What? No wall ball to the face off the pizza-pan-on-a-tree target??!! I’d have taken the narcotics and saved them for the next time I did Fran. But that’s me…
Walking home from class one night in San Angelo TX, 3 friends and I thought it’d be a good idea to see if we could catch one of the jack rabbits we pass every night. So we all start encircling one of them and start closing in. The rabbit of course takes off and we give chase trying to keep him corraled between us. The rabbit isn’t liking the attention and tries to break out in my direction and I run to cut him off at full sprint… needless to say my attention is fully on the rabbit and not looking where I’m going. Next thing I know, I’m lying on the ground with my 3 friends all standing around me looking down at me half laughing half panic. I apparently ran square into a low branch, did a back flip and was knocked out cold. I ended up with about a 3 inch cut on the center of my scalp, but no real dmg. My friends still tease me to this day about chasing jack rabbits… thinking back, i’m glad i never caught that thing.
Walking home from class one night in San Angelo TX, 3 friends and I thought it’d be a good idea to see if we could catch one of the jack rabbits we pass every night. So we all start encircling one of them and start closing in. The rabbit of course takes off and we give chase trying to keep him corraled between us. The rabbit isn’t liking the attention and tries to break out in my direction and I run to cut him off at full sprint… needless to say my attention is fully on the rabbit and not looking where I’m going. Next thing I know, I’m lying on the ground with my 3 friends all standing around me looking down at me half laughing half panic. I apparently ran square into a low branch, did a back flip and was knocked out cold. I ended up with about a 3 inch cut on the center of my scalp, but no real dmg. My friends still tease me to this day about chasing jack rabbits… thinking back, i’m glad i never caught that thing.
Thats freakin hillarious… If you caught the jack rabbit he probably would have cut you up worse then the tree branch did. They can be real nasty.
Well…I managed to knock myself out in KM class last Thursday. Elbow uppercuts are dangerous. My elbow bounced off the pad I was hitting and my fist caught me right in the chin. Its purple and swollen now. Hurt really bad. I tried to completely ignore it and act like it never happened. Saturday during a boxing class, the instructor took one look at me, drug me in front of everyone, made me lift my chin, and then proceeded to tell the entire group “now THATS why you’re supposed to keep your hands up!!”.
It was rather embarrassing to have to explain that the bruise wasnt because I dropped my guard, but because I managed to uppercut myself.
Well…I managed to knock myself out in KM class last Thursday. Elbow uppercuts are dangerous. My elbow bounced off the pad I was hitting and my fist caught me right in the chin. Its purple and swollen now. Hurt really bad. I tried to completely ignore it and act like it never happened. Saturday during a boxing class, the instructor took one look at me, drug me in front of everyone, made me lift my chin, and then proceeded to tell the entire group “now THATS why you’re supposed to keep your hands up!!”.
It was rather embarrassing to have to explain that the bruise wasnt because I dropped my guard, but because I managed to uppercut myself.
I was doing cable curls ( yes yes I know) with about 120 lbs when I stepped over to the water fountain in between sets ( of 8 mind you because cardio makes your muscles look stringy ) my little brother pulled the pin out of the weight stack since it was on the back of the machine I didnt noticed until I pulled up for the first rep of my next set. needless to say one chipped tooth and a very fat lip later I decided that cable curls maybe werent such a good idea. Thank God for crossfit now I have all new non machine ways to hurt myself.
When I first started training I was with a few friends who also train in one form or another, we decided to see who could kick highest for fun, a sign was the target.
Needless to say, I ended up on my ass and a 3 inch bump on my tailbone. It lasted for about a month.
My “box” is my basement. Like so many others I do the WOD as close to Rx as possible. My limitations are often my equipment as much as my very definite non-elite status.
In preparing for the Chipper WOD that includes 20” box jumps, I thought that it would be a good idea to take my wife’s two step aerobic boxes with rubber edges and put them on top of a 45# bumper plate. Rubber on rubber; this isn’t gong to move, right? WRONG!
I landed on the edge of the top box on the first jump. The boxes promptly kicked out from under me falling off of the bumper plate and shooting across the basement into the dumbbell rack. I fell backward landing on the concrete @$$ over elbows. Bruised put laughing, I reset the boxes to 14” and finished the WOD. The box jumps may be low, but my body parts will remain intact.
Been there———done that!
) my little brother pulled the pin out of the weight stack since it was on the back of the machine I didnt noticed until I pulled up for the first rep of my next set. needless to say one chipped tooth and a very fat lip later I decided that cable curls maybe werent such a good idea. Thank God for crossfit now I have all new non machine ways to hurt myself.
