An excerpt from The Champ's latest diary entry:

Here I am, Japan on New Years Day, I'm in Niseko on a snowboarding trip and the place is amazing. The snow is great but I didn't finish the year the way I thought I would. I fell and fractured my wrist, at first I didn'think it was that bad so I just strapped it and kept riding all day."
"I got home, took off my gloves and it didn't look so great. I decided to go to hospital just to make sure I hadn't done something bad. I saw the doc and he gave me the bad news that I had fractured my Scaphoid. It's not a really bad break but I have a cast ...
- Mick.
For more info on the wrist and a few photos from Japan go to my site mickfanning.com (go straight to the journal section).