Was perusing the BBC website’s wimbledon coverage when I came across this:
Marc Gicquel was hit in the, er, groin by a Jarkko Nieminen serve in Halle two weeks ago and, as you can see from the picture, did not enjoy the experience. He got back up to win but had to retire from his next match suffering the after-effects.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tennis/6243576.stm
The best part…he’s French ha ha
Our local news reported that the serve was around 160kms / 100miles /hour!
ouch!!
What gets me is he finished that match but not the next one which was presumably the next day…getting hit hard enough there that it takes you out the next day is too painful to contemplate 
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I’ve taken a cricket ball in the nuts at probably less than half that speed and that is enough for me!!
SAT question:
Achilles:heel as Marc Gicquel:_____________
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LOL!
Next question: why is the other guy performing the heimlich maneuver after a blow to the plums? Are they stuck in his throat?
You only do Heimlichs on someone’s upper chest if they are pregnant… so…???
I think the appropriate SAT question would be:
In a haiku, explain why the other guy is performing the heimlich maneuver after a blow to the plums.
I didnt think it was possible to hit a frenchman in the bozak
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I have seen this maneuver done in baseball too. I’ve seen more than one first baseman take a one hopper (either hit or thrown) to the sac. Somebody gets behind them, lifts them slightly off the ground and drops then gently. I don’t know if it’s an urban legend, wive’s tale, or bonafide procedure … but suppossedly it helps.
Even though you wear “cups” in baseball … everyone knows that sound when take one square in the cup. even with the protection, it still scrambles the eggs. There is simply nothing like the light-headed, can’t breath, sensation that comes from getting drilled in the nuts.
In a haiku, explain why the other guy is performing the heimlich maneuver after a blow to the plums.
An egregious shot
necessitates assistance
to descend the plums
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I had something almost just as bad on my bike. I was at a stoplight and it turned green. I took off and I thought I was clipped into my pedals. Well, I wasn’t and my foot slipped off on a down stroke. Pretty much the majority of my weight went down onto the the pointy end of the saddle. It didn’t hit my nuts, but square in the taint. About 5 seconds later, I was in PAIN. I was seeing spots, I got light headed, and I felt like I was going to puke. I quickly pulled over and laid down in a parking lot somewhere because I COULD NOT stand up straight. I thought I was going to puke and pass out. OMFG did that ever hurt. I sat there for about 15 minutes before I could get back on the bike again.
Congrats, that’s an 800 on the verbal section for you.
I can’t come up with any math questions about this though…
Wouldn’t it sort of be like the how do you split three apples among five kids?
Make applesauce!
Fair ball, fouly hit,
tender plums most sorely dinged.
A gentle lift soothes?
Well, I was trying to think of a math question that related to this photo…
Did we just unleash your haiku fetish?
100mi isn’t particularly fast actually.
That said…the speed is taken less than 1m after impact (with the racket). The ball doesn’t arrive anywhere near that fast.
I learned that drop technique when I was in the martial arts. Basically the effect of the drop and gravity is supposed to get the diaphragm moving again. Never saw it for a hard kick to the cojones, but it was pretty successful if you got hit hard in the solar plexus and the diaphragm was essentially spasmed.
Yeah, I am not sure where that is coming from as I have never and could never write any kind of poetry before in my life. Particularly in high school when required.
Yet, there is something about ST threads with all the additional posts from left field, which makes absolutely perfect grist for churning out bad haikus. It almost seems like a natural source of material purposely bred for haiku.
Maybe it is time I see a shrink?
Are you calling Lazy Ben your muse?
Based on this, it sounds like you’d like to write the SAT math question that we need…
Question: assume that a tennis player hits a tennis ball with his racket at speed s. The pressure of the ball is p. The surface is grass and the player is 6’4’‘. To simplify, we assume that there is no effect given to the ball.
Assume that the grass was water at 8am and the serve is measured at 2.30pm. The opponent is 6’2’’ and receives with his feet 3 feet apart, 4ft behind the baseline. Given normal atmospheric conditions, what is the speed needed for the ball to chop off the receiver’s right testicle?