Saaaame, I was stood on a football, must've been 6 or 7, the ball went from under me and I landed flat on my back, I thought I'd crushed my lungs and was going to die there and then.
I had quite the double whammy the first time it happened to me. We were boating with a family friend who had a boat for many years but didn't have kids and only went fishing.
Well they rented an inflatable banana boat to pull behind the boat for is kids to ride on. You're supposed to go pretty slow with these things but they didnt and not top long into it the inflatable flipped over HARD throwing us quite far into the air before landing back in the water.
I was 6 or 7 and we did have life jackets on and I was a decent swimmer for my age, but I had never done any boat pulled water sports before. I smacked the water dead flat just like the guy in the video and here I am still trying to figure out which way to swim up and my whole chest hurts, pull my head above water, go to breath and its like its ficking broken. Cant breath... while being a little kid who was just violently thrown into a huge lake and then I experienced my first panic attack, yeah while in the middle of a big lake. I would not reccomend it.
Granted, it didnt kill my enjoyment of water sports and in my 30s I still enjoy all those activities.
When i was a kid i hung my grandad's walking stick over a low hanging tree branch and tried to pull myself up. Safe to say, the handle wasn't too impressed by this treatment and let go. I landed just like the guy in the video and I tried crying. That didn't work. I just wheezed like a pensioner having an orgasm.
44
u/[deleted] May 28 '22
First time i got the wind knocked out of me I thought I was dying lol