I use all of the usual, helmet, knee/shin, elbow, wristguards, and I
also use ankle suports. I use a soft wrap that laces on and has figure
eight straps with velcro the brand name is ASO which came from an
orthotics place, there are other brands that make a similar product. You
can get active ankles from unicycle.com but I didn't like them they are
plastic stirup that goes in your shoe and pivots at your ankle, I don't
like how wide they are, but they probably give better support than the
kind I use.
I highly recomend them for trials and muni, and for beginners. I wish I
had a picture of my ankle after I broke it riding on slickrock trail in
Moab, my foot was at an amost ninty degree angle to my leg after
dislocating my ankle breaking both the tibia in two places and the
fibula. I'm preaty sure it wouldn't have happend if I had been wearing
ankle supports or it wouldn't have been as severe.
Some people will tell you that wearing ankle supports will cause youre
ankles to become weaker, but I believe that riding a unicycle doesen't
strengthen your ankle like hiking does. The suddden impacts that occure
in an UPD don't strengthen them either and it's easy to twist or break
your ankle without support.
Here's a picture of the x-ray of my ankle after surgery. Dan
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