Ball Busting Sports Science

[ron25]

Here's a great link that shows what happens to a guy who knows he is about to get his balls smashed. To bad the guy's balls are not bare... but still... that's gotta hurt.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmIVSny4e2g

[smallgenitals]

Ouch, that was painful to watch. Every girl who says getting hit in the balls can't hurt that bad needs to watch this.

[Waterways]

They did a related thing where a guy took a kick with 1100 lbs of force to the groin without flinching (compared to the 68 lbs of the tennis ball to the groin). They attribute this ability to Wolff's law*, but I thought that was for bone, not soft tissue. Either way, it's interesting what people are capable of.

Part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB7gnB31NnI
Part two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a86cQobU-n4

* "The principle that every change in the form and the function of a bone or in the function of the bone alone, leads to changes in its internal architecture and in its external form."