Balls!!
Whilst playing hockey at school with our former professional player/teacher I decided to be in goal. Apparently she was impressed by my skills and decided to shoot a quick ball at me... Unfortunately it bounced up and knocked my square in the head at speed. I've never seen a teacher fear so much for her own career!

Some years later a friend of mine also decided to repeat the same move with a nine iron and a golf ball. That caused a nice bump on my head!

Two other short ones : I once did full splits when skateboarding. At the time it was uncomfortable. Two hours later we went for a family trip to southport and I suddenly stopped on the promenade. When asked what was wrong I said I couldn't move. My whole pelvis locked up... It took a moment for it to free up. This happened on and off for a few days.

I also managed to simultaneously sprain both of my wrists by falling forward and not cushioning the blow by bending my arms. Trying to go from a sitting on the floor position to a stood up position with two sprained arms was like some sort of ancient torture. Absolute agony!!!

Last one - As a new member of the scouts on a wide game I wanted to impress and capture the flag... I ran down the hill towards the base at speed and my team members where super impressed... Alas it was dark... I ran nutsack first into a tree stump and proceeded to do a rather impressive somersault... The gods were smiling on me though as I suffered only a bruised ego and an achey crotch
( beefandcheese, Thu 2 Sep 2004, 17:27, Reply)