re: gerardpoche
OOOOWWWWW!!!
That’s the most painful sounding description of an injury I’ve ever heard!
The worst I’ve done in my month or so of riding, is bang up my shin to the point I was limping for a half a day. But my leg armor came today, so perhaps the pain will stop. 
Leg Armor=confidence to try stupid things you probably shouldnt be doing in the first place.
Have FUN!
Re: uni related injuries…
My first big uni related injury has probably never happened to anyone
before. Tom Miller at the Unicycle Factory saw the horrible scar first
hand. I had just started getting into 28’ uni’s back in 1988, soon I had
several of them in my collection and loved the additional speed. On my
second day out on a new 28" I was coming off the sidewalk down a small
curb at full speed. My left leg came off the pedal and my right leg was
still pedaling, somehow my left leg got planted in front of the unicycle
while it was still moving. The brand new tire actually tore a chunk out
of my leg in the shape of a tire! The chunk was hanging by a small bit
of skin and I could see my muscles. At the hospital the doctor thought I
had been bitten buy a shark.
By far my worst injury was hitting a metal crossbeam right between the
eye’s. I was riding with a baseball hat on and was looking down, the
morning sun was bright in my eye’s so I didn’t see the one inch strip
of metal between this big sign. I broke my nose, cracked the back of my
skull open, popped my right eardrum, had a blood clot on the brain and
came close to death. I now wear a helmet and it truly saved me about 2
years ago when I hit another metal beam while being distracted by some
people.
I may be a bit accident prone, but I’m still riding today. Thank God!
PPD from height
I wish I could say my worst uni related injury was when I geared the 4 1/2 foot giraffe to a 40" equivalent. On one of my first launches the front wheel shot out and I came down on the chain ring leaving a memorable and painful, but not permanent, chain/sprocket tattoo in my calf.
While practicing the 9’ giraffe I too had a PPD (per gerardpoche above). Normally a 6 1/2’ drop is a hard landing but do-able, but hind sight is 20-20, with a 6+’ drop it must be landed right every time or it can end in injury. (My ortho-pod told me of a man 1/2 my age that broke both legs, heel on one and ankle on the other, by landing wrong from just hopping over a 6’ fence so now I don’t feel so bad).
I fractured my calcaneus, the heel bone. I am currently building strength by spinning my road b*** on the trainer but don’t dare ride the uni yet and risk another PPD.
I think I’ll stick to my stable of 24’s and become a coker-head next.
Hope to be tearing up the Oregon Coast in Tillamook this Thanksgiving… only three weeks away.
