Who knew that my injurious adventures in swing dancing could get much worse?
Part 1 of my Roll-up injuries involving belt-induced rug burns on my arms was
reported recently, and here, apparently, is part 2.
This time I managed to get kicked in the right eye by my partner's left heel. (Different partner this time.) To my amazement, I not only managed not to drop her, but I was not bleeding and my glasses were not in multiple pieces lying on the ground - the things survived with only a minor scratch to the lens.
My eye, on the other hand, didn't fare as well as I initially thought. No blood, I can still see straight, etc, so I figured I was fine. However, the next day my eye began to hurt worse and worse, til I finally left work to go to the eye doctor, who is apparently no longer covered by my insurance. She proceeded to inspect my eye and dug some bits of dirt and debris out with what looked like a sterile toothpick and inform me that I was lucky that nothing was scratched, but my orbital was bruised and I had an infection in my eye that would require a 4-times-a-day-for-seven-days regiment of an expensive prescription.
Oh well, at least I can still see, my $350 glasses are (mostly) alright, and my infection should go away in under a week. For now it just stings and kinda hurts to blink, but I think I'll survive.
The top picture was about an hour after the incident, and this one was this afternoon. Luckily I don't bruise too bad.
Who knew that my injurious adventures in swing dancing could get much worse?
Oh well, at least I can still see, my $350 glasses are (mostly) alright, and my infection should go away in under a week. For now it just stings and kinda hurts to blink, but I think I'll survive.
In Lindy Hop, the Roll-up is a medium-difficulty lift / aerial that relies a lot on timing, connection, and leverage.
follow are potentially bruised by the leads hands as he uses his upper body to basically make the follow do a somersault in mid-air, while the lead's biceps are apparently brutalized by the follow's funky looking belt, if she happens to be wearing one as the outer hips rotate around that area.
Here is an interesting editorial from Salon Magazine from April 1999(!) discussing, among other things, how pop culture and feature films are influenced by television commercials. It specifically addressed how the 1998 GAP "Khakis Swing" commercial introduced the world to what would become known as "Bullet Time" a year later in The Matrix. It's a good read, and a good example of what the Internet was like eight years ago. [They had the internet then? ;) ...Yes, but apparently without pictures.]