Surprise bind after a hard throw, and the Musashi is heading straight for the side of my face. Time slows to a crawl, and I can see the hard cold edge of death itself spinning at about a million miles an hour coming to end my life. In this matrix-like time warp I have time to wonder about mistakes I’ve made, things I could have done differently.
I did the only thing I could do. I cowered behind my throw hand like a frightened bunny. A pain so intense it causes a blinding flash of light behind my eyes, and the back of my hand ignites as if napalm had been dropped from a fighter bomber directly on it. The pain swells, and as the flash of brilliant light fades, I hear three things. The sounds of breaking glass, a giggling nine year old boy, and liquid hitting the floor.
It seems the Musashi ricocheted off the bones of my hand and vaporized the top half of a pint glass containing a freshly poured Guinness, which was rapidly and tragically draining onto my kitchen floor. My son couldn’t stop laughing and just kept handing me paper towels while trying to get control of his laughter.
Hahahaha oh geeze what a story XD I feel for your beer man. That’s always a sad day
I took a my peak 2 to the lower mouth 3 days ago because it snagged. it put a welt that look like 4 mosquitoes bit me in a line across my lower mouth. Sucker still hurts. I was holding muh face for a good 5 minutes. :o
I was throwing my Terrarian the other day and didnt realize i had a snag. Gave it a good hard throw and the snag launched it right between my eyes. Made me see stars and left a nice welt.
Not really an accident per se, but I was having a bad day so I decided to throw for awhile to see if I could de-stress. Stupidly, rather than doing easy, relaxing tricks, I started right in on a trick I was working on and still struggling with. Naturally, I couldn’t hit the trick to save my life and got even more frustrated. I took the yoyo off my finger and meant to throw it harmlessly into the couch cushion. Somehow, I missed an entire couch at point-blank range, and hit the end table next to the couch. Miraculously the table was undamaged, but the yoyo was completely trashed. It was a Navigator. One of the rings popped off and both the ring and the yoyo half bent so I couldn’t really put it back together in any meaningful way. So that yoyo’s retired now but I keep it visible near where I usually throw as a reminder.
I hit my funny bone 2 times and it caused half my arm to go numb. I almost whacked myself in the face trying to get a finger spin to return to my hand.
My Basecamp Expedition gave me a nice scar on my forehead. It had quite the snag that I didn’t notice until I threw a breakaway and launched back into my face. Fortunately I avoided needing stitches.
I hit the back of my throw hand one time so hard it knocked the breath out of me. I limped back to the couch with a severe pain in my hand that felt hot, throbbing, and prickley and sat there and tried to breathe again.
It was mostly useless for the next week, I couldnt open a jar of jelly to save my life. I couldnt make a fist, I couldnt wiggle my fingers without inducing really sharp pain. I don’t know what happened, Ive taken hundreds and hundreds of hits to the back of the hand, but there is this tiny area, maybe 10mm x 10mm square that, ever since, if something hits it, im done!
It only took a couple weeks to go away back to mostly normal, thankfully.
I swear its like it revealed a hidden weakness I have and now know about a vulnerability. It was really eye opening.
I just love it how your yoyo string ‘secretly’ had a knot in it as if it was trying to hide it from you. I’m picturing a yoyo in my head with a sly look on it’s face.