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anyone impaled themselves on a nut tool? 1-Sep-2009 At 7:52:48 AM Guniea Sauras Rex

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>Guinea, about ten years ago I saw a guy crack his coccyx when he was attempting a >sit start to a climb in a gym

I don't know if I am totally convinced about the dangers of chalkbag/carabiner combos. It still has a touch of urban myth to me.

I have heard (and do know) a lot of people who have broken their coccyx from landing on their bum heavily - this includes bum injuries from ice skating, bike wheelie-ing all gone wrong and also from people bouldering - without the carabiner/chalkbag combo.

So it is not a difficult injury to sustain and doesn't need a carabiner. The carabiner clips near your saccrum. I reckon if you broke that sitting down is not the only problem you would be having.

It must have been a rather large carabiner to have reached his coccyx in such a way that there was no give in the bones/flesh/muscle.