yup, painful

much worse imo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRYLeXZYv_s

I actually saw a judge get hit in the head with a hammer (bout 200' throw) during Regionals. Definitely the worst thing I've ever seen. I'd have to say the sound was far worse than I had imagined it would sound.

those hammers are what? ~22lbs?

he didn't die??



16lbs for 19-49 year-old males

This post was edited by bnrhodes2 on Nov 8 2009 07:30pm

16 lbs. The Celtic games are 22 and 54 or something like that. And yes hodes, he did die. There have been a lot of deaths having to do with hammer, javelin and shot in the past few years.

thats horrible...i figured there would be injuries from hammer and javelin but i haven't ever heard of any from shot...i've never actually heard about deaths though, but i've seen videos of ppl being hit by a javelin

Look up Patrick Whalen from Ohio State. He graduated last year and killed a 77 year old judge with a shot when he was a RS. He was an awesome kid but you could definitely tell he had a chip on his shoulder when he threw or was near a ring.

so the ezpk didn't feel so gz?

lol, I definitely think he's a lil messed up psychologically from it.