Well, i calculated mine and it depends on if i am very fit or just fit -- i guess it depends on who is more fit than me! I am in very good condition and i went from 17 to a possible 19% depending on which i clicked and i'm over 40! i was expecting more questions about muscles, etc.

But i think i've seen more serious injuries in adults! I had one bad head injury and i didn't wake up until i was in the CT scan! My husband said he was not coming to get me again! (he was joking), but even at my level i still have a huge fear of getting a head injury (again)! But the "teeth knocked out" story takes that cake! How did you recover from that one?

Thankfully I was only 11 when I got my teeth knocked out, but unfortunetly they were my adult teeth!!
Firstly I spent a week with no teeth, then got temporary plastic ones before proper ceramic crowns, which unfortunetly I had to get re-done last year!
All the root treatment and filling of nerves wasn't very pleasant!
Though as I said I was 11 so the time of school with all the dentist visits and all the presents made up for it!!

The thought of doing certain things still scares me now but then I realise if they get knocked out again they will only be replaced by what I already have so I am not losing as much as I did first time round!!

Though I think I would consider knocking yourself uncontious a bit more scary?!?!?

Belle

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Pair skating and some lifts in ice-dancing make those disciplines extremely dangerous. It never occurred to me that the guy could suffer serious head injury as a result of an aborted lift until the Paul Binnebose's accident. I've always thought that if a lift fails then it's always the girl that will be in trouble.

I'm 7.711200000000001 %

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Well, I've had more injuries from fly-fishing than I have from skating.... catching yourself on one of those hooks is not nice!

(BTW Aussieskater, hurling is to hockey what Aussie Rules is to ordinary football.....).

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Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

This is a fun exercise, but the calculator has nowhere near enough information to make a valid risk assessment. It doesn't take into account how long you have been doing the sport and what you are attempting to do in the sport. If all I did was skate laps around the rink for a few hours a week, I would estimate my risk level at about 1% because of my skating ability, but this calculator would still put my risk level at 19%. And if I had taken this test less than a year ago, it would have put my risk level at just 14% instead of 19% because I was 39, not 40, even though my body is no different.

Regardless of age, the more experienced you are, the more coordinated you are and the better you are at knowing how to practice smart. That reduces your chances of injury. In my 8 total years of skating, my only emergency room visit was when I was 29 (risk level just 12%, ha ha!). None in my 30's, or in the first year of my 40's. :p

"hurling" what I though you did when you drank too much the night before practicing spins on a early morning FS

That would be "curling" and "hurling"

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Ah, show skating!!! I do it for the glitter!

The problem with the calculator is that it doesn't factor in overuse injuries. Broken bones are nothing compared to severe tendonitis, a torn labrum or ligament, etc.

My skating percentage is 17.136000000000003%

My RIDING percentage is 44.064% plus they're not factoring in owning a youngster!!!! Crikey, at that rate I should be injuring myself almost every time I ride .... mmmm, guess that website is pretty accurate then

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