Non-burn injuries

i bust my lips open twice while juggling... once i got hit by a bouncer ball, and then i was passing staffs with a friend and i got hit in the face

smacked myself in the side of the nose, made a deeep gash. now have a very chunky scar

Massive black eye taking me through from the Wednesday night of this year's Glasto and which still hadn't faded properly by Falmouth 4.

benzene poisoning was by far the worst. I thought I was going to die for 2 days.

during a blindfolded staff performance, i jumped over my staff... a move i've done hundreds of times, but this time i found a gopher hole. tore my ACL, meniscus, and bursa in my left knee. this is the first year since the injury that i have gone all season without my brace. i still haven't had the surgery.

well of course i've had a couple of scratches from wrapping with chains that aren't all to nice.
also, the classic hitting the goods with poi ><.
gotten a couple of bumps through practicing reverse btb bt weave with hard pois.
and lots of other stuff.
but hey, its worth it;)

Couple of years back I was soinning a glowstaff in a nightclub really early one morning, was spinning it behind my back and caught my leg on the inside right between the claf muscle and the bone..... it hurt but I was ok, or so thought, by the time I got home, I had to cut my trousers off..... I fell asleep for an hour, and when I woke up, I couldn't stand up...... I went to the hospital, and they couldn't tell me what I'd done. It was about a week and a half before I could walk again, and I was limping for a very long time after.

My worst would be when I very nearly sliced the end of my finger off whilst setting up for a spin with Wire wool. I didn't notice at the time, but when I stopped spinning, there was blood running half way up my arm!

As well as my gums i was doing the aerotech Beach Flingo thing and ended up doing Contact UCOF at the same time, but it was more of a nose burst than roll and it forced the 8mm tunnel up my nose slicing the insides, a swelled up nose was a great thing to go home from falmouth with!

during an escape, i lost feeling in my right hand. now, whenever i rub up the side of my right wrist, my thumb has tingles run up it.

also, a mate almost choked / drowned while attempting an underwater straightjacket / chain escape. it was his first try and i was next to him ready to save him the whole time, so he was fine.

cheers, pete

i've smacked myslef in the head a fair few times spinning a single staff, and i always seem to scratch where my biceps are when i do doubles

I've just started learning, but my poi already seem unnaturally attracted to my nuts. v_v

my poi seems to enjoy to constantly beat my nuts in to a very painful submission. i was practicicing a butterfly and wham... send me to the foor with a very sick nauseated feeling... eyes constantly watering... i felt like the wind were just knocked out of me... after that i didnt touch the poi for about a week i was pissed with them... i have since gone back and now its time for me to get a staff so i can practice with that and my poi. hopefully the staff will become less infatuated with my scrotum, than my poi.

staff gets infatuatuated with your head and eyes instead

meh loosing an eye or bopping your head is DEFFINATELY less painful than bopping your nuts with poi. id rather hit my head than my nuts any day.

Pain in the happy place. LOL.

not sure if theres an name for the move, but I'm trying to learn it. get a good steady butterfly going then lean back and bring it with you to a horizontal plane...anyway, I've started wearing a cup while trying to learn this one...first ouch with it both poi made a sandwich out of my jewels. couldn't walk right for the better part of 3 days.

i strained my wrist (mywristgotsawd) the other day about an hour and a half into a rather hectic poi practice session...

I had the biggest eggie on my forhead for about a week from a misjudged ropedart wrap!!

other than that i don't normally get much in the way of injuries!

There are of course the occasional rawblistered finger from spinning with too much weight for too long!

I have callouses on my thumbs from last night, not so much an injury but they are sore! - trying to light wicks up with a lighter in the brisk, windy scottish air! Could not feel my fingers til i got home and warmed up. Damn it was cold! it snowed again this morning - where the hell is spring? lol