Non-burn injuries

Hello boys and girls.

As i'm starting to do more performances with fire I've noticed that I have been getting one or two non-burn injuries.

As in, injuries that aren't burns. Easy innit?
Injuries from last weekend are:

1>> A BIG Fat Bruise (BFB) on the outside of the first joint (from the nail) of my left index finger. After the last night of Run to the Sun (and 8 fire shows + lots of uv spinnage) it was protruding over 1cm from the side of my finger. It is officially known as the

Buzzsaw Blister

2>> A rather nasty looking rash across my chest, which I can only attribute to the (at times) large amount of paraffin that i got on my naked skin during the shows. Buzzsawing too early in a set will do this, as will spinning off a staff without checking the wind sufficiently. (I have had this before: Once fuel leaked into my bag, through my bag, through my trousers and I got a wierd rash then as well.) This one is the

Fuel Rash

Has anyone experienced any of these fire spinnery related maladies? And are there more that I have yet to look forward to?

Much love and hugs

The skin at the tips of my fingers has become all dry and cracked and horrible. I believe this is due to repeated contact with parrafin-soaked items followed up by buzzsawing with socks.

Friction fingers

I couldn't stand or walk for several months after breaking my leg whilst twirling.
i got time of work tho

What did you do to break your leg though...?

i was kinda drunk once when i was new new new to staff and i picked up my stick and on the first revolution of a backward figure 8 i hit myself in the eye. had a big black shiner for about a week

non burn injuries - read any of the beamer threads... plenty of stories in there...

there would be more mention of beamers, but alas knocks to the head cause amnesia...

i only ever seem to hit myself in the eye. the last one was the end of my staff hit that bone under my eye. cut, burn, and black eye all at once. the worst part was, it got infected.

The most bizzare non burn injury to date was from a tennis ball of all things.

I was practicing with my rope dart with my practice wicks on when I caught a bad spin. The tennis ball caught me at this amazing spot between my ankle bone and heel.

Now, I've trained in martial arts for a long time and I've learned a lot of crazy and F*ed up pressure points, but they never *ever* told me about this one.

It felt like my shoe filled up with ice water and was overflowing out the top.
My foot was completely cold, numb, and pretty much completely useless for about two hours.

I had no clue you could do that with a tennis ball.

I guess you learn something new everyday.

Yesterday a juggling club crashed down on my thumb, broke my nail good and proper, then swelled up, and now I've got a bruise and it hurts

And I've pulled various muscles from not warming up before spinning fire in very cold conditions...really hurt my back once when bending back to do a buzzsaw- this move seems to be the one causing most problems doesn't it?!

Only real thing ive done apart from muscle pulling / bruising from staffs wa putting my back right out.

Leanring the matrix i was, b*stard move that it is, requires lots of back bending, thing with me is ive had a spinal fusion and the bottom 7 vertibre are locked together with scrrews and metal bits

But i dont like shirking off a challange, so after about a year of stretching i can now (pretty much constistantly) do it

IMO most non burn related injuries are from not warming up properly

Apart from the few Mags mentioned above

....broken finger nails from staffing :'(
oh and a lil rsi form too mant fishtails

the side of my nose swelled up the other night when i smacked my glasses into my face with my very deceiving fluffy poi...they look all fluffy and sweet but cause sooooo much pain! Couldn't open my eye properly till the swelling went down!

I got a black eye due to an accident with a buzzsaw butterfly and plenty of shots to the balls when I first started poi

I aslo got a nice bonk on the head when I tried staff for the first time -_-

my left breast hurt the whole time i was trying to learn weave...
now i'm on backwards three beat and it hurts a hell of a lot more

the nastiest one I had was with my staff...

I was doing a palm spin, and then I threw it into the air... the wind caught it and brought the wick onto the crown of my head.... not so bad, but the staff had rotated until the screws holding the damn wick in place was hitting me... so i got a nice big dent and a cut in my head... it bled for ages.... stopped hurting after a while, so i got back up and tried it again... success! wooo!


this was a while ago though.. I haven't really injured myself at all....

I got nutted in the balls by an over-eager retriever.

Not too bad though.

Um when i first learnt poi i had tonnes of bruises and a black eye..

A lot of broken nails from club juggling. And... oh just hurt muscles from learning waist wraps..

Unless you call smacking my glasses half way across the garden a lot non burn injuries? Because for some strange reason, i do that almost daily...

Surely all male staffers when they started had at least one instance of doing a figure-eight fast and severly smacking themselves in the crown jewels with the leading end? <-- (There needs to be a better graemlin for this..)

Surely?

Or maybe it was just me.

nope.... I didnt... i was careful bout it.... cos I like my nuts the way they are thank you very much... un-pulverised