front of my wet suit. They were all "what happened!?" so I messed with them and said "I don't know...there were these guys and they said 'locals only!' and ran off." My friends were ready to fight but I started laughing. We had just seen POINT BREAK a few months before. Dated myself there, lol. Physics lesson...stormy weather no bueno for surfing when you're not used to it.

I had the same thing happen to me when I was first learning to surf. You posted this on my birthday!

Dianna, tell the truth. You need a different boyfriend.