your worst yoyo accident?

You really have to be careful with those Orbitals!

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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.

I️ hit my finger while doing horizontal with my hattori

Still have a small scar

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.

Bleeding hand from practicing grinds on a dinged shutter, funny bone 4 times.

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.

My glasses have a bunch of dings in them from yoyos

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Throwing while wearing a smart watch, thirty seconds into it and the watch screen is toast. Not one of my brightest moments.

Worst yoyo accident? Accidentally posting the same yoyo accident in two different “yoyo accident” threads!

I throw a yoyo that secretly had a not in it. swung around and hit me right in the ear. left my ear ringing all day.

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.

Haha, it made me chuckle.

I have a pretty high pain threshold but I hit the bone in my lower arm so hard all I could do was sit and do a full body shake. No other accident hurt me that bad.

One time I mistimed my yoyo delivery, and my wife got the package! ;D

It’s still her favorite yoyo! :smiley:

Like so many of the other stories here. I had a snag I hadn’t noticed. But mine wasn’t super bad so the Joyride actually slept but as soon as I tried to get it on the string, it bound up and snapped back and I wasn’t ready to catch it. Hit me in my right eye. Not a square hit and not with enough force to do anything more than shock me but I set it down for the evening. I figured I’d pushed my luck enough.

Had a knot in my dv888, threw it, hit me directly in the eye. Blood went into my eye and I couldnt see for a while. Lots of eye doctor appointments later and I’m good to go! :wink:

P.S. I threw my dv888 again the day after this all happened :stuck_out_tongue:

Tried to do an offstring neck trick in a room with a very low ceiling… standing up. Yoyo, meet light bulb. Recently disbanded light bulb, meet floor.

Shattered a light while throwing in a room with a low ceiling. It wasn’t horrible but I had a lot of broken glass to pick up afterwards.

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Was throwing my basecamp expedition before work one morning and threw a break away to start a new trick. Didnt know I had a snag until it hit me in the the corner of my eye opposite of my throw hand. Saw a flash of light when it hit and instantly felt the pain. Dropped to one knee to gather myself. After a few moments, I walked to the bathroom to get a look at the damage. So lucky I was throwing a “rounder?” yoyo. I think a more angular yoyo would’ve split the skin. I had a nice red welt for a few hours and the area around my eye was sensitive and had a yellowish tint for a few days. Glad it didn’t go all out black eye. That would be fun to explain haha! Learned a valuable lesson and I pay attention now after a questionable or new to me bind. I thought splitting out chunks of fingernail past the quick and scarring knuckles were bad enough but I definitelty know different now. I’m thinking if yoyo expert put out a full coverage helmet in some cool colors that I would own one. Maybe match to my favorite throws? No matter the color, I certainly need it lol.

Welp, I just had another one. I’ve got the day of tomorrow so I’m up late goofing around. You ever feel like you’re neglecting them? I do. I grabbed my wind runner and was tossing it around. Bound it poorly and got a nice snag in it. Thought I could throw it a couple times to clear it. Nope. I put a little too much mustard on a breakaway (because I do dumb stuff like try to clear a yoyo with a breakaway throw) and it whipped around and caught me in the knuckle of my left middle finger. What’s funny is I didn’t realize I was bleeding until I picked up my ONEstar and was throwing it. As I was binding it up, it dragged through the blood on my knuckle and discolored the string, lol. I didn’t think I’d hit myself that hard but here it is. My little boo boo.

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You are truly living up to your namesake :wink: jj

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