Painful power clean fail today...

[Braindrop]

First rep of first set today, 170# bounced back into my shin, knocking me on my ass.

Yes, I finished the workout.

[MazdaMatt]

How the fuck does it bounce back into your shin?

[Ian Kovtunovich]

Awesome! I was doing PCs at 160 last night, and on a whim, decided to lower one rep to my waist, and then to the floor. It didn't quite work out, and as the bar dropped to waist level, I lost my grip on it, since I had released the hook grip to rack it. Being an Oly bar, it was more than happy to rotate quickly, rolling down my fingers, hitting my shins, and rolling the rest of the way to the ground along my shins. I have sweet bruises now, and probably one of the top three dumb things I have done with a barbell in my training carreer.

I think you win it with that gash there; that is gnarls.

[Braindrop]

How the fuck does it bounce back into your shin?

It's curious you should say that, because that was my initial thought as well.

In answer, I have no fucking clue. I'm considering it the gym equivalent of a rogue wave...

I'm just glad it didn't bounce about 4" higher, because that's my bad knee.

[gzt]

Hate it when it bounces back. Haven't had that big of a gash, though.

Mazda: not quite level ground, imperfections, that kind of thing.

[John2336]

Nice gash man! Anyone else ever (somehow) slammed the shit out of their nutsack on the way up?

[MazdaMatt]

Nice gash man! Anyone else ever (somehow) slammed the shit out of their nutsack on the way up?

Got the twig, spared the berries (though they were quite jostled). No fun.

[Braindrop]

At the risk of TMI, I have a couple of pair of tight undies that I simply can't wear on deadlift day for that very reason