Best "got hit in the jewels" contest.

[attila]

Ok Since we are on the subject -who has the best nut story?. I heard( unconfirmed) that one of my college club guys lost a testicle to a hit. I had a great epee hit on me by Wes Waldron at the Ca. State Games. Man it was hard but i didn't let on .I just got back on the guard line an chased his *** down and hit him really hard in the chest ( one light). The best I have actually witnessed was a foil hit so hard it went through M. Botenhagen's knickers and into his jewels. I remember the video of him fencing where the reel wire keeps bobbing up and down behind him as usual and it suddenly plummets to the ground- along with him. He ended in a three point position on the floor- only his toes and his mask were touching the ground.It was hilarious ( until you realize the seriousness of the situation).

[DamedEscrime]

Attila, what are you thinking???

[Purple Fencer]

I think I hold the record for nut shots at SwordPlay, although I haven't taken one in a looooong time.

I was sparring with Donald Benge once. It was 4-4 and I did a beat-disengage attack that scored. He went for a four pary and brough his blade up fast....righ into the underside of my crotch!

It was one of my verty rare wins against "The Benge", but I paid for it!

[Blade]

A relatively new fellow to our club asked in his first week, did he need protection for there.

Of course the club all laughed at him.

The very next week where does he get hit, in the groin.

He so far is the only person in the club ever to have asked about that. He now pretty much gets hit there on a regular basis. Each time it happens we get a laugh.

And still no guard.

PS. That sounded a lot funnier in my head

[attila]

Greets DamedEscrime

I'm thinking that if we get a few painful stories out maybe even I will start wearing one

[Zelda]

What about hit in the throat stories??? I've got a few of them!!!

[attila]

Greets DamedEscrime

I'm thinking that if we get a few painful stories out maybe even I will start wearing one

[Konstantinos]

Ive had a BUNCH of near misses lately, so after all the stories here, i decided to try one out. I wore one today at the club and sure enough...took a shot to the crotch, All Praise the CUP!

[DamedEscrime]

Good Texas Boy! Kepp them jewels intact!! They may come in handy one day...

[Purple Fencer]

Originally posted by DamedEscrime:
<STRONG>Good Texas Boy! Kepp them jewels intact!! They may come in handy one day... </STRONG>

Why, Dame...are you hitting on the poor boy?

[Konstantinos]

[edew]

Groin hits aren't that bad. The worst are the funny bone hits. My left funny bone (I'm left-handed) gets hit ALL the time, and now, it's so permanently inflamed that it hurts when I put my elbow against the bed when I sleep. Any suggestions (besides the obvious, wear an elbow protector) for the funny bone? Actually both get hit, although the left one gets hit more often than the right.

[Konstantinos]

Originally posted by edew:
<STRONG>Groin hits aren't that bad. The worst are the funny bone hits. My left funny bone (I'm left-handed) gets hit ALL the time, and now, it's so permanently inflamed that it hurts when I put my elbow against the bed when I sleep. Any suggestions (besides the obvious, wear an elbow protector) for the funny bone? Actually both get hit, although the left one gets hit more often than the right.</STRONG>

I actually have no idea how to reply to that other than stop fencing for a little while, OR fence with your open hand straight :\ you needa let that area calm down.

Of course, you may have a strange physiology seeing as how you think a tingle in the arm is worse than a sharp piercing pain that starts in your groin and works its way up your stomach and makes you want to heave, as you writhe in agony on the floor...screaming every Divine Name you can think of in between your gasps of air

[swordsen]

By saying a tingle in the arm you show that you have been lucky enough to not get hit very hard on the funny bone. a girl a coach got hit therer by her opponents bell once at a tournament in florida. ( I keep telling her she is fencing too close) But it paralyzed her arm. The arm curled up, the hand clenched, the whole deal. It took nearly her entire ten minutes for injury before she could let go of her foil. For the first time in my career I tried to talk one of my fencers into withdrawing from an event. She refused, lost the bout (she couldn't move her arm) But in the break before teh DE's she got better and took third overall.

As far as testicle killers my best came when an opponent attacked low and his blade caugt on the strip then released and snapped up into my groin. Needless to say I was stopped in my tracks for awhile.

The same thing happened to me in a different tournament but it missed my groin, came up and whipped across my left nipple. I am not sure which event hurt more.

[arcon]

I hope that if i dont talk about it then it wont happen.

Yeah! in a perfect world.

The Arcon

[Bugaboo]

One of my associates worries that the protective cup is so obvious under his knickers as to be obnoxious to anyone who happens to glance there. It's a standard cup size (most size variations involve the elastic/cotton bikinis, not the plastic plating itself), so I don't know what to tell the guy. He still hasn't committed to the protection, even after a few epee taps in the area.

[Konstantinos]

swordsen
OW...nothing that bad...no. Just the annoying tingles and sharp pain. Of course, the only bell guard incident ive had was today when do to a fleche and a lunge at the same time, we were in a bad position and i took a bellguard's edge to the knuckle, denting my hand for a bit. that just SMARTS
Hope your friend hasnt had any long term problems due to that hit.

[Boo Boo Too]

I have two stories:

About a year after I started fencing, I was fencing foil with a male friend at a Summer camp. I fleched at him, but aimed too low, my foil went between his legs, I realised that it was too low, so pulled it upwards sharply. From his feotal position on the floor, I assume that it was VERY painful. Still, he forgave me and - eight years on - we are happily married (and I haven't made a habit of hitting him there).

The second story is about a male friend who was hit so hard in the groin that he actually threw-up in his mask. Poor guy (I wasn't the person who hit him there...)

Boo

[its_me_mango]

i would wear a larger cup to accommodate the "problem" - but i don't have that particular problem.

actually some of the best shots are verbal, but so far it's nearly impossible to control, because it becomes endless, endless endless sniping and ends up with someone knocking down 110 stories off office space and killing 12,000 people, and then the endless endless endless retaliations.

ALL IN ALL....i'm glad i fence, it makes us more normal than most.

[Inquartata]

In this particular "contest", I suspect that the "winners" envy the losers...