My worst fall was when I was learning a forward spiral during a lesson session. I was building up speed and was just starting to lift/tip forward to start the spiral. I saw that I was skating through a little tuft of built up snow on the ice...except that it wasn't snow, it was a balled up WHITE nametag that they give the tots. I must have hit it just right. For me, the sensation was like starting to lift up my leg, and instead of tipping forward for the spiral I was launched into the air like superman. But it must not have been quite that graceful because I landed on my knee and then went splat on my side and zambonied the ice for quite a ways. I still really eyeball the ice when I'm trying to do a spiral on my bad leg.

Well, I skated with a broken wrist. Of course, I wouldn't encourage anybody to do the same because injuries are different. Mine was just a hairline fracture. I fell on my wrist during my second skating lesson. The coach was showing me how to do forward crossovers and told me to cross my feet. I did and fell hard on my left wrist. It hurt but not too badly. I thought it was just a bruise, but it didn't get better, so I had to see a doctor. He put the hand in a temporary cast for a week because he said it would swell up. I asked him right away when I would be able to skate again, and he said, "Once you have it in permanent cast you can skate." The following week he confirmed it .He only told me not to fall on that hand. So I only missed a week of skating. I didn't even tell my coach my wrist was broken because I was afraid she wouldn't want to work with me. I assumed my cast would work as a wrist guard, and I wore a wrist guard on the other hand. I still wear wrist guards when I skate, just in case.

By the way, when they asked me what color cast I wanted, I chose black. When I went to work, I put on leather pants, a black vest over a white shirt, and I wore a black wrist guard on my healthy wrist to match the cast. I looked like a biker in that outfit. My manager laughed and said, "You're the only person I know who could turn an injury into a style."

Once I was working on a jump and I went up but I went up crooked. I fell with my left arm digging into my stomach and I couldn't breath. In the end I just bruished my stomach a little bit!

I also have bad falls all the time and everybody asks me if I'm okay when I never get hurt.

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My most embarassing fall was when I was testing FS6 in group class. I did one of the best double salchows I've ever done. Then on the way back to the boards, I caught a toe pick when I was stopping and slid (slowly) head first into the boards at the coach's feet. Luckily, the only thing hurt was my pride. But, I did end up passing the level.

ahh i had a really spectacular/nasty one today. i had landed a couple of good double sals, and was building up speed. well, this one i went into with quite a bit of speed, and i'm a powerful jumper naturally, so my checkouts need to be strong. well, i kicked myself incredibly hard in the shin. now, i've taken some horribly painful falls, but the most i do is moan a little bit. i sat there holding my leg screaming "OW OW OW OW OW OW OW" but the skated the rest of the session.

well, i took my tights off to find a 6 inch laceration on top of a giant 6 inch bruise. it. freakin. hurts.

I have had several beautiful falls, one that I recall was a flying camel that I forgot to put my foot down on, loosened a few teeth on that.

The next two falls helped my hip, about 3 years ago I was working on double loop it was getting nice so I started doing it with more speed, so went up pulled way to hard, became more of a lateral roll... landed directly on my hip. Had to be carried off the ice for that one.

A few years later doing killian, huge pattern good speed tripped, on the step forward at the top of the pattern, flew for several feet, landed on hip...again. Once again carried off the ice.

And my favorite, just over a year ago before the surgery I was getting ready to take my Jr moves, 2 days before the test clockwise power circles full speed, tripped face first into the wall, luckily put up my elbow, stress fracture my elbow, bruised my cheekbone, slapped my right hip, split open my left knee, got 3 stitches for that and missed my test because I could barely move. Sigh....

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I stepped on the heel of my blade coming out of a twizzle. I took myself out. Hit the back of my head. What makes it so bad was I was doing it a full speed while coaching synchro trying to get my girls to push the speed during their line. The girls got to take a short break after that but we continued practice with me holding ice on my head.

OWWWW!!!!!!!

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Dance falls are the absolute worst because you're never expecting them. I usually fall on my knees though when I trip right over my toepicks -- I had an especially bad one on intro steps once! Probably the biggest problem has been the Tango Romantica, home to not one, not two, but three of my worst falls: the first end pattern (hit my toepick on a forward progressive); the quick backward mowhawk on the first half (blades clinked, I went down and smacked my head and butt on the ice); and the absolute worst, on the forward three turn at the restart (I was doing the dance on really bad, really soft ice, and had nothing to grip into on the three turn, went down, and hit my head hard enough for the entire crowded session to turn around). Actually, come to think of it, I also recently fell on the helicopter turn while I was partnering it and smacked my head, elbow, and butt (luckily the guy didn't fall on top of me!) So out of the four major falls on the dance, only one has been on a remotely hard step..I also, when I was much younger, managed to go flying on the final mowhawk in the 14 step and fall -- out the door of the boards and right onto the floor -- on a back extension on the Blues.

Freestyle falls, the only bad one really has been when I caught my blade in my laces on a double sal. Unfortunately, the jump was so perfectly landed that I continued to glide backwards until I lost all of my speed and fall striaght on my tailbone. Falling with no speed at all = ouch! Oh, and I've been known to come running out of the music box, step on the ice, and immediately splat for no reason at all.

DON'T YOU JUST HATE THAT?!!! Stuff on the ice is one of the things I fear most and sometimes you just don't see it till it's too late so it takes you out!

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