Injury stories thread

[Vrakul]

Hi all,

I couldn't find a thread devoted to sparring injury stories, so thought I might start one. Last night my little nephew came by and was absolutely blown away by my sabers, so we had to take them out back and duel. One great strike to the face later left me bloody with a nice gash across the bridge of the nose. What do you say to an 8 year old after that? All I could think of was, "Control. Control! You must learn control!"

[Master Nero Attoru]

While your injury was tragic, your response was priceless.  Well played.

As soon as I saw "Last night my little nephew came by" I knew this was gonna be painful...

[Vex]

You must STRESS no head shots and no uncontrolled hard swinging.

[Vrakul]

I'm just glad it was me and not him that took a solid hit. I know he wasn't going for the head, it was just a wild swing that I let through. I was in a low stance so, instead of going for the arm/torso, which is what I'm sure he meant to do, it went right across the face. I have officially gotten my butt handed to me by an eight year old. 

Later on, when there were a couple more kiddos out there, I supervised everything and stressed safety repeatedly; no head shots, watch your hands, watch your sister's hands, it's not a baseball bat, control, control, control! Your'e absolutely right, Vex; when they're 8, 9, and 10, with no martial training, you have to expect very little in the way of control. Inadvertent wild swings happen, and even when they're just clashing there are bound to be lots of near misses to little hands.

[Stockton]

Hand shots are about the only thing that has happened to me so far. Your hand between a heavy grade blade and an aluminum hilt is so not nice.

[Bleu32]

Epic 10 minute duel against my friend who wields a staff saber.. ends with a bold attack on both our parts, except he ended up hitting me in the crotch.

Then, end of the night, we have a fun free for all that culminates with me taking down one of our sith, while another sith did a running slide to whack my side (perfectly fine, gentle strike( then the staff user from before swings in and somehow, does another crotch shot. Que laying on the ground, wanting to facepalm.

Thankfully I was fine, despite some soreness. I'm still lecturing him on controlling his attacks!

[Master Lucien Kane]

I've been stabbed in the eye, and took a pretty hard hit to the temple... no gashes but plenty of shiners and bruises to count for. Funny thing is... on both of those bad ones... I made contact first, and I got hit from my sparring partner's follow through!

[Master Uilos]

Cracked in the mouth by a metal hilt during choreography. Nothing broken, but my lower lip was cut up on the outside and inside.

And I chipped his hilt, too

[Envy]

Hand shots are about the only thing that has happened to me so far. Your hand between a heavy grade blade and an aluminum hilt is so not nice.

^^THIS

yeah thats about all ive gotten... bloody knuckle once...
I took an especially hard shot to the pinky once... thought i broke it... but i didnt... just a bad bruise...

[Darth Unobtanium]

my brother got me in the eye. No joke. Since his entire strategy consists of "small wild swings and unblockable hard stabs," it was no surprise that he used his idiot-no-jutsu and nearly put my eye out.

[Master Lucien Kane]

eye protection is definitely good.

[derpmeister66]

Friend of mine has a custom made saber and in one of our group gatherings he snapped someones $20 hasbro saber.  The person didn't know their saber was snapped when they turned towards me, got a nice gash on my upper arm from it.  Besides that most I've had are some bruises and red marks. 

[Master Lucien Kane]

Ooh I almost forgot one of my best injuries lol I was dueling with one of my buddies, and I started to bolt up to the deck. The stairway up to the deck is dilapidated. So it takes some leaping and such to get up there, so I'm sprinting up this stairway, and I managed to catch a sharp corner with my chest. Took a pretty good chunk out, I was hoping for a nice scar... but I never scar

[Kaiden Shardsbane]

Hand shots, knee shots, took a couple to the head, the standard.  One time we were sparring and my opponent's tip came off when i blocked, flew forward and hit me in the face.

Oh, and I broke a rib once.

[Luna]

I took an arrow to the knee.... seriously though, I've only had some busted knuckles and a painful strike to the unmentionables (thanks for that, SOTJ ).