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Harry Jones knew it was time to get his shoulder fixed when it popped out while he was helping his brother put up some blinds.

“I was holding something for him and my shoulder slipped out,” recalled the Canadian rugby sevens veteran, who had been bothered by the injury since 2015. “It was just my arm getting in those awkward positions, then it would get fairly weak and slip out.

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“When things like that are starting to happen, it’s fairly obvious I needed to have something done about it.”

The 29-year-old from West Vancouver, whose shoulder woes included a torn labrum, had surgery in late August in the wake of the Rugby World Cup Sevens. Essentially they cut off a piece of bone and screwed it into his shoulder socket to block the shoulder from being able to slip out.

The elegant Jones returned to action last weekend at the USA Sevens in Las Vegas and will be front and centre this weekend on home turf as the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series comes to Vancouver’s BC Place Stadium.