You're young.
You'll get old (maybe ) and have the aches to regret stuff like that.

I've already got the aches to regret it, but not from the hogs. I'm a pretty old and beat up 40, almost 41 and figure I've only got a couple more years of that kind of stuff in me. I just hope i can hold out a couple more years until my son is old enough to learn the right way. I really have never had an issue, I learned to do it when I was around 12 and never had a hog related injury other than some brush scrapes. I've also done a bit of gator trapping too so the hogs seem pretty mild most of the time.