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Dont throw your poles at the ground
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so i did my second ever sw up 270 out on my summer setup and my brother was filming. right after i landed it he laughed and said he missed the shot so i angrily slammed my right pole at the ground right in front of me. The pole bounced back up and hit me in the eye, bruising my retina and some other condition that i forgot the name of - but the white blood cells in my eye kind of just float around (it doesn't look nasty, you cant even see it)
moral of the story - throw your poles away from your body, or hold on to them if you decide to throw them down at the ground
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haha, congrats on the sw up 270,
sorry to hear about your eye.
does affect your vision?
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happened to me though. athough the vitims were my balls instead of my eyes. thank god i was wearing goggles.
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Reminds me of a vid I saw of some guys trying to smash a piano with baseball bats. The bat bounced off the piano, hit the guy on the forehead, and knocked him out.
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I will never encounter said problem. I do not utilise poles.
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poles bounce? no. they stick into snow
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they bounced because i didnt jab it into the snow. i rotated it down so it landed parralel with the ground, and then the tip flew back up. it was a summer sesh, so it hit the ground. my eye isnt fucked for life, its just slightly blurry right now and its gonna heal. im taking eye drops 4 times a day
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haha reminds me of this weird part of the season...
i would throw my poles like 40ft on accident whenever i over rotated Bs sw ups. It was so weird cuz it was like my natural reaction to send my poles flying on only one trick. Eventually i almost hit someone and started wearing my straps.
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haha, thanks man. that was golden.
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haha thats funny but at the same time it sucks for you
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the white blood cell things are called Caracts i think.
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That sucks mang. Hope your eye gets better.
Poles have done their number on me too. I was dropping a cliff and as I landed, my pole shot up into my face and broke my nose and fucked up my lip/teeth.
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many that suck that happened to me to but i was wearing goggles and surptisingly it didnt scratch them
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that sucks man. I usually just hit mine against a tree. good job on the sw up 270 out. I got mine on sunday night, totally out of the blue, felt amazing.
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aha o man dude that blows, what did u do after it happened? since you have double angriness.
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when i was learning 7s, i got really frustrated after yet another crash and threw my pole at the side of my ski sticking out of the snow. The edge of my ski somehow sliced the pole almost all the way through. But a broken pole is certainly better than an injured eye.
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ive hit my knee to my eye really bad when i knuckled on a large table
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