Posted on 04/20/2005 1:14:46 PM PDT by the_devils_advocate_666
KALAMA, Wash. -- A javelin impaled a 12th-grader during track practice at a South Sound school on Monday, one of two incidents that left students hurt, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported.
One of Dodson's friends snapped a photo of the javelin impaling him, but Dodson says that he was in shock and he did not feel any pain.
"[It]felt weird and exciting at the same time," said Dodson.
His friends were shocked and worried.
"It's not fun to see one of your friends on the ground with a javelin through his chest," said Brent Hopkins, student.
Minutes later, a seventh-grader was hit in the head by a shot put. The athlete was running out to retrieve his shot put and someone threw another one, striking him in the head.
Both students were taken to a hospital and will be OK.
There were coaches supervising the practice when both incidents occurred.
Pretty much!
The King's crown is also a bit of an oddity in this weird world I thought up.
Part of you stays in it, no matter how long or short you wore it.
So anyone wearing it after you can hear whispers of you while wearing it.
And it changes it's appearance from bearer to bearer.
Well, that's a new idea! Would seem to lend itself to espionage purposes: market it to political figures as a "trendy" hat, then steal it (perhaps replacing it with a duplicate so the theft goes unnoticed and the scheme can be perpetuated indefinitely) and find out what they were thinking.
Actually I remembered this from an article by an olympic thrower, I always thought it was neat. The order is how you would naturally think as you compete. I suppose if you ran one throw someone, that would mean it did not hit tip down, hence no throw.
Many throwers try for maximum distance and throw a level flight. If the tip does not make a mark, you don't get to count the throw.
Finally, one should note that the way most javelin throwers are injured is running out to retrieve a thrown javelin which is stuck in the ground and angled up at about 30 degrees. The tail of the javelin is sharper than the tip and harder to see. The tip is painted a bright color, as in the picture but the tail is usually not painted, Just the same color as the body.
Well, I can safely say that Mr. Kelly has nothing to fear from me as far as going after his record and fame.
The inverse of it is that whoever wears the thing next is instantly brought to the awareness of those who've worn it before, whether or not they are corporeal.
Seems these weirdo people I thought up, they have this gift that the Eternal gave them.
They can do stuff like throw lightning, rend matter, levitate things, read minds, near god like things.
And, when they die, they wander as ghosts.
(Abilene the Seer, nice lady. Has a habit of deciding to drop by unannounced while you're taking a bath.. by walking through the wall and sitting down on an expedient chair, not that she has to sit down at all.)
So the place is kinda.. odd to write about.
ROFL!
You sure this wasn't a South Park episode?
No wonder she's called "the Seer"! :-)
Sounds like a pretty unique world you've invented there. You should develop that.
Now it has been around 33 years since I threw a javelin in competition but the point is definitely sharper than the tail, or used to be.
The part about the tip having to break ground to count is also correct.
I threw when "Dick Held" type Javelins were used. They had a large diameter tip which could have had a very sharp point but it tapered out quickly to the larger diameter body. Like a target arrow. The tail was also very sharp, but the taper was from tail all the way to grip. Thus the higher danger (not from the sharpness but the difficulty seeing exactly where it was). I used to combine some running with throwing, and would sprint out to the javelin to pick it up. Add a little "mind somewhere else" and I came very close sometimes to catching my hand or arm on the d*mn thing. I am still nursing "javelin elbow" from some strain due to mis angled throws. It has been longer for me, class or '67.
In fact yarddog, it looks in the picture more like the aft end of the shaft has caught our high school student. (Definitely not in competition). Maybe he walked into it, it would explain the angle at the shoulder.
I was at a high school track meet yesterday. Here in NJ, girls and boys throw the jav. And, at the girls shot put event, one girl waiting almost got hit with a badly-put shot but it luckily glanced off her umbrella.
Yes that is a good description of the shape, except it did not taper quite as bluntly as a target arrow. I remember sometimes you could get that tail whipping and it seemed to help it go, although aerodynamically I doubt if it really helped.
As I said, I was not that good. I think my best was only around 180 feet. It was just a sideline with me anyway. I threw the 16 pound shot around 44 ft. and the discus 136' and just like the javelin, I was good enough to place every now and then in weak competition but never win.
Sprints and hurdles were my real event. I could have probably been a good decathlete except I was just plain bad in the distance events.
Cool,
I had a few throws out to 215 feet, but the school (Berkeley- I know but I was a liberal then too) had a scholarship thrower who consistantly threw 230. So I almost never placed in meets. I was a good discus thrower in high school (165') but did not grow enough for college discus. at 5' 10" I looked like the team manager around the discus ring plus the discus was heavier(2 kg). I too ran hurdles and did the decathlon once for fun. My forte was getting out of the blocks. Once I took two steeps all the true sprinters left me in the dust. I did run distance and found that Soccer was my real sport. (It is a game that is usually won or lost in two strides). I did track because I wanted to play a sport in the spring too. It was fun back then. When I retired I gave my javelin to the local college and they told me they don't use the Held model anymore. OH Well. Nice to look back.
The shot was usually won at around 49 or 50 feet. I remember when John Hannah threw it nearly 60 at one. I used to know Randy Matson's roommate who was nearly as good as him and played NFL football.
I was in a similar situation to you. I ran the 100 (yards not meters) in 9.6, 9.7, and 9.8, usually. Unfortunately we had another guy who could do 9.3 and was actually better than that in the short indoor sprints. I saw him beat several world class and olympic sprinters. We had three other guys who were in the 9.7 range.
Wow, thats fast. I could not come anywhere near that mark. I ran practice starts with the sprinters but never the runs. It was far too embarassing. I said the discus was heavy, but the shot was way too heavy. I was not a weight man, but was able to whip the discus and javelin with a fast turn. With that speed and strength you were in the decathlon class. My hat is off to you.
Soon as I get back to the publications room on monday at school I should be able to get the hospital photo from the night he was hit. To explain why it was at that angle, the grass was all wet that day, and he couldn't stop in time and slid right into the back point of the javelin. His whole motion knocked him off his feet and he landed on his back with the front of the javelin still in the ground. Amazingly enough, nothing was hit and the javelin went through only skin. After all this too, our school refuses to give him the ramaining halves of the jav for some reason.
Sure, whatever skippy.
Wow, nicknames, mature. How's this for skippy, hospital pic: http://www.antishift2.com/image.php?id=121602&size=medium
Skippy, just give it up.
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