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DrewKaree:
Sorry to make you throw up, but it seriously is :-\
My buddies never used to wear the safety glasses before the first time we saw it. A raquetball can get some SERIOUS speed going, and what usually ends up happening is the ball takes an angle you've never seen before in your life. Bang. Eye problem. A good server can get the ball up in the mid-100's, EASY. Not to mention the room gets fairly tiny when you throw in three other people besides yourself, and you're trying to avoid them and either hit or avoid the ball, someone's racket, the wall.... :o
When my buddies and I first started playing, we weren't sure on how the rules went and didn't much care...we were enjoying banging the ball around. We thought if you got hit with the ball, you won the point. If someone built up a big enough lead, we "gave" him the game by trying to hit him with the ball and get the game over with quicker. You can raise some SERIOUS welts...so much so that one of my buddies ended up puking in the locker room because he was in so much pain.
Raquetball is like jai alai but in a smaller enclosed space. People have gotten killed in jai alai matches...doubt you'll get killed playing racketball, but some seriously bad stuff CAN and WILL happen, so make sure to wear the safety equipment, kiddies!
M3talhead:
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--- Quote from: DrewKaree on April 13, 2005, 08:52:05 pm ---Be glad it's a tooth!
I used to play tournaments, and saw two different instances of a guy leaving the court holding an eyeball. :o
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I have this thing about eyes. I can watch open heart, open brain, open anything surgery, but if you put a scalpel or a needle anywhere within the vacinity of an eyeball I freak out.
I hope to god that story is not true. if it is, .. I might just throw up.
:-X
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Usually when someone loses an eye playing raquetball, its because the ball grazes their temple, creating a vaccuum that follows it. That low pressure is great enough that the eye just gets sucked behing the ball, pulling with it your optical nerve cord. Never seen it happen, but it does.
Anywqays, I went to see the base oral surgeon and he gave me a root canal and cemented the broken piece back on. It took about an hour and a half in the chair, but it was worth it. I got to hold a mirror and watch everything, from sticking the anesthetic needle in my gum, to watching the canal procedure, to cementing the thing back on. Pretty cool. You cant hardly tell anything even broke. All I have to do now is watch what I eat (I.E. no apples, hard breads, hotdogs, etc..)
GGKoul:
My buddy lost some hearing in his ear because he took a direct hit in the ear with a racketball.
Dartful Dodger:
--- Quote from: GGKoul on April 14, 2005, 11:09:19 am ---My buddy lost some hearing in his ear because he took a direct hit in the ear with a racketball.
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DrewKaree:
Better yet, look at it as a gift from God. You had the most unique whistle in the world, tuned to just a certain frequency....and you just went and screwed it up by going to the dentist >:( You're one of those Pro-Dentite's, aren't you? >:(
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