Imagine that you are standing in the center of the parking lot, tossing something about a foot taller than you and weighs five pounds into the air. You toss and catch then repeat. Eventually the wind begin to pick up and it becomes harder to control your tosses until suddenly, wack, your weapon comes slamming down onto your face. It hurts a lot and the natural reaction is to cry because it slammed perfectly across your nose and eyes but you push through the pain and maybe ice your face.
Injuries are a very regular occurrence during marching band season. I honestly would be surprised if we made it through a practice without someone hurting themselves. Wind is a guard member's worst enemy. At one rehearsal a girl on the rifle line was practicing her triples. Rifles range anywhere between two and four pounds. The way that tosses are named is by how many full revolutions it does in the air, that means that in order to toss a triple you have to toss it high enough with enough power that it does three full revolutions in the air before coming back down. We had a girl go to the wrong spot during rehearsal and she decided to back up at the wrong time (it doesn't help that her tosses were also not under control yet) and therefore caused the second girl to lose her focus and miss her catch. The rifle came slamming down onto her face and nearly broke her nose. Luckily she only had a nose bleed after the impact, the other girl however....well, she is much better, now.
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