Have you ever punched a perfectly good wall?

[BillyVance 34]

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I went three rounds with a locker room once. Had just gotten thrown out of an important hockey game (I'm the GOALIE. Do you realise how hard it is to get a game ejection as a goalie?), and decided to vent my rage. End tally was 4 or 5 holes in the wall, a bunch of dented lockers, and an impressively swollen, but not broken, hand.

I used to have anger issues when I was younger

So did I... I'll have to show you my fists. My right fist is noticably bigger and more scarred than the left.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[lawrocket 3]

I used to take out my frustrations on walls. In the rec room at my dorm were my knuckle marks and dents on a wall by the pool table. It was solid wood.

The only bad effect I siffered is a large calcium deposit on the knuckle of the bird finger. I never suffered the boxer's fracture or anything like that (I had learned how to punch safely).

I also learned not to EVER punch drywall. Either it would be destroyed by putting my hand right through it (I dont' want to destroy anything, just let out some aggression), or I would risk injury by contacting or grazing a wall stud (I reckon grazing a stud would jack you up but good). You really must be careful about the types of walls you punch. Hell, a few years ago I could punch a concrete wall without injury.

I don't do that any more. I have learned that while may not be mightier than the sword, the pen is mightier than the fist. You can gouge eyes out and make puncture wounds with pens.

My wife is hotter than your wife.

[porterhouse 0]

Rather than focusing on the tragedy of this incident, shouldn't we instead be focusing on what we can learn from it, so that we can reduce the chances of it happening to another jumper in the future? Can you provide more details? What was the weight loading on the wall? What kind of wall attacked the un-named jumper? Was it plaster, wood, or wall-board. Each has different fighting characteristics, and each will respond differently when puched. How experienced was the jumper at fighting walls? Was he trying to fight a wall that was too agressive for his skill level? Were there any other circumstances that might have helped avoid this situation?

(please, do not take me seriously....no one else does.)

[peregrinerose 0]

Funny follow up to this story... saw the doc today, who said splint for at elast 3 weeks full time. We asked when no name jumper can jump again. Doc looks a little puzzled, but the decides that it would be okay for him to jump, he didn't think the splint would get in the way. Ummm okay, he can't pull, can't cutaway, and can only make left turns, why the hell not jump?

At least he wasn't one of those 'why the hell would you do that to begin with' docs

NoName Jumper loved the posts by the way.

He does concur that the wall was far too aggressive for his skill level. A 1 punch wonder should not be attempting such a maneuver under any circumstances. A punch control course could have improved his maneuverability in the situation and the hard landing of fist on wall would have been avoided completely. Perhaps a PLF would have also decreased the severity of the wound.

This just goes to show that any incident is a chain reaction of mistakes that can lead to injury. Other jumpers would do well to learn from this tragedy and at least have a USPA (United Stationary-object Punching Association) A license prior to avoid over reaching skill levels.

Do or do not, there is no try -Yoda

[VectorBoy 0]

only when the drywaller wasn't looking! Electrician's joke sorry.

[AggieDave 6]

I used a backleg roundhouse on a brick wall once in a fit of anger (ok, I was a freshmen in highschool). Thank god I kicked it right, since I kicked it as hard as I could. All I suffered was a stress fracture in one bone of my foot from the compression. If I had done it wrong it would have shattered my foot. That foot will hurt when the weather changes to this day, well over a decade later.

All though the wall obviously felt the pain, it was able to suck it up and keep on going like nothing had happened. Needless to say I've grown up a lot since then and don't fall into loosing my temper like that anymore.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[sunshine 2]

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