: Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:51 pm  

At the risk of sounding serious and therefore boring, allow me.

Quite alot of players wear them these days perhaps not in SL but across the amateur game. You don't tend to think you need them until you catch a shoulder or knee on the bicep. A dead bicep feels like a dead leag but about twice as bad IMO, and can probably keep you out for a couple of weeks if you catch one badly enough. I'm guessing Sinny (and Sean Long) have caught one before, and decided that padding would be a good idea.

: Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:53 pm  

Matt23 wrote:

At the risk of sounding serious and therefore boring, allow me.

Quite alot of players wear them these days perhaps not in SL but across the amateur game. You don't tend to think you need them until you catch a shoulder or knee on the bicep. A dead bicep feels like a dead leag but about twice as bad IMO, and can probably keep you out for a couple of weeks if you catch one badly enough. I'm guessing Sinny (and Sean Long) have caught one before, and decided that padding would be a good idea.

: Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:57 pm  

stiff armers tend to destroy your arms too.

: Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:10 pm  

I caught an innocuous shoulder to my bicep towards the end of our uni season, which required constant ice etc just to give me a chance to play the next week. I couldn't straighten my arm for two days, very strange but painful injury.

: Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:15 pm  

Matt23 wrote:

I caught an innocuous shoulder to my bicep towards the end of our uni season, which required constant ice etc just to give me a chance to play the next week. I couldn't straighten my arm for two days, very strange but painful injury.

Ouch. It sounds it!

How long were you out?

: Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:19 pm  

It was finals week mate, didn't want to tell the coaches so battled through a wrestling session midweek and it came round fine for the game a week after it had occured.

: Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:23 pm  

Ouch.. doesn't sound too pretty.

Good to hear you battled through though!

: Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:29 pm  

LS16_Rhino wrote:

Give your avatar about 35 minutes before it gets replaced

2 & 1/2 hours and still going strong LS16 haha

: Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:31 pm  

Wicket wrote:

2 & 1/2 hours and still going strong LS16 haha

Gutted.

I had a pic of Ronaldo with w@nker written underneath (I like to keep it simple, much like yourself ) and I got asked to remove it within half hour.

: Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:43 am  

The user "Wicket" now has to work out how to re-instate his account when he no longer has access to it.

Idiot.