what safety gear...

I fell on my back and hurt pretty bad my head on the ground and I wasn't
wearing a helmet so I would specially recommend it. If you don't have
plastic pedal, i would also sugest shin pads.
Hope this help you

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Elbow pads, Camelbak, Helmet. Seriously!

I've had two unpleasant backwards falls, both while learning. In both
cases, I hit an elbow hard enough that I couldn't put weight on it for
months. Another time, I ran into a twig (about 3/8" around) that
stopped the unicycle in its track and left me flying backwards. I
missed hitting the edge of the curb with my head by an inch or two.
The helmet protects and Camelback protect head and back against this
sort of fall, even if you don't see it coming.

For the sake of completeness, I rarely ride without wearing gloves for
hand and (with KH Pulse gloves) wrist protection.

Ken

Helmet with rounded back, not the pointed kind. I have troubles in my
neck still from about a year and a half ago from a backwards fall. My
head was fine, but I was wearing a pointy helmet and I think that made
things worse.

The fall was while working on 1-f backwards. I basically landed flat on
my back and my head hit too.

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e39m5 said:

*for learning to ride backwards? I just learned riding fowards, so im
prepared to fall a lot. Any suggestions?

e39m5 *

Helmet and wrist guards

Also e39m5 why do you make so many threads. you seem to have a lot of
questions 😉

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Quoted message said:

you seem to have a lot of questions

Questions are good thats how we lern

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unicyclepa said:

*Questions are good thats how we lern *

true indeed

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One thing I would recommend even more than wearing safety gear is to
land on your feet🙂

Usually I just wear a helmet, but I am usually pretty good at not
hurting myself when I fall. I am currently on a quest to learn
backwards one footed, and I have had many less than perfect falls. Just
don't ever land on that bone right at the bottom of your back, it hurts.
I would say for sure wear a helmet, and whatever else you need to not
be scared. When you are working on going backward, one of the hardest
things (for me anyway) is not stopping just because you "feel" like you
might run into something. It is very unlikely, and also it doesn't hurt
much even if you do.

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until you run into the neighbors' (parked) bmw after rounding a corner
and make a foot-long dent that you have to tell them about and offer to
pay to fix...
but on the bright side, it's been like 3 months and they haven't asked
me to pay.. so i'm hoping they don't ever, fingers crossed

This was going backwards, FYI, and it didn't hurt me much, that's what
the neighbors seemed most concerned about at first was my safety, but it
sure shocked me and would've/still would suck to have to pay

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Wear a helmet. That's about all that I needed. But try not to learn on
too steep of hills, otherwise you sometimes flip over and roll down the
hill- on your head. That's what I did. And just to let you know,
learning to ride backwards is like learning to ride all over again. Good
luck!

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I have never used a helmet, but it sounds like a good idea. I think you
should wear shingaurds even if you have plastic peddles, all the time.
I bought a crapy pair a month ago, and it eliminated the vast majority
of unipain. Your shins will also look a lot nicer!

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