Most Entertaining Training Injury

[william_cain_iii]

So folks, what's your most entertaining training injury?

Yesterday I was having a demonstration at a university in order to promote good clean swordplay fun, and it was really raining. I was practicing on a pell while everyone was still arriving (it was a big pumpkin launch using trebuchets, we were there to kind of piggyback on it and get interest out).

Well, I stepped in with ye old Englishe cock-step, and when my heel hit the ground, my leg shot forward and I crashed onto my side. Ddin't think much of it at the time, except how humble it definitely made me feel. Yet today, I can barely move said leg. Pulled summat in there for sure!

[CalebChow]

Simple sparring with steel blunts, a zorn caught me in the right elbow. Wasn't a big deal, but it really hurt throughout the night as I tried to sleep. Internal swelling in addition to the crushed bleeding skin, apparently.

It's been nearly two years since then, the scar is still there.

If only it were a bit larger, I could impress more ladies with it!

[Martin Wallgren]

I got a heavely armed danish knee in my thigh at Swordfish 2009 event.

[Stacy Clifford]

I was doing some free-play with steel one night when a cut caught me on the elbow and split the skin even through the kevlar fencing jacket I wore for sparring back then. After class that night we went to see opening night of "LOTR: The Two Towers" while my sword wound was still oozing blood.

[Ian Mac Pharlaine]

Where do I begin...

Apart from a few jammed fingers and two waffle patterns engraved into my head, I'd have to say my most epic injury was an accidental thrust to the mouth that busted a hole clean through my lip.... vessel hanging out, lots of blood... VERY painful.

Luckily I didnt lose any teeth and it healed without leaving a "piercing"; the scar is now barely visible unless I press my tongue aganst my lip to make it visible.

[william_cain_iii]

...jesus christ dude, OW.

Wow. Did you go on to devour his soul, or perhaps sunder his head in retaliation?

[Jaron Bernstein]

I once had my forearm punctured by the (square) cross of a steel blunt during sword and buckler freeplay. I couldn't fully use the arm/hand from the elbow down for about 2 weeks. The funniest part was explaining to the emergency department staff how I got the injury. I don't think they believed me.