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Throwing cars...
LordDresden:
--- Quote from: dornwolf on November 11, 2009, 08:17:39 PM ---Well look at the plus side the blasted the marriage away so no more worries there. (Yes I'm a little pissed at that)
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You're not the only one. Quesada made a lot of enemies with that, both for doing it and for how it was done. It's turned up over on tvtropes.org repeatedly.
LordDresden:
--- Quote from: Blaze on October 17, 2009, 11:49:13 PM ---
I can't watch my husband and sons in SCA combat. (Especially the sons, because I want to grab a broom and shoo the bad people trying to hit my Babies!)
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A coworker of mine was relieved that her daughter (now about 18) didn't want to be a cheerleader. She (the daughter) is short and slender so she'd be the one the other girls tossed in the air and caught. The mother said she was sure it would give her an ulcer to watch them throw her daughter up in the air the way they do the smallest girls.
(In actual fact, cheerleading has one of the highest injury rates of any athletic activity among teens, IIANM it's higher than tackle football.)
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: SteaksandNewBoots on October 17, 2009, 09:53:23 PM ---Makes me think super heros should only date other super heros. A. They live a similar lifestyle. B. It is harder to accidentally hurt them. C. You don't have to worry about super villains using them against you as much.
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But you do have to worry about all the extra danger they run in their own title.
Blaze:
--- Quote from: LordDresden on November 30, 2009, 03:27:50 AM ---A coworker of mine was relieved that her daughter (now about 18) didn't want to be a cheerleader. She (the daughter) is short and slender so she'd be the one the other girls tossed in the air and caught. The mother said she was sure it would give her an ulcer to watch them throw her daughter up in the air the way they do the smallest girls.
(In actual fact, cheerleading has one of the highest injury rates of any athletic activity among teens, IIANM it's higher than tackle football.)
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SCA combat is VERY VERY safe. No one has ever sustained a serious injury doing SCA combat (caused by the combat, at least -- some people get heat stroke, but not for lack of Chirurgeons and Water Carriers shouting at them to stop before they overheat.)
jtaylor:
--- Quote from: Blaze on December 08, 2009, 10:13:10 PM ---SCA combat is VERY VERY safe. No one has ever sustained a serious injury doing SCA combat (caused by the combat, at least -- some people get heat stroke, but not for lack of Chirurgeons and Water Carriers shouting at them to stop before they overheat.)
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While it is true that no one has suffered life-threatening injury in SCA combat, I know several people how have broken arms or ankles in Heavy combat. Duke Gaston broke his arm when a shot hit his vambrace, and I know of another gentle who broke a leg falling off a ramp storming the castle at Gulf War.
I hate to worry a mother more, but there IS risk of injury in heavy combat, which is why you have to have a signed waiver on record before you can be authorized.
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