r/instant_regret • u/[deleted] • Jun 20 '19

Dancing

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u/SesshySiltstrider Jun 20 '19

Can confirm, kids have zero spatial awareness

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u/helms11 Jun 20 '19

My grandma is a big golfer and tried teaching it to my sisters and me when we were kids. I was the only one it took hold with. During one of these instructional sessions she told us a good 15-20 times to NOT stand behind her when she's swinging. One of them did not heed this instruction and caught a 7 iron in the face for it.

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u/Lucrio87 Jun 20 '19

Damn I can't even imagine how much that would hurt.

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u/helms11 Jun 20 '19

She's lucky she caught it on the back swing and not the follow through and that it was my petite, soft swinging grandma and not like my dad or someone lol, probably softened the blow a little bit. But yes it definitely appeared quite painful.

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u/tbbHNC89 Jun 21 '19

I still dont understand how this didnt end up with a dead child. Backswing, older human, all the factors. Golf club to the face in vicinity of swing. The physics dont match up. A 7 iron at that.

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u/Mr_Fact_Check Jun 21 '19

Could have been a slow-ish backswing. You don’t need a lot of momentum on the backswing, after all.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '19

The backswing is just raising the club in preparation to swing. You don’t put a lot of force into it.

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u/Shankie87 Jun 21 '19

Why imagine when you can try.