My best hooping accident was getting hit in the eye (not the face) with a wayward hoop. It was just bad luck and timing. One of my friends had the hoop over her head and just lost control, so it went flying. It was really windy that day, so it flew an extra few feet. I had just dropped my hoop and was bending down to pick it up when BAM! I got whacked full force in the eye with her hoop. I started seeing spots, so I had to go to my opthamologist (different from an optometrist as I learned a year earlier). I had some bleeding (not visible to the naked eye, so thank goodness I didn't have a scary red eye) but it went away after a few days. The best part is that this was the SECOND time I'd gone to the opthamologist after a hooping accident. He looked at me funny the first time, but the second time I think he was wondering if I was clumsy, lying, or insane.

A few weeks later, I had a collision with another hooper. We were playing a game where you roll the hoop on the ground and then run through the hoop. This other hooper and I ran through our hoops at the same time. We were so focused on running through the hoops that we didn't notice each other and she somehow whacked me in the forehead with her knee just as we each came out of the other side of our hoops. Everyone freaked out, but I was like, hey, this is NOTHING compared to my last accident! I was seeing stars, just like in the cartoons.

As a result of these two hooping incidents, bruising the crap out of my knee doesn't phase me at all :D