Had a Paintball related injury, wanna be in PGI?

[Tyger]

I'm working on an article for PGI, and a section deals with injury prevention.

So, I'd like to find out if any of you folks would like to be in PGI? Reply to this post and tell teh world about the best (Or, arguably, worst) paintball related injury you've ever sustained. A good story with it is a shoe in for inclusion!

And, before you ask, my two "best" are a broken ankle and I locked my backbone once. Story available after a few of you jump in on it.

The world is watching, and you can gain fame through your bodily harm? What else could you want?

-Tyger

 

[Collier]

Took a nasty shot to my left nad if that counts?

Paul

 

[Burb]

I took one to the right........

 

[duffistuta]

Slightly O/T: Couldn't resist...

I wasn't going to share this with the board, but Tyger has left me with no option...

Calamity Jones is not in the office today...PGI's esteemed editor spent most of last night in casualty after knocking himself out when walking his dog.

Yes, Ant walked into a tree and now has a bruise across his face and a sore throat from thorwing up all night thanks to concussion.

This is the latest in a long line of extreme sports injuries for Calamity, the last two being breaking his toe whilst watching the film Emma, and spraining his ankle in a department store.

Oooh, and I forgot to add the time when he was opening a parcel with a knife, cutting towards himself and up, and he slipped and stabbed himself in the face...blood ran down his face, tears of laughter ran down ours.

The last was done while in PGI towers, so is officially a Paintball injury I spose.

 

[Gazz_KW]

Injury -

Mark Fordyce (aka Monkey) from the Keltic Warriors, broke his ankle on our very first Tourney at Nottingham on May 13th 2001, 5-man....

Unfortunately for Mark, his first tourney action came to an abrupt end about 5 seconds after the start of game three (in the woods) when on the break he ran to cover, started a slide into the barricade, when his foot got caught underneath him and POW!! an ankle dislocated and broken in two places.
A trip to an English hospital where we managed to get him out at around 9pm followed up by a long haul North before another stay in yet another hospital...........

Back to normal of sorts now, complete with titainium plate in his ankle and multiple screws just below the skin which he will gladly let anyone have a feel of....

 

[mikeyR]

I thought the article was about prevention not who sustained the worse injury?

My first time playing I got hit on the skin between my fingers which split the skin, to PREVENT this happening again I bought some gloves.

I wear a neoprene back support to PREVENT my back from collapsing (dont laugh, I'm one step away from surgery).

I wear neoprene shorts to PREVENT groin/hamstring pulls and bruising from slides.

I wear knee & elbow pads to PREVENT the usual knocks and bruises.



I think this is what Tyger is on about.

P.S

Yes, I am a Hypochondriac

 

[TJ Lambini]

I wear goggles to prevent blindness and also so my winning smile doesn't cause all chicks from within a 10-mile radius to hurl themselves at my feet during a game, thus affecting my Chi.

 

[Charlie]

nah man if you re-read Tygers post he wants to hear our worst paintball related injuries.

I so (touch wood) have not suffered any major injuries full stop (and I play american football and rugby as well). Closest I got in paintball was a bouncer off my inner thigh which clipped my right nad, thankfully not too much so was not too bad.

I have, however, seen a couple of nasty injuries. The first was at Temple a few years ago when I belive it was Rafe Farmer who slipped over and put his back out (or was it broken ) whilst playing for Storm.

The next happened to an old team mate at a pump tourney at Holmbush about 4 years ago. They guys was firing like mad, never seen a phantom go so fast, I was just walking off the field when in front of me he darts out of his bunker to move up the field and then collapses to the floor screaming in agony. What he hadn't realised was that Dave Kou (not sure how you spell that surname) was only 3 meters in front of him walking up the field and when he saw my mate come out of his bunker he shot him. However, after my mate eventually got off the floor (about 10 minutes later) we found out that he had got shot dead centre of his nob Lets say he was walking funny for a while.

 

[knobbs]

Isn't really my injury, but I'll share it...

One summer my company was having a kind of "Mini Olympics" where two divisions in the company formed teams to compete in 7 or 8 different events. Paintball was one of those events. During game 3, which took place in a woods field, I got shot out and was walking off the field. Someone else from my team decided to fill my spot and ran to the bunker I was leaving, sliding in at the end.

He immediately lay back on his back and started waving his arms calmly yelling "Medic! Medic!" I started laughing at the way he was reacting to his hit, as did another teammate who was just a few feet away at another bunker. Figuring he was just taking the war imagery to the extreme, we stood there for a bit laughing before he yelled, "No, REALLY! Medic!!!"

I asked what was wrong and he said it was his ankle. We stopped the game and walked him off the field. There happened to be a paramedic for the Army playing on another field, and he looked at it and said that it was a nasty sprain, but he'd be okay. We sat him on a couch and he said he'd wait until we were done. He was in really good spirits, so we figured that was that, just a sprained ankle. About a game later, he said that he wanted to go to the doctor because it hurt too much for a sprained ankle. Sure enough, it was broken in two places and he spent the next few months with pins in his leg while it healed.

 

[JoseDominguez]

Last year, simply the best: woodland.
Two players left against three of us, just me and two back men. So I ran up, keeping low while the back men made their way forward. Other players spotted my team mates, so I made a dash across some open ground while thye were distracted.
Ground was uneven and I overbalanced, no problem.. I just forward flip and back on my feet, just like Sup-air.
Didn't see the tree stump.
240 lbs of sprinting lunatic slams down with his lower back on a broken tree stump.
Next I'm laying on the ground wondering what day it is, what just happened and did anyone see the rhino that ran over me.
I get up, as the site first aider gets to me and shakes his head saying "Jesus, you got up". All four pots in my slam harness shattered, EVERY ball in my hopper burst and blaze pouring out everywhere I hobble up the field feeling something clicking in my lower back with every step.
I get to the other end, the back men have eliminated the other team, our captain didn't see me go down yells "run the flag".
So I do, sprinting the length of the field, tasting blood and wondering why everything is slightly purple. I hang the flag, wander towards the tape, a spectator shouts at me to "stay in" and I turn round, then slowly collapse wondering who the hell is playing those drums.
So, I got one concussion, bruised kidneys, strained lumbar muscles, bruised ribs and a contusion shaped like map of Baghdad (circa 2003) imprinted on my lower back. Missed a week of work and had to watch a lot of daytime crap TV (it's a government conspiracy.. reduce unemployment by driving them to suicide).
The moral o this story? If I hadn't been wearing a quality battlepack with decent lumbar support I'd have broken my back. My JT slam harness saved my spine.