What was your worst paintball experience, injury....

[Dayspring]

I remember when that happened. When was that again? Many many moons if I am right.

Originally posted by Miscue
That be a femur.

[SirOssis]

Don't think anything can top Miscue's but heres a few of mine/teammates

Teammate slid on his knees into a bunker only to have his knee find a huge boulder that was just barely sticking out of the ground(shattered knee cap)

I was running at full sprint to go bunker a guy, trip, and slammed into like a 200 year old oak tree... the tree won. dislocated collar bone. Was a month before I could hold a gun again and what do I do the very first tourney back? I ran into another tree...

earlier this year slid into a bunker on knees and my knee found a sappling that had been cut a couple inches about the ground. It shattered the knee pad and sliced my knee, 5 stitches

ball shots... a few.. worst one was when I was off field behind the netting. ball hit at the base of the netting and bounced straight up into the left one.

[spazzed]

Sweet sweet ACL love!! BAD PAIN!! GOOD DRUGS!!.... My most paintful moment was getting shot in the friggin' ear. I still don't know how it happened, but it didn't feel good!!

[hitech]

I guess I'm just luckier than most. I have been shot in the balls (once in over 15 years of playing). However the worst was in a tournament I was running at full speed trying to catch up to the flag carrier (opposing team) just as I bring my marker up to fire I trip over a downed tree branch (this was back when tournaments were in the woods). After three summersaults I slid to a stop, with much dirt in my pants. I start firing like crazy, and nothing happens. I notice that my hopper had fallen off in the fall. I think about just dumping some paint in the feed neck, but it's too late. They have already hung the flag. On my way off the field I noticed that I had a very large dirt plug in my barrel. I walked up to my team and apologized to my team for loosing the game only to find out we hung the flag first! We were almost back to our flag station with the flag and in a battle with the opposition when I started my LONG run.

[projekt23]

Ball Buster

One of my first times playing a megagame in Sedona Arizona.
100 + ppl per team... I was laying down on my back to creep between a couple of rocks for a clear shot at the other team. Out of the corner of my eye I saw some movement and and a second later a ball made perfect contact with my left nut.. OUCH!!! 2 players had to carry me off the field and I sat out for about 5 hours as lefty grew 4 times orignal size.. What did I learn from this experiance.. ALWAYS WEAR A CUP!!

[kevdupuis]

Dislocated a bone in my left foot while running the flag into do a hang. I caught it between two rocks ten feet from the flag station. You could hear me swear across the field as I went down, but I still made the hang.

[EsPo]

Re: Ball Buster

Originally posted by projekt23
as lefty grew 4 times orignal size..

well at least it grew

[yeahthatsme]

i got another one.

my very. very!! first game of paintball i got heat sickness and threw up all over the place. i went home. then i came back. played somemore and now i'm hooked!!!!!!!

[FalconGuy016]

I got shot in the ear once when a teammate shot me in the back of the head... it hurt a LOT and it was so loud, but I didnt even know (nor did anyone else) the paintball broke until after the game.

[booyah]

Two good ones...

first
Micigan monster game 2000, back by archie bunker took a 3 shot burst from a guy about 10 feet away in a ghili suit right on the right one.... no breaks. had two refs help me back the 1.5 miles!!!!!

second
at my local feild, was running low on paint and a guy ran into a bunker where he could completely get the angle on me, as soon as he got to the bunker i took off running the 20 feet between us, i get to his bunker lift my gun above it and get the words "TAKE THE H-" out before he pops up and fires 3 inchs away... hits one inch left of my left nipple, good thing it was one inch left or i would have lost the left nipple, still have a scar from that one.

what made that one hurt that much more, was afterwords he said "yeah some kid from the dead box said 'HERE HE COMES'"

grrrrr.......newbes...

-Booyah

[Sir Chopsalot]

ok this didnt happen to me, but it happend the day i was at the field

My friend and i show up at the field and just as we were getting on the road to get there this ambulance goes by. We dont think anything of it. The refs say we are going to play on a new field today and he shows all the junk around it and then there is this hill with alot of tall grass and he makes everyone listen and says "Ok now look closely (pulls grass out of the way to show a inch thick stick sticking out of the ground about 2 feet) dont dive here, someone already did today and landed on their balls. We had to call an ambulance"

ehhhh i thought it was a good story anyway

[Evil Bob]

1982... my third game...

Was sneaking up a creekbed with a friend of mine, we were working our way up toward the road in deep shadows and underbrush. The flag is but 10 feet from us on the edge of the road with a lone defender. My friend motions that he's going for the flag, I motion that I will follow. We painstakingly make our way up the slope through the underbrush. We're close, only a 2 feet from the flag. He snaps a twig, the defender moves around trying to see into our cover. We inch steadily closer trying to remain silent. Then I hear a *POP* and my friend recoils and yells out "OOOOOOWWWWWWWW!!!!" He slides down the slope on his back in pain. I turn and look for the defender and come face to face with the business end of a Nelspot 007 pistol, which a second later fires all of 6 inches from my face. The world spins and I too slide down the slope in agony... turns out we were both shot in the face at extremely close range, and the flag defender had just changed his 12g CO2 capsule 5 minutes earlier...

You see, in 1982, long before water based paint was introduced to paintball, we used oil based paint, it was heavy as hell and imparted alot of energy to the target when it hit, much more so then today's paintballs. Additionally, there was no face protection back then either other then cheap $2 shop goggles that offered very poor eye protection. I luckily took that heavy paintball on the right cheek bone from 6 inches away instead of in the goggles which I know full well would have failed at that range. I ended up with a bruised cheekbone, a slight concussion, and bizarre orange zits for a month from the hit location.

-Evil Bob

[Troy]

Worst injury to a team mate:

Chis "Beef Stick" on the SOBs once got bagged in the berries. One of his testicles swelled up to the diameter of a guppie. He has to sit in an examining room while doctors try to determine if the testicle has to be removed. As he waits to find out if he is going to lose a nut every nurse and doctor in the hospital check him out.

[ben_JD]

Re: What was your worst paintball experience, injury....

Originally posted by Automager
What was your worst paintball experience, injury....

Pride, my friend. Wounded, bloody pride.

[Spaceman613]

Everything has healed... including the bruised ego. ripped knees, blood, sunburns that blister, and more back problems than some football teams. But the thing that hurts the worst is the pride.

And even that will heal with time.