Ski-Instructor Gets Impaled By 18" Branch, But His Reaction Has Everyone Cracking Up

<div><p>There's tough, and then there's Natty Hagood.</p><p>Hagood is a 29-year-old ski instructor who made international headlines when he was impaled through the face by a 18-inch tree branch. He called it a "flesh wound".</p><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p>While skiing with his friends Hagood attempted to make an exit between two trees, but collided face-first with a branch. </p><p>He says he was knocked off his feet and didn't immediately know what had happened.</p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Skibranch-TheSun-1.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Skibranch-TheSun-1_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Skibranch-TheSun-1_GH_content_650px.jpg 650w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Skibranch-TheSun-1_GH_content_750px.jpg 750w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Skibranch-TheSun-1_GH_content_850px.jpg 850w, https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Skibranch-TheSun-1_GH_content_950px.jpg 950w" sizes="89vw" title="Ski Branch" alt="Ski Branch" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><figcaption class="op-vertical-center"><cite>The Sun</cite></figcaption></figure></div><p>"I didn't know if I had broken my jaw, but I knew my face felt weird."</p><p>It must have, because there was a foot and a half long piece of wood pierced through both lips. It extended so far that Hagood said he could see it in his peripheral vision.</p><p><!-- [invalid-shortcode] --></p><p>"So I reached out and kind of grasped the stick and wiggled it a little bit and realized it was rather soundly affixed in my face," he said.</p><p>Once he knew what had happened the tough-as-nails instructor started cracking jokes, even showing his friends his new "piercing".</p><div><figure><amp-img src="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Healed.jpg" srcset="https://www.shared.com/content/images/2017/03/Healed_GH_content_550px.jpg 550w" sizes="89vw" title="All Healed" alt="All Healed" height="9" width="16" layout="responsive"></amp-img><figcaption class="op-vertical-center"><cite>Shared</cite></figcaption></figure></div><p>Hagood was taken to hospital and treated. Ending up with 18 stitches, a nasty scar and one heck of a story.</p></div>