LOL about the boob fall, Jocelyn!
Many many years ago when I started skating I was doing a spiral and, big surpise, tripped on my pick and landed, like Jocelyn, on the most bony part of my left kneecap. It took several weeks to really heal and to be able to kneel. To this day, when I bend my left knee, there's a funny popping sound.
I think we've all been a victim of the spiral fall!

This past winter I was off the ice because I hurt my knee. I was in a knee imobilizer for quite a long time after, and off the ice for a good one or two months. I think I fell back in November, right before a local competiton here. How did I do this? Well, I fell skating forwards on my way to put my tissues and water bottle on the boards. My toepick cought the ice and I went down, falling right on top of my knee. That really wasnt the worst part though. The worst part was actually FEELING the kneecap shift to the side. Thank god I didnt do more serious damage to it, because that could have stopped me from skating for a LONG time. Sometimes the ones that are the strangest, hurt you the most.

Come to think of it, this has to be the WORST year in terms of skating for me. I had foot problems in September, knee problems from November - January, foot problems that caused me to be off the ice for another two months in March, and a sprained hand. Wow... what a year it has been. I think ive been on the ice for a combined total of 3 months!

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Wont it be great? Someone else in '08!

Oh, I forgot about that one. Fell off my blade on a spin entry during a lesson. My coach and I were both !

I recently went flying out of a camel spin. Can't work out what happened but one minute I was in the spin, the next I was flying towards the ice. I hit right elbow, left elbow then the rest of me and felt very sick at first cos my elbows hurt so much.

Nicki

Let's see:

Blade guard falls- 3

Spin falls- lost count- but did have one that had me rushed to the hospital for minor concussion and broken wrist!

Last week, had my first ever, spiral fall. Was trying to get my leg higher and hit the toepick. While lifting my head and wrists to avoid another injury to what I descibed above, I bellyflopped onto the ice and got it good on the right side of my ribs. Was knocke dout of breath so much that I couldn't talk for several seconds- that was scary!

I've told this story before. When I was first learning to skate, my coach and I were circling the rink talking when suddenly my feet went flying.

Somehow during the course of the fall, the little hole in the zipper-pull from my jacket found it's way over my left toe pick and hooked. I hit the ice like a turtle on it's back. It had me tied up. I couldn't rock forward far enough to unhook it. My coach was laughing too hard to help.

Add me on to the list of victims that have fallen chest-forward on a forward spiral. That one was one of the worst falls I took since I remember blacking out for a second and then seeing stars. Scary.

The most recent fall was a botched attempt at a split-jump. My friend talked me into trying one at full speed. I picked into the ice, jumped, and threw my left leg up, but when I came down, I didn't grab the ice with a toe-pick. I somehow managed to bring my right leg forward and landed squarely on my butt, but at least I avoided landing in a split position. It still hurt though!

Emily

Today during my lesson, I was reviewing the back crossovers to back edges (MITF) with my coach. Well, I was not on top of the world today and didn't have great balance, and my blades did the click of death. Fortunately, I just let myself crumple into the fall, but ended up siding about 20 feet across the ice. That did take away most of the sting though, but I'll have a bruise the size of a large orange tomorrow.

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I've never heard it called that before, but it is so true! That gut wrenching feeling when you hear that sound and wait for the fall...

...quickly followed by the silence of butt on ice....


Been there, done that!!!

It is one of the few times when you know you are in trouble.

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Figure Skates - $400.00
Stretchy Gloves - $3.00
Leaving your Blade Guards on as you step on the ice: Priceless.

I actually think my recent blade guard fall in front of Elvis Stojko and Irina Slutskaya is what started this whole thread...

Ok, other falls:

Scratch spin - A "substitute" coach was helping me with my scratch, trying to get it faster, so he was whipping my arm around to make me hook harder as I stepped into the spin. Well, the next thing I knew, I was on the ground, shaking my head and seeing spots. I had briefly blacked out and was able to make it to the boards on my own volition, but later had to be driven to the ER for a check. While there, George Jones (the country singer) chose that moment to get drunk and roll his Lexus over off a bridge, so he was Life Flighted in and bumped me down the waiting list, so my poor friend and I had to wait in the ER with about a million people with the flu (and one bum with a giant bag of M&Ms) while they tried to patch George up. Also had lovely ice burns on one cheek.

Spiral - fell forward.

Waltz jump - I have no idea what happened, but one day I just went down on one. Hard.

MIF Cross edgy things (don't know what they are actually called, but you skate on an outside edge on one foot and then swing your other foot and front and switch to the outside edge on that foot). TOEPICK. Down.

Crossover click of death - check

Left back inside mohawk - superman slide.

Gee, and my friends say I never fall.

The last fall I had was when I slipped and fell doing the British waltz. I assumed I'd done something wrong - until Tashakat, dancing the same dance with my husband, slipped but did NOT fall in exactly the same place. And she blamed him, and she should know......

He's kicked my blades out from underneath me twice when competing the Fiesta Tango, too. This time I said to him, "If you're going to kick my blades out, please do it NOW, not in the competiiton," but at that precise moment my father let out the most enormous hiccup, and I started laughing so hard that I couldn't even do the Mohawk. Himself said it was an excuse, but what does he know?

But the worst falls are when you aren't doing anything special, and your feet just slide out from under you. Those are scary.

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Ice dancers have lovely big curves!

You have no warning, and no opportunity to realize you're falling (unless you have reflexes such that you can turn off your bedroom light and watch it go dark from your bed!! ) and position yourself to fall properly. That almost happened to me yesterday, but fortunately I had the warning of the blade click...! I'm surprisingly ok today, no major hip pain, only mild, no big bruise. My arm hurts though, the one that I used to help break the major impact.

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They're called forward cross rolls.

You did the guard fall in front of Elvis and Irina?? Eek. I'm sure they've done it themselves too, lol. Were you a sweeper or something? How come you skated with them?

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Today warming up for my lesson I was doing back crossovers. Everything went fine until the click of death. However, I managed to step forward on an outside edge, complementing myself that I had cheated the click of death and promptly tripped up on my toepick and fell on the ice anyway.

I guess the morale is, when the click of death occurs, just fall and get it over with....

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This was the subject of a thread some months ago. Since then, I have learned that the same move is called "cross strokes" if it is a freestyle move (it's part of Juv MIF), and "cross rolls" when it's a dance move, as in the Argentine Tango or the Paso Doble.

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along with P&T (I think) were in town for COI and showed up to skate the practice session at my rink. I don't know if they actually SAW me bust my *ss, but it was bad enough just knowing that Elvis was in the building. It was a great session though. They were very considerate skaters (there are a bunch of different levels on Saturday FS sessions) and were patient when the kids at the rink attacked them for autographs. We adults felt we should give them their privacy, but I wanted to act like a child and get my picture taken with them so badly. Well, less badly after I fell so ignobly.

All the best,

Ice

My then 10-year-old daughter fell backward with her skate blade facing upwards, which cut into her buttuck/upper back thigh. While there wasn't any outward bleeding, she had a HUGE bruise and it actually cut through the tissue under the skin. She now has a long, horizontal crease in her skin that's gradually fading as shecontinues to grow. Her doctor said she has never seen anything like it.

Oh you are talking to the queen of freaky falls!!
My mom says that there hasnt been a day since I learnt to walk that I didnt have a bruise...lol!
-Going in 2 double axel I slipped right of my edge and NAILED my hip it really wasnt great at all!
-This week I landed right on my tailbone on the same jump too.
-Last week my landing leg was overly bent on the landing and I fell right on me knee trying a flip or a salchow...
-I was doing a backwards figure 8 and I guess I was to far back on the blade and WOOSH right backwards into the boards.
-Last year I landed soo far back on a double axel I hit the back on my head...lucky for me I decided to put a bun in my hair that day..
-In summer skating school a couple years back it was a last day and we were playing games and I tripped right over my toe pick and hit my chin.... I later got like 5 stiches in my chin..
lol so far thats it!!
lol
-sarah