Non-burn injuries

i've done it before and it hurt like s##t, although yesterday i hit myself in the eye and i mean the eye not round about there, i was doing some fast figure of eights with a staff longer than mine one end hit the ground the other blinded me for about fifteen minuites

spinning and testicles are not happy bed fellows

Managed to avoid my own balls, but I was showing someone how to do figure 8s when he said "This is really easy!" to which I replied "Careful you don't..."

Too late.

The comedic timing couldn't have been better if you'd scripted it. For some bizarre reason, he didn't show much interest after that...

teeth thru my lip on occasion. also the large metal part of a coil wrap poi head in the back of the head, that REALLY hurt. hit my hand the other day too, so hard i couldnt hold the poi for a good hour or so.

ps: Druss rocks!

many times i have had the blisters on the forefingers from the spinning of the poi.
fingers are back up to full power now though with leatheryness of skin designed to combat the blister problem

other minor injuries include scraping and bruising my eyebrow with an aerotech ball in a net and another time, hitting my knee *really* hard and limping for two days afterwards

most painful for me are bruised hands/knuckles from juggling clubs (serious ouch ) and cut fingers from juggling rings.


cole. x

Best non burn injury I have recieved was practicing staff. I did a very high horizontal throw which I failed to catch but it managed to catch me at speed in the left temple which knocked me out for a good 30 seconds DOH!

Worse than that it was in a public park so of course I came round to a mass of peeps standing over me lol.

Note to self: wear a crash helmet when practicing very high horizontal throws.

Non-burn? Yeah, got a few of those.

I thought it hurt to catch a spinning staff on the back of the head or near the temple, but the worst is... the _earlobe_!!! Was doing a reverse figure eight off a bad transfer and wound up holding onto my staff for dear life so I didn't topple over. Yay practice.

Oh, and of course, using my steel staff I was being particularly stubborn and took several heavy blows to my left leg. Three welts made my entire leg turn purple for about three weeks...

The nuts, the nuts, has to be the nuts!!!

right, I'm bumping this thread!!!!

My btb weave (3bt) is coming on well, of course I have the odd knocks. Anyway I decided to try it with my pink tailed comets day before yesterday.
Smacked myself right in the eye, didn't I! I never thought tennis balls could inflict so much owies! I mean it smacked my eye - not the optical orbit, the actual eyeball and it made this weird popping sound. luckily it didn't bruise but I have some burst vessels in the corner and it's still tender.

Needless to say, I won't be trying that again soon, unless I can get hold of them goggles we used to wear in science class.

I've got a nice halfmoon scar right at my hairline from practicing ttn over my head with homemade tubecores..

poi in the balls

Most of my injuries seem to occur when twirling the wrong object, eg. trying to use nunchaku like a staff, or trying to use poi like nunchaku, or trying to use a hefty chain instead of just leaving it where I saw it.

I've come close to removing my eyes / ears / testicles more times than I can remember. I really should learn to stop experimenting.

The tendons on my fingers are really starting to hurt due to my poi are getting a bit heavy due to me keep adding props to them.
A face wrap with my fires wearnt good. arm wraps with my chains left my arm black with a bruise.
staff throw in the day, not seeing my staff and it wacking me in the face.......
thats about it me thinks

It has to be when poi tangle directly in front of you and then make that smooth, perfect arc straight into the happy place, I did that to myself last night and nearly ended up on my knees! (I just starting out but that is one lesson I'm gonna learn fast!)

Then again there was the time many years ago when the difference in chain and handle length between my friends nunchukas and my own allowed me to smack myself soundly in the back of the head with his set.....

I did some fair damage with early club swinging... didn't quite get the go-to-full-extension-before-going backwards- thing till I'd totally strained my wrist... owie... took ages to heal.....

Poi in the [censored] while trying to get the buttefly done with my tail poi, it really really hurt I was hunched over for 10 minutes and was very nearly sick.

Oh and I sometimes catch my hair do! :O to me that is like an injury very seriouse!! lol

Have knocked a front tooth out of place with a juggling club. Its now more crookeder than the rest.

the grip on my staff enjoys catching on my hair and ripping it out...its making learning the steve very painful!

Millhouse (HoP name house_of_mill) dug a chunk out of his gum with his labret piercing while doing an over the head one handed butterfly that went wrong.

theres a picture in his gallery of it

http://www.homeofpoi.com/gallery/showpho...=500&page=2

i really really hurt my eye on sunday doing a btb weave with zeeboos poi. couldn't open my eye for about half an hour and it wouldn't stp watering. All ok now and no phyiscal sign of injury so all's cool.