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Login/Join to Participatejourneyman
78 posts
Location: United Kingdom
while merryly spining on the beach or in my garden, or where ever, im am often suddenly doubled up, rithing around on the floor clutching my balls.
this cant go on.
i am fairly worried about my fertilty now.
i know as i get beter it will happen less often, but i think im gonna get one oftheose cricketers box things to save my baby making machinery.
does anyone else experience this problem, and has anyone else solved it?
YEY! i got the poi down form under the motorway bridge!
Satisfying HOPs Lust For Fire
308 posts
Location: Salem, Oregon, USA
Never experienced that, of course I don't have the same "equipment" you do. However, I would like to know how to keep from bashing my nose & boobs while learning new moves, or at least figure out how to protect myself but unless I wear a hockey mask & bubble wrap I think I'm out of luck. Although not as painful as your condition, it still hurts like hell & nobody likes to look at a girl with a bloody nose & bruised boobs.
PS Yes I have read the thread on bashing boobies.
Never settle for normal.
Average thinking brings average results.
Fool
2,020 posts
Location: Cornwall, UK
Er...no. But i've thought about it - usually when on all fours and gasping. The worst thing about poi is when they tangle from the flutterby they swing down and then are coming up into the underside of yer bits. Killer.
A cricket box'd do the job. But i've been kinda hoping that eventually i'd get good enough that it doesn't happen anymore. And to be fair, it hasn't happened yet this month. But it's only a matter of time.
"I believe the cost of life is Death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift. We paid the cover charge of life, we were born."
Bill Hicks, February 1988
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6,086 posts
Location: Cornwall, United Kingdom
I've considered it too! again, usually just after a particularly painful thwack! The only reason I don't wear a cricket box, is that I find them really uncomfortable, otherwise I probably would (especially when trying to nail a new move)
My state of mind is not yours to define!
There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
Satisfying HOPs Lust For Fire
308 posts
Location: Salem, Oregon, USA
Is a cricket box your term for a sports cup? Just curious.
Never settle for normal.
Average thinking brings average results.
Fool
2,020 posts
Location: Cornwall, UK
Without telling you more than you need to know about me (for Gods sake, just read [Old link] if you want the gory stuff) i have found that different undies make a difference. Trunk style boxers keep everything neatly packed together and usually the poi hit you inna meat rather than inna veg. (Is that acceptable for a family website?
)So there ya go.
"I believe the cost of life is Death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift. We paid the cover charge of life, we were born."
Bill Hicks, February 1988
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6,086 posts
Location: Cornwall, United Kingdom
Yes, for all you non english people, read sports cup for cricket box!
My state of mind is not yours to define!
There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
(...trusty steed of the rodeo midget...)
403 posts
Location: the state of flux, Ireland
Probably not, but on side note which is worse? the full on thump (ooff)or the nasty flick? (yowww)
master of disaster
3,354 posts
Location: New York, USA
i wish i did when i was trying to learn buzzsaw isolations...though surprisingly when learning btb weave, my legs close fast enough...
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342 posts
Location: Vermont, USA
i just got REALLY REALLY good at dodging REALLY quick
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456 posts
Location: Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
I wear one. Every time. But I'm a newbie too.
After a couple of hits, for a while there I just did everything reversed. There are still some moves I can only do that way. (You see, reversed you only hit yourself in the head -- which is a) less fragile and b) less valuable (in my case anyway, me bein' a stoopid git 'n all).
"If you didn't like something the first time, the cud won't be any good either." --Elsie the Cow, Ruminations
A perth girl gone walkabout...
396 posts
Location: Back home in Perth WA, Australia
Thats actually the reason a lot of guys i know state for not wanting to learn poi - They start learning, whack themselves a few times simultaneoulsy with both poi while doing butterfly which floors them, and then they decide never again and pick up staff instead
I smile because i have no idea whats going on!!
still can't believe it's not butter
6,978 posts
Location: Melbourne, Australia
staffers are virile.
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old hand
929 posts
Location: Oregon, USA
It's dedication to the art when you can take a shot to the nuts and decide its all part of the game
Learn to dodge would be the best method... You have to read them and know when things are about to go bad *before* they go bad so you can drop them and scream like a schoolgirl over your close call...
Or wear fairly loose baggy pants in the hopes of stopping them before they connect
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633 posts
Location: USA, wishing I was in SA
two words ... game on ! suck it up wuss! if you didnt learn the very first time that you whacked yourself , then you didnt hit yourself hard enough! thats all it took me ... 15minutes of rolling around on the ground screaming like the little girl who just won the prize on the radio, and that was it ! from there on i learnt very quickly and i have never hit myself since then!
like lurch, you learn to understand the poi !
* though i do like to scream like a little school girl sometimes, just for the fun of it ! ~ homemade opens up and a little too much comes out ..... ~ *
i like breaking the Law , of Gravity !
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
I never did, but I always advise new male spinners to. I even warn them: "It's not that you 'MIGHT' smack yourself in the nads, you WILL at the very least once smack yourself in the nads and it will hurt like only getting smacked in the nuts with two speeding tennis balls can."
They never listen, of course, and everyone (well everyone who owns testicles, anyway) ends up curled in a ball on the ground moaning with their hands over their crotch at some point.
Everyone! Without exception!
And then they want me to feel sorry for them!
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456 posts
Location: Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
I have to say that I consider twirling burning things around my head quite macho enough for me. This despite the fact that some very petite, pretty, extremely feminine women do it too.
Why not protect yourself to the extent possible? Sheesh. That's the ONLY place it really hurts to get hit (unless you nail a nose or eye, I guess), so it's not like you have to wear a suit of armor. If I hadn't taken to wearing a cup, I would never have learned the forward butterfly. Or much else forward.
"If you didn't like something the first time, the cud won't be any good either." --Elsie the Cow, Ruminations
HoP is teh suxor.
425 posts
Location: Tampa, Florida, USA
Im not scared.
Once in a while you get shown the light
in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
456 posts
Location: Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
I believe you, grasshoppah, but I don't see the relevance. "Being scared" =/= "observing reasonable cautions." Else why have someone do safety while spinning fire?
"If you didn't like something the first time, the cud won't be any good either." --Elsie the Cow, Ruminations
1,489 posts
Location: state of confusion
grasshoppah's not scared 'casue he's missing the essential equipment to require a cup...........;)
You can't avoid pain by fencing yourself from it.
Some times you need the help of others more than anything else
But you have to let them close enough to help......
People want to be needed, I found that out too
456 posts
Location: Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Now, now. Let's not be nasty.
"If you didn't like something the first time, the cud won't be any good either." --Elsie the Cow, Ruminations
HoP is teh suxor.
425 posts
Location: Tampa, Florida, USA
Dont be a sissy.
Is that a better way to phrase it?
Im just messing with you.
But FRYED FISH is getting no love from me this evening.
Once in a while you get shown the light
in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
1,489 posts
Location: state of confusion
im sad
You can't avoid pain by fencing yourself from it.
Some times you need the help of others more than anything else
But you have to let them close enough to help......
People want to be needed, I found that out too
456 posts
Location: Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
Well, come to that I've been a sissy my entire life. Not a coward though, as the guys who used to beat me up in HS found out...
But OK. I didn't realize you were being silly; tone of voice doesn't really come across, you know?
Hmm, you and FRYED FISH both live in Tampa FL...would he or she ordinarily get love from you, of an evening?
Just messing with you! :-)
"If you didn't like something the first time, the cud won't be any good either." --Elsie the Cow, Ruminations
456 posts
Location: Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
[pats Fryed Fish on the head]
[yes, the head]
"If you didn't like something the first time, the cud won't be any good either." --Elsie the Cow, Ruminations
1,489 posts
Location: state of confusion
grass is my (other name for female dog) hehehe
You can't avoid pain by fencing yourself from it.
Some times you need the help of others more than anything else
But you have to let them close enough to help......
People want to be needed, I found that out too
HoP is teh suxor.
425 posts
Location: Tampa, Florida, USA
FRYED FISH and i do indeed know each other. He is an assclown.
Im sorry if i offended you. I dont like getting hit in the cahoots either, but im not scared. It all goes with the territory. If you are going to spin poi, you are going to hit yourself and if you are playing with fire, you will get burned.
Once in a while you get shown the light
in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
1,489 posts
Location: state of confusion
im actually asshoppah's imaginary friend, im just a voice in his head
You can't avoid pain by fencing yourself from it.
Some times you need the help of others more than anything else
But you have to let them close enough to help......
People want to be needed, I found that out too
456 posts
Location: Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
BTW Fryed Fish, you should read a story by Ambrose Bierce called "Oil of Dog." It will delight you and creep you out simultaneously.
"If you didn't like something the first time, the cud won't be any good either." --Elsie the Cow, Ruminations
1,489 posts
Location: state of confusion
ok were could i find it?
You can't avoid pain by fencing yourself from it.
Some times you need the help of others more than anything else
But you have to let them close enough to help......
People want to be needed, I found that out too
456 posts
Location: Hoboken, New Jersey, USA
grasshoppah, you did NOT offend me. I thought you were serious and you were just messing. I got burned this very week, as I popped my fire cherry. Next time I will wear long sleeves, and probably get burned less.
I think we actually disagree about protective clothing, but as far as I'm concerned, it's been perfectly civilized and no offense has been taken (or meant) on my part or yours.
Well, your "assclown" pal Fryed Fish might have offended you, but that's between you & him. :-)
"If you didn't like something the first time, the cud won't be any good either." --Elsie the Cow, Ruminations
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