Unicycle injuries and busted wrists

New to the forum, and I'm about 6 months into unicycling and love it.
It probably took eight days, of an hour a day to ride. Since then I
have been learning new skills all the time riding many times a week.
Bought a Nimbus X 24" a few months back, alot tougher than the thing I
learnt on.

But never really hurt myself...

Idling has taken the most time and patience but as of a few weeks back
I got that too - and it was at this point while idling I realised what
a short step it was to riding backwards! Cool!

Here my inexperience showed, and in what seemed like a nano second it
all went pair shapped as I went flying off backwards, fracturing my
scaphoid as my wrist hit the ground first. Now in a cast I see the
importance of those wrist guards in my snowboard bag

So just wondered what other common injuries I can expect...?

CK


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kington99 wrote:
Badly twisted and sprained ankles is common, dismounting at speed or on
steep ground causes you to fall on them awkwardly. Also cuts on your
shins and the back of your legs is a given unless you wear leg armour,
particularly if you use metal pedals.


I'm so used to cut shins from my bike I didn't notice when I did it on
my Uni a few times.


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lol i fell badly for the first time the day i got my wellgo metal
pedals, i did a 80cm drop or sommit, landed wrong, hurt my ankle and
gave myself 4 lovely gashes.... yeah i'd recommend some leg armour...
for the ankles... i've only ever hurt mine on that particular
instant... get some cycling shorts though, and dont ask why, you dont
have to be a genius to workt aht one out !


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yeah, i was practicin' and tryin' to learn on my 20 incher last night
(i've logged all of about an hour total on (or mainly off) the uni) and
i got me some good gashes on my left ankle. where ya get these vaunted
ankle guards?

and a related question--how long til i can ride???


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climbingkid wrote:


Here my inexperience showed, and in what seemed like a nano second it
all went pair shapped as I went flying off backwards.




Same. I went super fast and hit a bump backwards, and broke my arm. It
was the dumbest and only serious fall I have had so far. I think why
people are hurting their ankle is because they have their foot on the
wrong part of the pedal.


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I remember when I learned to rides years ago as a kid I would get going
and my feet would adjust to the inside of the pedals and next thing I
knew SLAM ankle right into the fork tube.


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when you have problems with your ankles - 661 RaceBrace


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amanda.gallacher wrote:
i thought you couldnt even unicycle
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2000 parachute jumps without a fracture and then I went and broke my
hand falling off my uni. That was 2 years ago and I'm still annoyed
that I did it. My hand landed directly on the pavement and broke a
bone at the base of the hand. It required the insertion of 3 lateral
pins the width of the hand. Needless to say I only ride with
rollerblade-type wrist guards now.

Oddly enough, I quit wearing wrist guards while snowboarding. Maybe I
need to rethink that.


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be careful not to land wrong off stair sets...... do a few
searches....... you'll figure it out.... shins, ankles, wrists, hands,
feet, HEAD, back..... ect.......


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ankles - 'Swede-O' (http://tinyurl.com/y3hkvw) or '661'
(http://www.unicycle.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=720)
shin/knee - '661'
(http://www.unicycle.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=404)
wrist - 'Rollerblade 3D'
(http://speedskaterwear.tripod.com/supclothes.html)
forearm/elpow - '661'
(http://www.unicycle.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=399)
head - 'Giro Xen' (http://www.argear.com/gear/grgiroxenhelmet.html)
seat - cycling shorts
but - '661 bomber' (http://unicycle.com/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=704)

patmoore wrote:
Oddly enough, I quit wearing wrist guards while snowboarding. Maybe I
need to rethink that.


I don't think so, snow is softer than concreet . Unless you ride a
lot of boilerplate.


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