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water based
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Location: melbourne, Australia
Posted:
hi all,
i was spinning on sunday, doing a butterfly, a simple move, and i was thinking, then it struck me... not a thought, but the poi. in the groin. it happened again doing airstalls betwee my legs, with the poi going in opposite directions and yet agian, doing something else i forget now. i was on the ground in pain, three times at one gathering. this sucked. but for anyone watching was hilarious.
my point. does anyone else have any stories that are amazinngly painful to be you, but would be funny for anyone watching.
cheers, pete
hi all,
i was spinning on sunday, doing a butterfly, a simple move, and i was thinking, then it struck me... not a thought, but the poi. in the groin. it happened again doing airstalls betwee my legs, with the poi going in opposite directions and yet agian, doing something else i forget now. i was on the ground in pain, three times at one gathering. this sucked. but for anyone watching was hilarious.
my point. does anyone else have any stories that are amazinngly painful to be you, but would be funny for anyone watching.
cheers, pete
"you know there are no trophys for doing silly things in real life yeah pete?" said ant "you wont get a 'listened to ride of the valkyries all the way to vietnam' trophy"
*proud owner of the very cute fire_spinning_angel, birgit and neon shaolin*
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Snoochie-boochie-noochies!
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Snoochie-boochie-noochies!
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Location: United Kingdom
Posted:
i think every guy who's ever tried to spin poi will back up the butterballs one :wince:
not fun.
i forgot to take my light down before windmillin in my room and ended up showered in tiny glass shards. come to think of it it's funny even to me now so maybe this doesn't qualify...
i think every guy who's ever tried to spin poi will back up the butterballs one :wince:
not fun.
i forgot to take my light down before windmillin in my room and ended up showered in tiny glass shards. come to think of it it's funny even to me now so maybe this doesn't qualify...
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Posted:
I have many stories of such things... most of which do involve my groin...
Jackass is an extrmley good example of "its funny when its someone else"
I have many stories of such things... most of which do involve my groin...
Jackass is an extrmley good example of "its funny when its someone else"
The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."
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Pooh-Bah
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Pooh-Bah
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Location: York University, United Kingdom
Posted:
I have a slightly entertaining story,
Walking down the hill outside my house, I was on my way back from practising my staff moves in the park. Walking down the pavement, doing some spinning (simple stuff, don't want to have it fly into the road and get run over) when there was this thud.
Turns out I had quite neatly clotheslined a cyclist while doing the transition from a fingerspin to a behind the back combo.
Of course I apologised, and we laughed about it (which was quite lucky, as he could easily have been a d*ck who tried to beat me up) but I'm still not entirely sure whose fault it was, mine for spinning on the pavement, or his for not noticing me, despite the 100m of clear road that I was on.
Funny for me, maybe not for the cyclist.
I have a slightly entertaining story,
Walking down the hill outside my house, I was on my way back from practising my staff moves in the park. Walking down the pavement, doing some spinning (simple stuff, don't want to have it fly into the road and get run over) when there was this thud.
Turns out I had quite neatly clotheslined a cyclist while doing the transition from a fingerspin to a behind the back combo.
Of course I apologised, and we laughed about it (which was quite lucky, as he could easily have been a d*ck who tried to beat me up) but I'm still not entirely sure whose fault it was, mine for spinning on the pavement, or his for not noticing me, despite the 100m of clear road that I was on.
Funny for me, maybe not for the cyclist.
After much consideration, I find that the view is worth the asphyxiation.
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Posted:
The first two times I spun poi I nutted myself so I bought a cricketer's frog asap. Now I keep losing it or having it fall down a trouserleg partway through practicing. Once I was semiperforming* with Ilsanya and some other people who as far as I know aren't on the forums and knocked meself beneath as well, not having got the frog yet, and staggered around a little which I'm sure someone had a giggle about. Not Saan or anyone else I was with, curiously enough, sympathy and ignorance came at me from all angles.
*Really I suppose we were just doing it for the fun of it, it was a concert and we were dancing, but there were people watching us.
EDITED_BY: Seb (1116331130)
The first two times I spun poi I nutted myself so I bought a cricketer's frog asap. Now I keep losing it or having it fall down a trouserleg partway through practicing. Once I was semiperforming* with Ilsanya and some other people who as far as I know aren't on the forums and knocked meself beneath as well, not having got the frog yet, and staggered around a little which I'm sure someone had a giggle about. Not Saan or anyone else I was with, curiously enough, sympathy and ignorance came at me from all angles.
*Really I suppose we were just doing it for the fun of it, it was a concert and we were dancing, but there were people watching us.
EDITED_BY: Seb (1116331130)
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Posted:
i took a cricket ball in the groin once, whilst not wearing a cup. I do have a cup as it happens, but because i rarely play anymore it wasn't with me at uni. I turned down the chance to use the one from the kit bag that'd been down hundreds of pairs of trousers over the last 20 years.
I did get the most runs of anyone on our team that day, it was proper psyched up for it!
i took a cricket ball in the groin once, whilst not wearing a cup. I do have a cup as it happens, but because i rarely play anymore it wasn't with me at uni. I turned down the chance to use the one from the kit bag that'd been down hundreds of pairs of trousers over the last 20 years.
I did get the most runs of anyone on our team that day, it was proper psyched up for it!
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A Fire Inside
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Location: portsmouth and sometimes oxford, United Kingdom
A Fire Inside
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Location: portsmouth and sometimes oxford, United Kingdom
Posted:
falling over in public, getting shat on by a bird, and treading in dog shite are all v. funny.....as long as its someone else!
falling over in public, getting shat on by a bird, and treading in dog shite are all v. funny.....as long as its someone else!
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Pooh-Bah
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Posted:
My Beamers arrived today. I'm going out to buy a cricket box.
Seriously.
My Beamers arrived today. I'm going out to buy a cricket box.
Seriously.
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
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Posted:
Smart lad, do remember to wear it though. Remarkably few of your spinning partners will be willing to check you over for damage or apply a cold pack.
Smart lad, do remember to wear it though. Remarkably few of your spinning partners will be willing to check you over for damage or apply a cold pack.
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Posted:
Has anybody else noticed that it tends to be an individual testicle that you allways hit? It is allways the right!
On a funny to anybody else, I pulled up to a set of lights on my bike and as i lent over to put a leg down, realised that my trousers were caught in the chain and performed a slow motion sideways tumble to lay spralled in the middle of a busy junction. mind you, I think I may have found this funnier than anyone else there in a slightly embarresed kinda way
Has anybody else noticed that it tends to be an individual testicle that you allways hit? It is allways the right!
On a funny to anybody else, I pulled up to a set of lights on my bike and as i lent over to put a leg down, realised that my trousers were caught in the chain and performed a slow motion sideways tumble to lay spralled in the middle of a busy junction. mind you, I think I may have found this funnier than anyone else there in a slightly embarresed kinda way
*are those my feet?!*
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Pooh-Bah
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Pooh-Bah
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Posted:
ALWAYS the right! Yeah! I thought it was just me!
*gives you awkward man-hug*
ALWAYS the right! Yeah! I thought it was just me!
*gives you awkward man-hug*
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
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Posted:
POint 2 kicked me in the stomach...i made a funny noise..a really wierd one, halfway between an exhale and an "ow/f**k/no" at the same now.
ALmost sounded lieka dog barking.
Pete may ahve heard it...
sooooo embarrasing
POint 2 kicked me in the stomach...i made a funny noise..a really wierd one, halfway between an exhale and an "ow/f**k/no" at the same now.
ALmost sounded lieka dog barking.
Pete may ahve heard it...
sooooo embarrasing
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water based
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Location: melbourne, Australia
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Posted:
cant say i heard it, sorry.
cant say i heard it, sorry.
"you know there are no trophys for doing silly things in real life yeah pete?" said ant "you wont get a 'listened to ride of the valkyries all the way to vietnam' trophy"
*proud owner of the very cute fire_spinning_angel, birgit and neon shaolin*
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Carpal \'Tunnel
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Location: Austin, Texas, USA
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Posted:
I actually watched a roommate of mine get bitten on the ass by a 2 foot long baby shark. I about fell off my surfboard laughing, but he was none too pleased by that. he got half a dozen stitches out of it.
I actually watched a roommate of mine get bitten on the ass by a 2 foot long baby shark. I about fell off my surfboard laughing, but he was none too pleased by that. he got half a dozen stitches out of it.
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Posted:
This thread is being overrun with testicle talk. can I just say that nearly having your nipple hacked off by contact with the blunt end of a staff is quite painfull too..... especially when you're trying new doubles exchanges and your partner misjudges angle of throw, height, and rotation... we girlies suffer too you know!
This thread is being overrun with testicle talk. can I just say that nearly having your nipple hacked off by contact with the blunt end of a staff is quite painfull too..... especially when you're trying new doubles exchanges and your partner misjudges angle of throw, height, and rotation... we girlies suffer too you know!
veteran
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Posted:
Yeah, there's a reason I've never been too enamoured with buzzsaw moves...
Yeah, there's a reason I've never been too enamoured with buzzsaw moves...
The optimist claims that we are living in the best of all possible worlds.
The pessimist fears this is true.
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Posted:
there's a silver lining to every cloud though eh? I went up a cup size with the swelling
(Only problem was, I was lop sided for a few days)
there's a silver lining to every cloud though eh? I went up a cup size with the swelling
(Only problem was, I was lop sided for a few days)
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Pooh-Bah
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Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
Pooh-Bah
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Posted:
Sorry, that's just a funny image 
Sorry, that's just a funny image What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
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Posted:
Laugh away that's kinda the point of this thread any way isn't it? - to publically humiliate ourselves - hmm maybe I'm in the wrong place.
Come on then 'nearly all gone', what's your most embarrassing incident?
Laugh away that's kinda the point of this thread any way isn't it? - to publically humiliate ourselves - hmm maybe I'm in the wrong place.
Come on then 'nearly all gone', what's your most embarrassing incident?
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Pirate Ninja
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Posted:
i always thought they were just squishy and absorbed all the shock
i always thought they were just squishy and absorbed all the shock
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Penguin of Mass Destruction and Tricky Bugger to the court of Claire the Askew
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Posted:
#Winces# Maybe *that's* why one of my poi spinning friends leans back when doing buzzsaw. I've been trying to learn it doing the same thing just recently and it's possible I don't need to.
You guys too? Not that I really want to look too deeply into the issue, but I wonder why it is
#Winces# Maybe *that's* why one of my poi spinning friends leans back when doing buzzsaw. I've been trying to learn it doing the same thing just recently and it's possible I don't need to.
You guys too? Not that I really want to look too deeply into the issue, but I wonder why it is
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yeah they are squishy aidan but I'm talking nipple here.. you know... well any way it was Colleen's fault and I still haven't forgiven her she was put off by perving at neil or some other random Sorry coll if you read this BUT IT'S TRUE... anyway I ended up prostrate on the floor of the circus school for at least 10 minutes in the foetal position, mind you no one else was really that bothered they're all used to self inflicted ridiculous injuries.. like this one time when a friend of mine Paul was doind a barrell roll on the trapeze and wrapped his willy round the bar now that WAS funny!
yeah they are squishy aidan but I'm talking nipple here.. you know... well any way it was Colleen's fault and I still haven't forgiven her she was put off by perving at neil or some other random
Sorry coll if you read this BUT IT'S TRUE... anyway I ended up prostrate on the floor of the circus school for at least 10 minutes in the foetal position, mind you no one else was really that bothered they're all used to self inflicted ridiculous injuries.. like this one time when a friend of mine Paul was doind a barrell roll on the trapeze and wrapped his willy round the bar now that WAS funny! BRONZE Member
Still wiggling
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Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Still wiggling
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Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)
Posted:
"she was put off by perving at neil"
No way?!!!
The very idea!
"she was put off by perving at neil"
No way?!!!
The very idea!
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Posted:
You know Coll... always on the lookout.
God I have to stop giggling I'm going to get told off by the poor unfortunates trying to work in here.....
You know Coll... always on the lookout.
God I have to stop giggling I'm going to get told off by the poor unfortunates trying to work in here.....
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Pooh-Bah
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Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
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Posted:
I've never had anything that major... the second time I ever span fire I set my hair on fire, I guess that was one.
At the start of the evening I was straight, totally sober.. and then later on I thought I'd done so well, of course I could do it again.
It's not a nice smell, burning hair..
I've never had anything that major... the second time I ever span fire I set my hair on fire, I guess that was one.
At the start of the evening I was straight, totally sober.. and then later on I thought I'd done so well, of course I could do it again.
It's not a nice smell, burning hair..
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
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Posted:
I once set my bum on fire. I'd just got a new double burner and was a little bit over eager... it had been raining that day so the ground was wet. We were out in the back garden practising, I knew I was on fire when I saw their faces but they were all laughing too hard to tell me exactly where I was burning so I ran around in circles untill it went out and left a little circular smoke trail behind me.
What was funnier though was one of the girls tried to run toward me to help but slipped in the mud and ended up on her ar*se.. total comedy.
I've been scared of that staff ever since..
I once set my bum on fire. I'd just got a new double burner and was a little bit over eager... it had been raining that day so the ground was wet. We were out in the back garden practising, I knew I was on fire when I saw their faces but they were all laughing too hard to tell me exactly where I was burning so I ran around in circles untill it went out and left a little circular smoke trail behind me.
What was funnier though was one of the girls tried to run toward me to help but slipped in the mud and ended up on her ar*se.. total comedy.
I've been scared of that staff ever since..
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Pooh-Bah
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Pooh-Bah
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Posted:
beware the eeefil [censored]-staff!
It's not nice when your bum's on fire, is it? I sat down in a fire once, at Glastonbury. Luckily I was.. medicated. But the next day it was painful!
beware the eeefil [censored]-staff!It's not nice when your bum's on fire, is it? I sat down in a fire once, at Glastonbury. Luckily I was.. medicated. But the next day it was painful!
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
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At least you have some memories from Glastonbury, I just remember the trip down.. no pun intended! Hitching from Glasgow to Glastonbury on acid has to be one of the least sensible things I've ever done! It was fun when it started to rain though, we were in one of those huge trucks and the windscreen wipers were massive, I remember being transfixed on them going back and forward- it was quite matrixy- any way - *comes back from her mind wander* -sitting in a bonfire you must have been well out of it darlin! i hope you had some nice person to kiss it better for you -ahem-
At least you have some memories from Glastonbury, I just remember the trip down.. no pun intended! Hitching from Glasgow to Glastonbury on acid has to be one of the least sensible things I've ever done! It was fun when it started to rain though, we were in one of those huge trucks and the windscreen wipers were massive, I remember being transfixed on them going back and forward- it was quite matrixy- any way - *comes back from her mind wander* -sitting in a bonfire you must have been well out of it darlin! i hope you had some nice person to kiss it better for you -ahem-
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Pooh-Bah
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Location: Southampton, United Kingdom
Pooh-Bah
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Posted:
he he yeah, actually I woke up that night speaking in tongues. My girlfriend stayed up all night to make sure I didn't swallow my own tongue
not good!
Your journey sounds... mad, actually. I've never hitched down, may have to this year.. I'm sure I'll come back and post a similar story if I do
Oh well. God, can't wait to be back there in a few months! 
Anyway, that was off-topic a bit.. spinning injuries... I think I've been quite lucky. Either that or I'm a wimp and always get out of the way in time
he he yeah, actually I woke up that night speaking in tongues. My girlfriend stayed up all night to make sure I didn't swallow my own tongue
not good!Your journey sounds... mad, actually. I've never hitched down, may have to this year.. I'm sure I'll come back and post a similar story if I do
Oh well. God, can't wait to be back there in a few months!
Anyway, that was off-topic a bit.. spinning injuries... I think I've been quite lucky. Either that or I'm a wimp and always get out of the way in time
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
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Posted:
Or your just not hardcore enough to have tried anything potentially lethal.. not that I would ever advocate doing a move just because it makes you look hard. It doesn't work that way for me, my face just controts into the 'b*llocks I'm now officially bricking myself expression and that's never good when you're trying to look hard. I just stick to the 'oooo purdy' type moves.
I don't think these injuries have to be fire related, I thought anything counted as long as it was humourous at your expense. if not I think we should diversify, lead the way NAG
Or your just not hardcore enough to have tried anything potentially lethal.. not that I would ever advocate doing a move just because it makes you look hard. It doesn't work that way for me, my face just controts into the 'b*llocks I'm now officially bricking myself expression and that's never good when you're trying to look hard. I just stick to the 'oooo purdy' type moves.
I don't think these injuries have to be fire related, I thought anything counted as long as it was humourous at your expense. if not I think we should diversify, lead the way NAG
manic over a fence
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Location: Tas, Aus
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Posted:
yeah i have hit myself if the boob too. spin-spin-spin-clonk-oh-f**k-jaysus-that-hurts kinda thing. direct tit hit, right whan it was tender too
*cringes at the memory*
yeah i have hit myself if the boob too. spin-spin-spin-clonk-oh-f**k-jaysus-that-hurts kinda thing. direct tit hit, right whan it was tender too
*cringes at the memory*
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