nay
"If you get hurt its your own fault"
Nay. See rule #1.
Depends.
No. Most of the time if I get hurt it's not me it's somebody else's dumb ass doing something stupid like a newbie mallet dragging, or high sticking, or posting up a moving pick right in front of me next to the fence when I'm going full speed leaving me not enough breaking room and them with a tacoed rear wheel. None the less I don't get hurt much.
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no
True enough i guess it depends... but mostly i see that nah is the winner in this post.
first things first - you've made the personal decision to ride around on a bicycle, swinging sticks made of metal and hard plastic at one another trying to hit a very hard ball very fast. regardless of how much safety equipment you wear or how good you are at controlling your bike or how whatever happened was the other person's fault, you're putting yourself in a dangerous situation.
so, yes, if you get hurt, it's ultimately your own fault.
Hold up Jayzen, you are the dick of the year if I'm not mitaken. If I get hurt it's probably your falt.
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Almost never, especially not when some dumbass leaves the lacrosse box door open,( assuming you are going to use it to enter the joust, as yuo are last man in) , when EVERYOnE else knows that Nylon fauxHawked Gauchos and their ZOmbie Steel Steeds (thanx emerson) do not use normal portals. The result being a concrete mattress face plant with a a shin splitting T bone on the top rail on the way down.My own fault......I think not ;-). MACHINE "so this is how it ends
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My story begins last winter during indoor polo, we were playing in a gymnasium. The one end behind the net their was a chalk board. The ball was hit to that end corner and bounced out just abit that was my net. I came back to get the ball clubbed it, started to make my way around the back of net looking around to see if anyone was coming. I came close to the wall while turning behind the net. The alloy ledge where chalk is placed had cut my arm open as I passed by too close. Blood gushed out. Was this my fault? I believe it was I hurt myself by not paying attention and noting the alloy ledge. I must say all my injury’s from bike polo were due not cause of other people but because of myself.
gnarly crazy!
I've seen injuries happen where it was the player's own fault and injuries where it is someone getting hit by a mallet or hurt during play.
It's crazy how we can play at a court and be aware of the dangers and somewhere in the hecticness we can forget about things like the chalk ledge or a jagged wall or the proximity of other players.
I would think the majority of seasoned players would say it is probably your own fault. Unless someone is being a dick, or is pretty much new.
this isnt really a yes or no question. creating a topic that demands a black and white answer to a complex situation is stupid.
it comes off as petty. we have no idea what the situation your trying to validate is (assuming your are asking about something other that you not paying attention to where your riding, or playing polo on a court that can open you up like you got done), but please get your vindication another way.
and why the fuck did you post a paragraph answer to your own post when you made up the y/n rule
Yeah realize after i wrote this post a yes or no answer wouldn't cut it for some & had to improvise. It's alright though & if i should write another post i will think more before it is set down.
I know who wants to come to Winnipeg but if any of you are riding by we managed to find a warehouse for indoor bike polo this winter. Only thing is their are pillars in the playing area. Well its definitley better than no play at all.
mke has a court that they have been playing on for years with a few pillars. if it works it works
yeah pillars are gnarly, i ran into a 4 foot one a couple weeks ago
the mallet head hit first then the shaft was aimed at my junk
the collision broke the rather new mallet and left me with a bruise
like an inch away, so watch where you are going!
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this isnt really a yes or no question. creating a topic that demands a black and white answer to a complex situation is stupid.
it comes off as petty. we have no idea what the situation your trying to validate is (assuming your are asking about something other that you not paying attention to where your riding, or playing polo on a court that can open you up like you got done), but please get your vindication another way.
and why the fuck did you post a paragraph answer to your own post when you made up the y/n rule
Are you taking message boards seriously enough?
:Edmonton/East Van Bike Polo:
Apparently not or else i wouldn't of clipped it, but like i said, "if i should write another post i will think more before it is set down."
I wouldn't worry about it. The topic didn't bother me like it did some other.
:Edmonton/East Van Bike Polo:
So, the gist I'm getting out of this thread is that the more experienced (see better) players feel that injuries aren't their fault. The newbies tend to cause most of the accidents and need to be taught how not to do so. The ones that continue to wreck and fuck shit up once they become more experienced need to remember rule number one or get the hell out of the sport.
Fair enough. Better interpretation, but I still see the need for the more experienced players to explain how to avoid these situations to the newer players. And the new players need to listen to the more experienced people so they don't fuck up themselves or other players.
sounds like you had a point, and just choose to say that instead of reading the post.
the fact is it is a easy answer, and it is a yes or no answer. yes, if you get hurt its your fault. but you can lay blame elsewhere, and sometimes thats justified, the fact is you get on your bike and you ride into a crazy ass sport, where lots of people get hurt.
older more experienced players cant teach young player what it takes not to get hurt or to hurt. thats the whole idea behind experience. sure you can tell someone to play within their ability but, who wants to do that.
Depends on how you get hurt...
There's 'other players' & there's unsafe equipment/courts etc.
After a newbie bike eating accident last week, we decided to make more permanent repairs to the grill in the corner of our court. (Hopefully they won't be removed by the school in February.)
Here's some photos of the repairs we made yesterday. http://www.flickr.com/photos/urbanbicyclist/tags/grate/
I've had plenty that were my own fault, but it is the unaware newbie that seems to always catch me by surprise. They float out on the court and lurch with no regard to the person sprinting with the ball.
Be alert, the world needs more lerts.
BRINGING THE RUCKUS
YES.
I love anyone playing. The more, the better. But Podz' homeboy one time was on a road bike and I had the ball, my head was down, and dude was just basically trackstanding or something and here I come, all 260 pounds on a mountain bike and the dude does NOT move, I hit his back wheel, go up on it like it was a ramp, and over and wipe out.
Isn't that called t-boning? Shouldn't you look where you're going?
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no one has to get out of your way because you're steam rolling, you need to move around people not through them.
everyone has a right to a position, especially if they have been occupying it longer than you have.
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Dude saw me, dude floated into the way, even if I looked up and saw him, I alone at least would have spilled. I would have felt like crap if I messed up his wheel but not obligated to really do anything about it.
even if I looked up...
Your fault.
MMMMMBOP
aight even if it is I don't give a shit.
You obviously do give a shit and that is why you have thrust yourself into this debate. It worries me that there are people out there like you who have the attitude that they don't give a shit if they ram into other players willy nilly. I'll tell you who does give a shit: all the victims you ram. If this shit happened at any tournament worth it's salt you would be penalized or not allowed to play. Count it.
MMMMMBOP
x2, just because you have the ball doesn't give you any magical path to the net. blocking a player's line is pretty integral to the game. ANY crashing you do with your front wheel is t-boning.
more kenball played by more people in more places more often
If you get hurt and get mad it's your own fault.
This thread is pretty dumb.
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no. Sometimes it's both parties.
we had someone break a couple of ribs the other day in a collision with another player.
Who's fault was it?
It was everyone's. we were playing 5 on 5 on a basketball court and too stupid, overzealous, eager, and anxious to acknowledge that this is akin to a busy airport with no ATC.
"Permission to t-bone into your ribs?"
"Granted"
BLAOW!!!
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looks like Christine II claimed her first victim with an ear splitting shoulder separation that has put her new nylon faux hawked gaucho into marioland for a painstaking 6 weeks, thus leaving the lacrosse box door wide open for placings as biggest drama queen in LA next weekend.MY FAULT..........yeah but only coz i used possessed parts from christine lives instead of melting them down and giving them concrete boots and a bed with the fishies
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