[quote]cavalier wrote:
“Another fatality”?? How many people die in these things, anyway? I always thought they were safe.[/quote]
Safe is relative, we have somebody die every few years or so. The battles are very stressful and lots of time people don’t get any other sort of exercise other than fighting so you see heart issues, over heating, lots of blunt force trauma of course.
You do see a lot of broken limbs, knee injuries, concussion etc.
Dying in a fake battle seems rather…ironic somehow. However, I’m glad you are like alive and kicking albeit a bit discolored in places.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]cavalier wrote:
“Another fatality”?? How many people die in these things, anyway? I always thought they were safe.[/quote]
Safe is relative, we have somebody die every few years or so. The battles are very stressful and lots of time people don’t get any other sort of exercise other than fighting so you see heart issues, over heating, lots of blunt force trauma of course.
You do see a lot of broken limbs, knee injuries, concussion etc.[/quote]
Are you SERIOUS???. And I thought heavy lifting was borderline abusive to ones self.
[quote]bulldog9899 wrote:
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]cavalier wrote:
“Another fatality”?? How many people die in these things, anyway? I always thought they were safe.[/quote]
Safe is relative, we have somebody die every few years or so. The battles are very stressful and lots of time people don’t get any other sort of exercise other than fighting so you see heart issues, over heating, lots of blunt force trauma of course.
You do see a lot of broken limbs, knee injuries, concussion etc.[/quote]
Are you SERIOUS???. And I thought heavy lifting was borderline abusive to ones self.[/quote]
Yeah it can get bad at time. One on one fighting is relatively safeish. Though there are injuries they happen less frenquently than wars where you have hundreds of people basically clubing each other into submission. The armor helps a lot though
Injuries I’ve had over the years:
torn ACL
cracked ribs x4
cracked orbital socket
nose broken x6
half a dozen concussions of various levels
3-4 cuts needing stiches
numerous broken fingers etc…
this is in addition to the countless bruising…
Love the pic of you! You look so focused.
OMG Joe! I freaking love it!! That looks like so much fun! And I know its not the same, but I always wanted to go to a renaissance fair all decked out a-la Maid Meriam. There’s something very awesome about gnawing on a giant Turkey leg while watching a good joust.
[quote]Mascherano wrote:
OMG Joe! I freaking love it!! That looks like so much fun! And I know its not the same, but I always wanted to go to a renaissance fair all decked out a-la Maid Meriam. There’s something very awesome about gnawing on a giant Turkey leg while watching a good joust.[/quote]
You should totally do it.
I’ve been in a few wench carrying contests.
With luck I’ll post some videos of the fighting when they start popping up on the web.
joe sounds like a crazy weekend.
how do you guys handle a fatality-
do you prop them up in their car and leave,
im kidding but it must kind of kill off the event
[quote]kmcnyc wrote:
joe sounds like a crazy weekend.
how do you guys handle a fatality-
do you prop them up in their car and leave,
im kidding but it must kind of kill off the event[/quote]
Most of the time they are in the ambulance when they go. Our insurance requires we have an ambulance standing by 24/7. Also most of the time most people never know about it because there are 4-6 thousand people there.
The first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club!
Sounds like fun to watch!
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]bulldog9899 wrote:
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
[quote]cavalier wrote:
“Another fatality”?? How many people die in these things, anyway? I always thought they were safe.[/quote]
Safe is relative, we have somebody die every few years or so. The battles are very stressful and lots of time people don’t get any other sort of exercise other than fighting so you see heart issues, over heating, lots of blunt force trauma of course.
You do see a lot of broken limbs, knee injuries, concussion etc.[/quote]
Are you SERIOUS???. And I thought heavy lifting was borderline abusive to ones self.[/quote]
Yeah it can get bad at time. One on one fighting is relatively safeish. Though there are injuries they happen less frenquently than wars where you have hundreds of people basically clubing each other into submission. The armor helps a lot though
Injuries I’ve had over the years:
torn ACL
cracked ribs x4
cracked orbital socket
nose broken x6
half a dozen concussions of various levels
3-4 cuts needing stiches
numerous broken fingers etc…
this is in addition to the countless bruising…
[/quote]
Gagg! Joe, you really ought to hire a stunt double.
Wave 3-Cycle 2-Week 3 day 1
Dips
8x45
8x90
3x135
CGB
8x135
8x185
4x205
1x225
V-bar pull downs
12x150
12x160
12x180
9x200 (+1 rep PR)
BB Shrugs
12x135
12x226
12x315* add straps
10x335 (+2 rep)
DB Shoulder Press
10x55 (+1 rep)
8x60
6x65
Bicep started to burn on heavy dips so I shut it down. Good think next week is a deload.
3x135
Is that bruise going to keep you from squatting for a bit? Although nowhere near as elaborate as what you do, back in grad school I played full tackle football every weekend with some of the guys from the weightroom. I had to quit after a couple months because it was getting to the point where it took almost a week to recover from all the bruises–just in time to do it again. Really cut into my training time.
Good solid training as usual.
[quote]Carl Darby wrote:
Is that bruise going to keep you from squatting for a bit? Although nowhere near as elaborate as what you do, back in grad school I played full tackle football every weekend with some of the guys from the weightroom. I had to quit after a couple months because it was getting to the point where it took almost a week to recover from all the bruises–just in time to do it again. Really cut into my training time.
Good solid training as usual.[/quote]
Nah Carl, its not sore really, so I should be golden for squatting by Friday.
Yeah Joe! rockin the weighted dips, man I miss them…they hurt like hell now. good stuff bro
Video from the war. Too much spear fencing so its not really an impactful as it might be. Small battle too.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
Video from the war. Too much spear fencing so its not really an impactful as it might be. Small battle too.
I don’t understand…are you guys actually trying to hurt each other. I imagine that some take it more serious than others. How many real fights break out? Very interesting…I’ve never seen anything like that.
Get yourself a horse Joe. You’d kick ass. (or arse as I would say)
Are horses allowed?
How do you decide who dies? Is there a scoring system or do you just retreat when you’re too injured to carry on?
