Ever hit the bottom of a pool?

[TallBill]

Man.. i was swimming late at the hotel last night.. did a lil flippy turn around underwater and SMASHED my face into the bottom.. hurt like a sunuva. Ended up cuttin the bridge of my nose.. nothin extremely noticeable.. but had a brown ooze coming out. And my face is on fire now. O well... gonna get wasted tonight and go swimmin again.

 

[SHoddyCOmp]

I'll raise my hand for that one, I have and it sucks.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

I had a bloody head at the Hillsboro city pool one summer when I was in Jr. High from doing a dive off of the highest platform and trying to see how deep I could dive. The pool was a 12' and I nailed the bottom and blacked out for a few minutes.

nik

 

[TallBill]

luckily i didnt start pouring blood out in the pool who hits their face tho! ugh!

 

[Brutuskend]

yup, I scraped the skin off the end of my nose once @ a motel pool....

 

[Jzero]

Smacked into the side of the pool playing crosspool (Sharks and Minnows for all you hicks out there) and took off 3 braces and a pretty big piece of paint.
They found paint chips in my teeth like a month later even!

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt
I had a bloody head at the Hillsboro city pool one summer when I was in Jr. High from doing a dive off of the highest platform and trying to see how deep I could dive. The pool was a 12' and I nailed the bottom and blacked out for a few minutes.

nik

man, that explains a lot.

 

[WarmAndSCSI]

owwww

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: Ameesh

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt I had a bloody head at the Hillsboro city pool one summer when I was in Jr. High from doing a dive off of the highest platform and trying to see how deep I could dive. The pool was a 12' and I nailed the bottom and blacked out for a few minutes. nik

man, that explains a lot.

Nah. I was fscked way before that.

nik

 

[NogginBoink]

At a swim meet I saw a swimmer do a start on backstroke and go too deep. They took a door off its hinges and got him out of the pool into an ambulance on it.

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: NogginBoink
At a swim meet I saw a swimmer do a start on backstroke and go too deep. They took a door off its hinges and got him out of the pool into an ambulance on it.

How in the.....
What in the.....
Who in the......

Was this starting from in the water hanging off the block?!?!

 

[yllus]

Done it - jumping off the highest platform and thankfully only slamming my big toe against the pool's bottom. That was only my second jump from that platform too.

At a swim meet I saw a swimmer do a start on backstroke and go too deep.

I don't get it?

 

[Tangerine]

I'm another one who scraped my teeth on the bottom of a pool once. I still cringe when I think of it.

I was bedmates in the hospital once with a guy who was paralyzed from hitting his head on the bottom of a pool

 

[crab]

Ever hit the bottom of a pool?

Yea when I broke myy neck. It hurt just a little.

 

[NogginBoink]

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: NogginBoink
At a swim meet I saw a swimmer do a start on backstroke and go too deep. They took a door off its hinges and got him out of the pool into an ambulance on it.

How in the.....
What in the.....
Who in the......

Was this starting from in the water hanging off the block?!?!

Yep... toes curled over the edge of the pool, starter says "take your mark," you pull yourself up, when the starting gun goes off you launch yourself backward into the pool.

Arch your back too far and you go down.

When the starting blocks are in the shallow end of the pool, going down, on your back, back arched (thus head tilted back) is not a good idea.

 

[DaiShan]

Originally posted by: bob970
Man.. i was swimming late at the hotel last night.. did a lil flippy turn around underwater and SMASHED my face into the bottom.. hurt like a sunuva. Ended up cuttin the bridge of my nose.. nothin extremely noticeable.. but had a brown ooze coming out. And my face is on fire now. O well... gonna get wasted tonight and go swimmin again.

How deep was the pool? I've don't turns in about 3 feet of water, anyways I have never hit the bottom, but one time at a swim meet some kid busted his teeth out on the bottom lol.

 

[Hanpan]

Originally posted by: crab453

Ever hit the bottom of a pool?

Yea when I broke myy neck. It hurt just a little.

Now correct me if I am wrong but werent you trying to save someone but ended up paralyzed. I think you mentioned that once.

 

[Jzero]

Yep... toes curled over the edge of the pool, starter says "take your mark," you pull yourself up, when the starting gun goes off you launch yourself backward into the pool.

Arch your back too far and you go down.

When the starting blocks are in the shallow end of the pool, going down, on your back, back arched (thus head tilted back) is not a good idea.

Can't say as I've ever arched my back far enough to dip 3 feet in all my years of swimming.
That's whack!

 

[crab]

Originally posted by: Hanpan

Originally posted by: crab453

Ever hit the bottom of a pool?

Yea when I broke myy neck. It hurt just a little.

Now correct me if I am wrong but werent you trying to save someone but ended up paralyzed. I think you mentioned that once.

Yup.

 

[NogginBoink]

I also worked with a guy at IBM who's in a wheelchair as a result of an accident at the local swimming hole.

 

[Azraele]

Not in a pool, no, but on a dare, in the shallows of the ocean I tried to do a flip underwater and smacked my head a good one on the sand.

 

[TallBill]

yowsers... pools are dangerous... i got a nice lil scar now

btw, it was like 3 feet of water... and im 6'8"

did it fine the first few times

 

[txgixer]

Hit my head, nothing broken though . . . .

Just a nice jammed neck :frown:

 

[MaxDepth]

I lost count of my strokes P) doing the backstroke in a Junior High swim meet. I crashed into the side of the pool and fractured my skull.

Problem was my hair was so thick at the time, my parents and I didn't know it was that bad until a week later I started to have these horrible migrane-like headaches every time I went underwater. It turns out the calcium from my skull (while trying to stitch my skull back together) was breaking up under the pressure from the water and entering the bloodstream.

It felt like I was wearing an iron helmet and someone was whacking me on it with a baseball bat. Now, I just have a lump on the back of the old nogging from the extra bone buildup.

 

[Amused]

My brother broke his neck doing high dives off of a cliff at the Little Rock Rec area north of Los Angeles about 18 years ago. The wind blew him over a few feet into a shallow sand bar. Luckily he wasn't paralized, but he did have to wear a halo the rest of the summer.

The very next summer, he found a tumor in his neck... it was Hodgkins. He survived that, too... after a summer filled with chemo and radiation treatments.

Needless to say, he's 39 but has the body of a 60 year old now.