With all the technological advancements in the sport of rowing, it has become easier and easier to go faster. These technological advancements have also brought with them the added advantage of reducing serious injuries. However, rowing is a sport, and, as with any sport, injuries do occur. Some of these injuries can be serious unfortunatly, however some of them can just be plain ammusing. I have decided to try and gather together some of these comedy injuries, and let everyone enjoy them. If you have had, or know of someone who has had a comedy injury, please email me, and I'll put it up asap. All contributions will remain anonymous (unless otherwise requested!)
Contusion of the testicles
Yes guys, as the name suggests
it is a very painful affliction. In this case the accident
occured whilst the bloke was out sculling, or, more to the point,
getting into the sculling boat. He had placed his shoes behind
the strecter, and was preparing to push off. To do this he drew
his blade accross the boat, and proceeded to push himself off.
However, in doing so he managed to jab himself in the balls with
the handle. As you can imagine his reaction was to double up in
pain. However this was the worst thing that he could have done,
as it meant that hsi weight wasn't balenced in the boat. As a
result the boat tipped towards the side with the oar drawn
accross. This happend quite quickly, resulting in the blade
hammering down into the poor guy's groin again. Apparently this
was really painfull, meaning that he was unable to sit up to
remove the handle from his groinal area, as a result the blade
remained in place, and continued pressing down onto his balls.
This could have gone on all day, but luckily the wind blew the
boat away from the side, and he fell in. As one can imagine, he
was not a happy chappy afterwards, and wet and bruised had to
limp all the way home.
Cracking a rib ...... nasty fashion.
