What is your worst tale of racking yourself. for anyone confused.
rackingg = slamming your balls very hard
i have been riding for 2 weeks and i already have a story
when i was learning to ride i was out and i was riding straight to a curb. i thought i would fall b4 i made it but i went a little farther then expected i ended up slightly leaned back so my balls where on the seat then slamming into the curb stopping the unicycle throwing me to the ground.
When I was just learning to hop and gap I tried to jump from my porch to my driveway. Somehow my feet slid off the pedals and I landed on my balls, balanced for a second then fell down. I layed there for a good 5 minutes.
Another one happened just recently when I was trying to drop off this big mail box that sits on my lawn(its about a 4 foot drop). Pretty much the same thing as before, my feet slip off and I land on my balls.
my favorite story hapenned about a year ago.
i was muniing in the rain, so all the bridges and log rides were reallly slick… and so, there was this one thin log i got on but i quickly lost my balance and fell with one leg on either side of the log. i had landed right on a broken twig that hadn’t been cut off the log, it had gone through my pants and ripped my sack.
I had only been uni-ing for a week, and couldn’t ride for more than about 50 or so feet. I was in the street, and I stopped, and took my feet off the pedals, then I started to lean forward and was pinned on the seat by gravity. It hurt really bad, I “rolled” my balls.
Then, monday I was riding off a 3 ft drop, I did it fine once, but then I tried to rolling hop off of it, and racked myself HARD.
Mine aren’t as good as some of yours, but then again I’ve only unicycled for a good month and a half.
“i have been riding for 2 weeks and -that’s why I- have a story”
Trust me, you’ll do it much less often once you really start to get the hang of riding. I’ve been riding for about 2 years and I would say that 66% of the times that I’ve racked myself were in the first 2 months of riding (I’ve done it three times in all).
Aside from the odd drop with no feet on pedals my worst close encounter of the genital kind was when Ias doing a rolling unispin and the seat snapped and came off in my hand. This left a jagged seatpost upon which I landed ripping my trousers and slicing my inner thigh rather too close for comfort.
I dont really have much trouble with racking myself, I’ve never done it that bad on a unicyle, but I do nip them sometimes with the edge of the seat, and I pinch my scrodom on the seat very often. (I need a larger seat.)
Not quite racking but about 30 minutes ago I fell onto my T7 handle and got the corner stuck into my body just above the Crown Jewels. My pelvic bone was close to the skin there and that made it hurt worse - hitting the Jewels might actually have hurt less. Or might might have hurt significantly more… Probably I’m glad I didn’t find out!
the hardest i racked myself was when i was practicing pedal grabbing onto this high up bench. i jumped up on it, rode around on it, and jumped off. But, the water sprinklers were going off and got my feet, pedals, and tire wet. my feet shot off the pedals when i jumped off the bench but the uni stayed under me, man…i got racked soooooooooooooooooo hard i just yelled “OH SH*T!!!” as loud as i could, right in front of a crowd i was performing for. it sucked!
EDIT:
there were some little kids off in the distance and they heard wat i had 2 say. i hated myself after that.
I don’t have time to read through this painful thread so I’ll post my story I was just getting good at rolling hopping a 5 set (techincally) and I landed it wrong and slammed my right testicle into the seat (of my CX by the way) a few weeks later it was twice the size of normal and I had to have surgery to have it drained (like a giant cyst)
I guess it was the way I landed (or hit it) but it took a while to swell… and I didn’t notice it until it was twice the size of normal and then i went to the doctor and they said that if I had hit it that hard again before draining it, it could have exploded, it could have also exploded if I had gone any longer without getting it checked out…