Well I suffered my first serious injury with the Unicycle.
I broke both the Tibia and Fibula in my right leg two weeks ago.
Basically I traded Unicycles with a fellow rider in order to get more
practice with 150mm crancks. I usually ride with 165s. When coming down
a pretty steep hill (That I have ridden no problem before with my
165s.) with lots of boulders in the path I did not have enough control
and power with the 150s to control the decent. I took a fall with the
unicycle falling accross my right calf and I then fell on the unicycle
using it as a lever to snap both bones in my right calf. I waited fully
concience in the woods for over an hour and a half for the ambulance to
arrive and then had to suffer a long strecher carying hike out of the
woods to the Ambulance. I am lucky for two things. I had good friends
with me. I want to thank Amit Steven Kobi and Nir for thier cool headed
actions. Second I was wearing Azonic Neoprene guards. I am sure that
thier thick neoprene material that was totaly wraped around my calf
saved me from the having the bone rip through the skin. I now have a
Titanium Triton Rod and three screws in my right Tibia. Joking about
the Triton part! It will now be another month before I can start
walking and probably about 3 months until I am back to normal.
Now after two weeks most of the swelling has gone down and I have
regained almost full mobility in my knee. It was not dammage by the
fall but was cut open during the surgery in order to insert the
Titanium rod. I still have very limited movement of my ankle but I am
hoping that this will improve as soon as the swelleing an bruising
totaly disapear. I did not damage the knee or the the ankle so I should
not limp and should regain full use of my leg.
Open fractures like I suffered when the bones actually seperate from
each other are very painful. However I am most bothered by the fact
that I can't ride for three months. Don't worry when I get mended up I
am going to be an even more fanatical unicyclist than before!
By the way, I have been looking at a alot of recent Joe Hodges Youtube
videos and I must say that he is probably the primere Trials unicyclist
out there now! Jumping over 1.2 meters on a regular basis! And what
control and gaps!
Unicorn
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accomplish great feats!
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