I'm happy to see the concept of male only sports dying off.

At the same time it's sad, after all we know about the long term effects of repeated concussions, to see adults encouraging teenagers to slowly give each other brain damage.

I know it's traditional and fun, but burying your head in the sand over this reality is a failure as a parent or teacher. Also, just another terrible idea about what to do with your head.

Van Vleuten was in intensive care after suffering a severe concussion and three small fractures in her lower back. Not being a doctor that sounds pretty bad, but her tweets say she is fine and hoping to get out of the hospital today.
https://twitter.com/AvVleuten

And now i feel i can upvote the video comfortably, knowing she's okay. What a horrible crash.

Ya, concussions are funny!

Not necessarily. It'd be pretty badly designed if the door to my bathroom opened both ways, because if someone left the bathroom at the same time as someone walked past, they'd be in line for a concussion. Same for most doors that connect to thoroughfares. There's plenty of good reasons to have certain doors opening just one way.

That wasn't snow, more like ice or at the very least compacted snow. We have lot of "Danger Falling Ice" signs around the cities of Canada. Russia has the same issue, its just that they don't warn anyone... surprise! you have a concussion now!

Bit stupid really, there could have been a lingering concussion made much worse with another tumble.

It's not only the sting of the slap, it's the raw concussive force of a large surface area (ie. nape to ass) meeting strong surface tension. The best way to land is to break the surface tension with the smallest area possible (ie. fingertips, toes etc) allowing the body to slide in to the water.

I've played airsoft like this for a few years now off an on so feel well enough qualified to comment.

It's largely a matter of range. Most sites allow up to 500fps on snipers (and some american ones go up to 800 or so I believe), but they have a minimum engagement range (usually about 25 meters, presumably more for the silly american ones).

Basically, non automatic sniper rifles are allowed to be significantly more powerful than the 330fps (400 in some countries) other weapons are limited to, but as a result can't be used at short range (that's what pistols and compact SMG's are for!).

If you are close to the minimum range limit and it hits unprotected skin, they sting really badly, enough to draw a little blood sometimes. It's not entirely dissimilar to being whipped by a wet towel, excruciating for about half a second then it tails off to just stinging and swearing.

If it hits your vest, glasses, hat etc. then it wont really hurt at all (but you still felt it you cheating bastards! ), likewise if you are out beyond 50meters or so as the power drops off with range as you'd expect. (My brother can sometimes make shots out to 70-80meters with a VSR but you can barely feel it)

Shoot at point blank and your target can be forgiven for walking over and punching you in the face....right after they stop swearing and get up off the ground. (entirely possible to penetrate exposed skin at that range)

In practice though, trying to storm a building/room vs automatic rifles etc. tends to be far more painful an experience than being sniped. Unless that is someone snipes the inside of your nose sideways on (it hurt as much as you imagine it did).

We also once had a guy knocked clean out by a grenade launcher to the face at point blank . But it was a Co2 powered thing and I believe they aren't allowed inside buildings any more (can't think why).

Re: paintballs, in my much more limited experience, they are waaaaay worse than BB's if they are full power and reasonably close range. Concussions, broken bones and broken skin are all entirely possible (though not likely), but bruises and welts are basically standard issue.

I believe some sites run compressed air guns (rather than Co2) at much lower power levels, so I imagine they are a lot more tolerable.
Paintballers tend to be more on the extreme sports side of things (wheras airsoft tends to be more biased towards military geeks/gamers), and so many sites have a bit of a "pain is weakness leaving the body" attitude to power levels.

In the UK at least the velocity limit for paintballs at competition level is 300fps, for most airsoft sites the limit is 330fps. You only have to look at a BB vs a paintball to see what a discrepancy in energy that equates to!!!

Yeah, lol, but I figured it's easier to sell with Coochie as the title.

Thanks for the NSFW, but like the Sarcasm button I don't require it's use and leave it to others to flag at their discretion.

I have no desire to pad the walls of anyone's cell, even if it's to prevent social concussions. I say enjoy the head trauma. This world is gonna be a bumpy riiide!!

and if the drugs don't get you, the concussions will.

Junior Seau put the gun to his heart, rather than his head, because he wanted to make sure the autopsy revealed what he already knew.

Did you fall down the stairs and hit your head? Are you OK?

I hope so. Though a concussion is really the only explanation for the nonsense you just wrote. Maybe you should get that checked.

It's really hard to say about long lasting damage, it was only one of over a dozen concussions he had before he turned 18.
No, no one was caught. When he woke on the sidewalk, they were gone.

Wow, that's an odd targeting of your friend.
Did he marry an Asian woman BECUASE he's ginger? Southpark taught us that that's the best way to ensure your children aren't ginger. ;-)

You can still get a concussion from an impact like this... I would always send someone to A&E / ER after something like this. But I'd rather have concussion that have the back of my head cracked like a boiled egg.

That's nuts. Wonder how many concussions, or various other injuries, were doled out that day.