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Location: Toronto
HI!
Just thought i'd drop a super quick note to say I have saved myself from a million bruises by using shin pads while learning behind the back stuff, my current obsession. I just take the shin pads, mine are from kick boxing and turn them around so they're covering the backs of my shins and voila no more whacking!
Just thought i'd share.
Happy spinning
Life is GRAND and i am gratefulNamaste'Ren
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,009 posts
Location: Bristol, UK
That's cheating!
11 posts
Location: usa
ummm.....err what did they use to say..oh yea NO pain NO gain.
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19 posts
Location: london uk
My boyfriend always sticks a book down his pants when he plays around with my poi ....
old hand
1,031 posts
Location: Bath, England
lol - a while ago I was thinking about getting a cricket box but since about 6 months ago I have not managed to hit myself there touch wood I wont again for a long time!!
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Location: 43°41'N 79°38'W
Truly learning how to do BTB includes discovering a shamanistic out-of-body state where no amount worldly pain caused by shin-bashing can disturb your transcended reality. These shinpads are keeping you from true enlightenment and the nivrana that lies beyond!
15 posts
Location: Toronto
HAHHAHA you all make me laugh! I'll get enlightened later but for now on with the BTB weave *shin pads in place*
Life is GRAND and i am gratefulNamaste'Ren
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
For the guys out there, a cup (the hard thing that you put in a jock-strap to protect the family jewels) is essential if you are a beginner. Your boys will thank you for it.
Because remember, if the boys aren't happy, nobody's happy!
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
445 posts
Location: nottingham
hey i am the proud owner of a cricket box... i brought one that is i little small so it kind of hurts even more when you wear it...
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19 posts
Location: london uk
Strange.....I have never hit myself in the area where my family jewels would be..if I were a bloke . Nuts must have some sort of poi pulling magnetic force
884 posts
Location: 43°41'N 79°38'W
Indeed...'tis the fifth fundamental force...the strong nutlear force.
old hand
1,031 posts
Location: Bath, England
Definately something going on here.
it seems like the easiest mistake in the world to get both chains tangled and end up hitting yourself, with both poi in 'the family jewels', when you are starting
Liquid Cow
2,629 posts
Location: High Wycombe, England
Especially when you're learning the butterfly - I only had to be hit once before I learnt that a couple of pairs of socks to stuff down your trousers is an invaluable addition to the standard spinning equipment.
But there's no sense crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
TBM, just wanted to point out how nicely your sigline fits with your last post.
Lucky rocketship underpants will not help in that case, indeed!
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
63 posts
Location: Ontario
lol, i pity you guys, but on another note how many of you wack yourselves in the head regularily, i almost broke my friggin nose once!
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Carpal \'Tunnel
3,750 posts
Location: Europe,Scotland,Both
I used the top off an egg box and ended up with ...
an egg box cup! (or is that an egg cup box?)
N
This is a post by tom, all spelling is deleberate
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HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
We call them "egg cartons" on this side of the pond.
"egg carton cup." I like the ring of that.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
enthusiast
249 posts
Location: Canada, Ontario, Toronto
I really coulda used protective goggles a few days ago *shrugs*......but naaaaaaaaaahhhh the bump looks kewl!
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158 posts
Location: Oxford, U.K.
ive never hit myself in "that area" i stand with my legs together so i seem to hit my shims mre often.
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466 posts
Location: Ft worth Texas
I dont usually hit myself "there"my prob is the face,I rarely leave a party without bruises and partially blackened eye's (no i dont do hallucinogens when i spin)I just get really into it and push what I can do.
There are no obstacles only challenges.
Very funny scotty now beam down my pants.
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Location: Sheffield/Leeds
It's good to have a few bruises... show's that you're a true enthusiast in this game!
Corporate Circus Arts Entertainer
3,989 posts
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
*bump*
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3,149 posts
Location: London
ooh, that sounded nasty Charles. Did it hurt?
i noticed while watching your staff video that you employ a cunning bowler shaped crash helmet. Is that decision anything to do with your behind the back catches?
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
Corporate Circus Arts Entertainer
3,989 posts
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Nope, nothing to do with them at all...Dom showed me a neat trick where you aren't reallyu catching it behind your back but it looks like you are...
Absolutely no danger of getting sideswiped up the endskull
Does my hat look like a bowler? Wow...I guess beacuse I know it is knitted out of cotten I never really looked at the shape too much...
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Location: London
Not a bowler? Must be Jon implanting me with false memories again.
Dom doing stick? i've heard that happens sometimes, but in the northern hemisphere i only see him doing poi. Possibly something to do with the coriolis effect?
uh oh, i appear to have fallen off the topic. Ah well, it was an old and wobbly one anyway.
"Switching between different kinds of chuu chuu sometimes gives this "urgh wtf?" effect because it's giving people the phi phenomenon."
940 posts
I feel bad for you guys, but argh, I couldn't stop whacking my right breast while first trying to get the clockwise windmill. That hurts, too!
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Magical Sock Dancer
255 posts
Location: Newfoundland, Canada
I never had a problem with them hitting that. But when I first started my little glow sticks would almost stop when they hit my pants. Probably a whoale diffrent story with my electroglo's, and worse for someone with beamers.
Pooh-Bah
2,109 posts
Location: Philadelphia, PA - USA
Luckily I dont think Ive ever hit myself there with my beamers...Though, my elbows have taken quite a beating. All my other poi have found their way to my crotch though.
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58 posts
Location: Canada
Haha, you people really seem to like pain some. But shouldn't people just wear a cup if they are so worried about it? I mean, they aren't that expensive, and if you go to a sports store, they are right there on the wall.
Just thought I'd give my opinion. And by the way, the shin pad thing is a good idea! I have been hitting the backs of my legs so much tryin to do the btb weave.
Noir_DDELUX
(...trusty steed of the rodeo midget...)
403 posts
Location: the state of flux, Ireland
this sort off looks like the face I made on saturday wile practicing a one handed over the head buterfly. Got the timing all wrong, they tangled, and ROCKETED up into my nads.
Bad enough that I couldn't feel the pain for about ten seconds, then thought I was going to puke.
I'm getting a box.
A few more hits like that and they wont be good for nut-thing.
HA-HA getit?!? nothing/nut-thing!!!
fine , dont laugh , I'm going to bed
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,252 posts
Location: sheffield, United Kingdom
For protection with beamers you can cover them with a layer of bubble wrap held on by rubber bands.
It helps with impacts and doesn't affect the way they look.
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