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Tips please--- How to fall and avoid injury.
Joseppi;1152966 wrote: Honestly, I'd say the best way to eat it without breaking it is to eat it........a lot. I feel that I have pretty great reflexes when falling, but I've taken my share of injury to get me to that point. Falling properly comes from experience in falling, as unfortunate as that may be. I would recommend practicing tricks that are only marginally above your ability; learn to fall as you go. If you want super reflexes, you might take up freerunning . The extra dexterity might help. ...uhh i usually try not to catch myself if its anything that involves landing lower than i left the ground, or high(er) speed falls, i find that you have time to roll up or do something to diffuse your fall better from higher places, and i have a tendency to ditch the unicycle and land on my feet if i'm not going to make a jump, i know my limits very well tho, and can tell when i'm going to make or break a jump. -- skrobo Unicycle For Christ 'MY VIDEOS' (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=skroboskim) 'World Record' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oig5IEq-v4Y) "dude when i first got into this sport and saw one of you videos i almost threw up it was so sick" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ skrobo's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12272 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74930 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Tips please--- How to fall and avoid injury.
Jerrick;1152874 wrote: Take a few martial arts classes. A lot of them will have classes just on learning how to fall and roll. Doesnt take years of classes either. I second this, and would particularly recommend MAs that focus on throws and takedowns: shuai jiao, judo, aikido, some types of jiu jutsu. skrobo;1153015 wrote: ...uhh i usually try not to catch myself if its anything that involves landing lower than i left the ground, or high(er) speed falls, i find that you have time to roll up or do something to diffuse your fall better from higher places Agreed. IME, tucking up is always better than trying to catch yourself, unless you're specifically trying to keep your torso from being impaled on some jagged branch or spiky rock. -- Tak "Unicycling goes against common sense." --maestro8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tak's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/17247 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74930 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Tips please--- How to fall and avoid injury.
Six weeks and my broken fingers are just starting to be usable, though it hasn't stopped me from riding Hand injuries are common if you fall on your hands, the same could be said if you fall on your head I wear full gloves with wrist splints on both sides, but there's no good way to protect your fingers other than don't fall with oiutstretched hands. Think of it this way: If you fall, you're gonna land on some part of your anatomy, so which one do you prefer, your face? Get some leather gloves and tape your fingers together in pairs, so you'll have a thumb and two sets of double fingers, it still works for muni, and the two finger combos are stronger and more injury resistant than the individual fingers. I leave my gloves taped and just slip them on and off. -- Nurse Ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nurse Ben's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/17487 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74930 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Tips please--- How to fall and avoid injury.
Nurse Ben;1153211 wrote: Get some leather gloves and tape your fingers together in pairs, so you'll have a thumb and two sets of double fingers, it still works for muni, and the two finger combos are stronger and more injury resistant than the individual fingers. I leave my gloves taped and just slip them on and off. [making ET noise] loook at my hands, i am an alien! ... ... ... mmrooowwww... ... ... really tho, that seems like it would get to you after a while, and fingers would become very sore very quickly. -- skrobo Unicycle For Christ 'MY VIDEOS' (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=skroboskim) 'World Record' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oig5IEq-v4Y) "dude when i first got into this sport and saw one of you videos i almost threw up it was so sick" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ skrobo's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/12272 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74930 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Tips please--- How to fall and avoid injury.
Buddy taping your fingers like Nurse Ben suggests might help. I agree with others though the best way to get good at falling is to fall a lot. Martial arts like Judo or Jujutsu would be great training. Also if you are falling on your hands try not to spread your fingers but do not make a fist. have your hands in a nice neutral position (fingers close slightly curled etc) -- saskatchewanian ------------------------------------------------------------------------ saskatchewanian's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/14180 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74930 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Tips please--- How to fall and avoid injury.
I dont know about the uni yet so thanks for this thread! but I've fallen a million+ times skating. Forwards is safest. I find its best to impact multiple places so I hit knees, elbows and wrist guards. More areas disperses the impact I find. Odd falls, collapse (keep body loose), get small, roll it out. Worst thing is outstretched arm. Even with wrist guards, the force travels to your forearm. I wish I knew how to fall sideways with my head going towards the ground. Natural instinct is put arm out. So thats how I shattered my arm! I guess to tuck arm around head to hit many places and roll it out? -- cbs ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cbs's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/18611 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74930 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Tips please--- How to fall and avoid injury.
I think its a good thing to learn to dive and roll, and be able to tuck up and break roll out of bails. It spreads the force out more in a hard fall. Other than that wear protection lol, it's simple. -- 1-wheeled-grape *this signature is pointless... do not **even bother reading it, it would be a waste of time you wasted your time didn't you? * *"You must have shot an awefull lot of tigers sir" "Yes... I used a machine gun!" * * ** * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1-wheeled-grape's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/15877 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74930 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Tips please--- How to fall and avoid injury.
zogola;1152890 wrote: Does it take a long time for the lessons to become ingrained enough to be second nature when you are about to eat it? Do the lessons still help with the sometimes awkward (and FAST) ways a person falls from a uni? Yes. No. Meaning: probably it doesn't take a long time for those lessons to become sufficiently ingrained, so they still would help in a practical case. Before I started riding 36" unicycles I had never had a fall while I was going faster than I could run. After some practice on a 36", going faster than you can run is not uncommon. Knowing that I would fall, I rehearsed mentally what I should do when I would lose it and fall forward: tuck my head and roll over my (right) shoulder. Mind you, I had never actually done this, but I did read about this technique. I've had a couple of such falls now, and much to my relief I was successfully able to do such a roll without much thinking. Like you say, when you fall everything happens so fast that you don't have time to think. Now in your case, riding off an 8" step, you're not going faster than you can run, so in principle there no need for a roll. Remember that the uni will save itself, but you have to save yourself. That means: bail out early enough that you can land on your feet. But if you can't (e.g. because you try too long to correct and stay on the wheel) and are about to eat it, that same tuck-and-roll technique might help. Back to the case described in your initial post: better is avoiding to fall in the first place. If you ride off an 8" step, you could absorb the landing by bending forward. Also, don't put your weight on the seat, or you'll bounce off of it. -- Klaas Bil ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Klaas Bil's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/3442 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74930 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Tips please--- How to fall and avoid injury.
Thanks everybody, your input has been really helpful. I'm taking notes here... Better gloves, wrist protection, taping paired fingers, basic martial arts, don't make a fist, stay relaxed, avoid outstretched arms, improve technique to avoid falling in the first place, fall more, etc. It all makes sense, and I'll look into it all. Any further tips on technique to avoid injury or equipment recommendations are appreciated. Oh and Klaas Bil... I think you probably found the cause of my wipeout- too much weight in the seat. Thanks for the suggestions. Kurt -- zogola ------------------------------------------------------------------------ zogola's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/17893 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74930 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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Tips please--- How to fall and avoid injury.
I can't help you, so for I have broken my back and torn my meniscus in my knee! I suck! -- Munivision Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Munivision's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/14619 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/74930 Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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