[Other Sport] Surprisingly dangerous sports

[PTC Gull]

Fishing isn’t in the sports area but was in the dangerous pastimes. Not a Sussex pond/river type fishing but coastal sea fishing - getting washed out to sea appears to be the danger or maybe it was catching too big a fish!

When I first read this I saw ‘fisting’ And if you keep reading with that in mind it’s quite amusing

 

[Change at Barnham]

I believe squash balls have caused a lot of eye injuries.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Ski jumping / ski flying is perhaps in the opposite category... "surprisingly safe sports". Sure looks dangerous though, whenever I watch it (... not that often) I wonder how they are not all dead, you would imagine that if they are doing this shit 20 times a day in training they would **** up and die to death at some point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPs3HbfR5dE

Pole vaulting. I don't even know how you start to PRACTICE that without it being potentially lethal.

Yep, there are some sports where I don't even know how you'd start practicing. Ski jump is one, pole vault another. Speedway, given the lack of brakes is a third and those Red Bull air races are a fourth.

 

[Birdie Boy]

Why on earth would you only do this to tie! Why not go an extra foot!

Not a dive for me, he went in feet first! Not that I would do it.

 

[elwheelio]

I believe squash balls have caused a lot of eye injuries.

And squashed balls.

 

[banjo]

Don't try this at home.
https://youtu.be/ZDqN8sEl6oE

4.5 that blokes lucky he didn’t go over to him a kick him in the nuts for that score.

 

[schmunk]

When applying for life insurance, I was asked if I did any dangerous pastimes, I replied yes I go gliding, the man looked through his list. No thats quite safe. I also said I played golf, cue sharp intake of breath. Evidently quite dangerous.

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Your life's at risk when she finds out how much you spent on that broom handle putter...

 

[zefarelly]

Bouncy castle's. Not exactly a sport but there have been some terrible life changing injuries on them.

My next door neighbour leapt on one, broke his own sons leg.

 

[Baker lite]

Golf has to up there? Having been struck by balls several times and had a few whistle past my lughole, lighting strikes are also a danger on the course...


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[Herr Tubthumper]

Golf has to up there? Having been struck by balls several times and had a few whistle past my lughole, lighting strikes are also a danger on the course...


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Do you play a lot of golf?

 

[Baker lite]

Do you play a lot of golf?

Not as much as I’d like,been particularly busy with work this last year. At my best played off 15, now play off about 20..


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[Marty McFly]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwUxaUc1q_0

Curling. Look at the guy, almost died.

As an aside, Gushue (on the other team) used to be my landlord!

 

[spongy]

Probably the most unsurprising dangerous sport.......

Not for the faint hearted....

https://youtu.be/eY89WmecbkM
https://youtu.be/PZ295luzhtQ

 

[vegster]

I think that anyone who jumps regularly off a building or off a cliff or out of a perfectly working aeroplane with parachutes or even more suicidal " Wing Suits " is storing up a whole lot of bad luck. And sadly, I have no sympathy for them.

 

[m20gull]

I would like to back up your theory by saying that my Grandad did indeed die of a heart attack whilst playing Crown Green Bowling at Southborough Bowls Club Tunbridge Wells.

And to back it up further, although it is not exactly the same sport, my dad died of a heart attack at Arundel playing flat green bowls.

 

[Dorset Seagull]

Don't try this at home.
https://youtu.be/ZDqN8sEl6oE

Why would you do that to TIE the world record and not go up another 1” to beat the world record

 

[vegster]

I believe squash balls have caused a lot of eye injuries.

I believe that a squash ball is slightly smaller than the orbit of the eye socket , ergo, hit full in the eye by a Tennis ball or Cricket ball you will usually keep your sight... but a Squash ball is a squisher.

 

[Swansman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nNxkNiOODM

Bandy keeper in the 90s before they moved to bigger gloves must have been ****ing painful and dangerous. Ball is nearly impossible to see, hard as hell, cold, the shots came in 160 km/h.

Another one: gymnastics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icAWSydFp-c

Lots and lots and lots of broken necks over the years.

 

[drew]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nNxkNiOODM

Bandy keeper in the 90s before they moved to bigger gloves must have been ****ing painful and dangerous. Ball is nearly impossible to see, hard as hell, cold, the shots came in 160 km/h.

Another one: gymnastics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icAWSydFp-c

Lots and lots and lots of broken necks over the years.

Although I'm guessing this hurt, it has me in fits. Action starts at 1 minute.

 

[drew]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned football as we all recall Billy Sharp's fatality following an innocuous tackle by Dunk in the Amex curtain raiser.