Weird Ways You Have Injured Yourself Playing Footbag

London · Post by **London** » 10 Sep 2006 15:24

Hey I got the idea for this thred because of something i did yesterday.
Please feel Free to post your own stories

I was praticing in the front yard yesterday manily working on my double downs on both sides when i decided to do a pixi-double down and when i planted my foot to finish the trick i landed directly ontop of a bounci-ball i fell onmy ass but not befor hearing a big crack in my foot....
Luckly i dident really hertmy foot andidident break anything however i managed to severly sprain the area between my little toe and the toe next to it i wont bee off game for more then a few days but its a total inconvience... OUCH...

ShredOnLawn · Post by **ShredOnLawn** » 10 Sep 2006 21:23

I almost tore my pinky off many times in my shorts pocket as I'm swinging my arm for momentum. But it's a pinky who cares.

jon · Post by **jon** » 11 Sep 2006 07:40

I cut my arm with a loose eyelet while doing a leggy atomic set.

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 11 Sep 2006 09:47

jon wrote:I cut my arm with a loose eyelet while doing a leggy atomic set.

yeah, those loose eyelets are murder. at one point when i had one my inner calf on the other leg was a mess of cuts and scratches.

i've hit my head on a low ceiling playing before. and of course all the usual ways.

London · Post by **London** » 11 Sep 2006 13:51

Ouch i have never hadf anytrouble with lose eyelids though most of my friends have. saddly i have kicked myslf in the shins a hole lot of times.

Spontaneous Spaz · Post by **Spontaneous Spaz** » 11 Sep 2006 14:59

i stubbed and smashed my thumb nail due to pendulums and doing a rainbow (soccer)

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 11 Sep 2006 16:41

I don't know what I was trying, but I set with my right toe, and as I went to raise my left foot, I stood on it with my right foot. So instead of my left foot coming up when I bent my knee, my body went straight down and then I collapsed, right in front of my bro. didn't injure myself but it hurt a little, and damn if it wasn't funny.

sniper4life · Post by **sniper4life** » 11 Sep 2006 17:33

A while back I was showing a mirage to someone inside and I messed up the set but I didnt bail on it and ended up kicking a table. I tried to do a downtime illusion mid string when I had never hit one before. My leg got tangled in my other one and landed straight on the outside of my foot.

London · Post by **London** » 11 Sep 2006 17:41

I remember i was travling through europe this summer and i was at an autogrill (sirvice stop) and i was waiting in line for a sandwich and i decied to goof around and was doing ATW's both dirrections when infron of everyone i bashed my knee on the counter lets say my knee wasent brused but my ego was

gangsta · Post by **gangsta** » 11 Sep 2006 18:44

LOL.

One time I was drilling Spinning clippers... While spinning, I lost my balance, and fell on my ass, next to an 'armoir' (big cabinet thing). Well, the door opened when I fell, and when I stood up, I hit my head hard on the door! (I was up within a split second of falling) I sure was suprised!

I've also landed sideways on both my ankles, on 2 seperate occasions, whilst learning blur. Both times, when my ankle rolled, they acted like springs, and bounced me quite a distance! Luckily, no injuries. (good ol' strong, flexible ankles

)

Wasabi · Post by **Wasabi** » 11 Sep 2006 19:00

I slapped my inner thigh/groin a bunch of times from schooling paradons.

jon · Post by **jon** » 11 Sep 2006 19:05

Wasabi wrote:I slapped my inner thigh/groin a bunch of times from schooling paradons.

Thats not a weird way to injury yourself in footbag

I used to do that alllll the time. Paradon right to the nutz

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 12 Sep 2006 09:34

oh man, i just remembered the worst. i was doing some real high flying clipper kicks and i managed to land on another guys foot (yeah, ok, i was trying to intimidate him by doing them all up in his face) and you know how it is when you land on someone else's shoe most of the time...you very quickly roll your ankle straight down to the ground. its like the worst way to roll your ankle ever. i couldnt kick for almost a month.

Spontaneous Spaz · Post by **Spontaneous Spaz** » 12 Sep 2006 11:24

i hit myself in the groin once doing an illusion... ow

professor · Post by **professor** » 12 Sep 2006 17:22

Let's just say don't ever play footbag near a ceiling fan...I think you get the idea.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 12 Sep 2006 17:54

lol pete. so pwned

Slapping yourself in the groin/leg doing illusion/paradon is an extremely common way to hurt yourself in footbag. In fact I think it even has a name, 'fetishes' (the marks you leave on your leg from kicking/slapping yourself).

Ben: What's wrong with playing near Somolinos?

(But in all seriousness... that sounds painful)

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 12 Sep 2006 18:01

james_dean wrote:lol pete. so pwned

yeah, i know. the worst part is whenever this happens, as you (in the general pluralized sense) may or may not know, the person you land on is completely unaffected while (worst case scenario) you are laying on the ground, crippled. this guy just stood there laughing, completely unhurt (and not even sure why i was)

then there's the usual getting kicked by OTHER people. like in the adam's apple. but thats actually fairly common in footbag (well, more in hacky sack...)

London · Post by **London** » 14 Sep 2006 14:01

Ha Ha Ha thouse are some good ones ouch id hate to get clipped by a ceeling fan. that reminds me of the thime when i was starting out playing footbag bag and was justkicking with a few friends under the infulence of alcohol and i went for a back of the neck stall...... well my ctch was way to low so i had my face pretty close to the ground. one of my friends go to kick it closly fallowed by the other but insted of hitting the footbag they both kicked my in the nose. one guy hitt me directly on the nose and as he lowered his foot the other guy kicked his foot causing me to get hithard twice. it was pretty grose with alot of blood but i couldent stop laffing... good times

moreon25 · Post by **moreon25** » 29 Sep 2006 18:57

I was trying PS WhirlingSwirl, when I brought my Swirling leg up it caught my Whirling leg on the way down

... I landed flat on both my knees

. It hurt like a muther-muther... Thank God for semi-thick rug

- it could've been bad, really bad.

Post by **Zac Miley** » 29 Sep 2006 19:15

I kicked myself TWICE IN THE SAME TRICK trying paradon.

I think I may have done it wrong.