I took a tumble last night....

[Indianaref]

Sounds like you were making calls off your a$$.

[grunewar]

Yep, once in transition. JV game, as T.

Steal, long pass, now L going into front court, another steal. Reverse footing to get back and there is someone right behind me as I reverse footing. BAM! (as said by Emeril)

Guess I wasn't out wide enough or he was too wide. Thankfully, inconsequential to the play though.

[Scrapper1]

Yup. JV game, I was Lead in transition and a kid ran up my back, got my feet tangled and went down. Rolled over and signaled out of bounds from one knee. Pants had burn marks on them and I had to get rid of them.

[Dan_ref]

JUCO game, almost identical to Scrappy's play. I slid about 15 feet along the sideline, got up & made it to the endline to call the and one. I got a nice round of applause which did not make up for me getting rid of a new pair of pants with a hole burned in the knee.

[JoeTheRef]

Yep. Tripped over this huge boulder in transition. Actually, I don't know what the heck I tripped over. It was like the point of my shoe just stuck to the court, and I did a head first slide right in front of the visiting teams bench. Got up and continued to move to the lead position as if nothing happened. But it took me a couple of trips down to get that out of my system.

[Andy]

Originally Posted by JoeTheRef

Yep. Tripped over this huge boulder in transition. Actually, I don't know what the heck I tripped over. It was like the point of my shoe just stuck to the court, and I did a head first slide right in front of the visiting teams bench. Got up and continued to move to the lead position as if nothing happened. But it took me a couple of trips down to get that out of my system.

My experience was much like this one....only on the opposite side of the court in front of the stands. To make matters worse, it wasn't even a fast break.

I'm trail, jogging alongside the point guard bringing the ball upcourt and just went down.

I still contend that the centerline was painted thicker than the rest of the lines!!!!

[swkansasref33]

My partner & I were officiating MS girls game last year.. happened to be the school I went to down in another town... He was lead on a steal, and was backpedaling, tripped, fell, his heels touched the ground BEHIND his head, and then was ran over by 3 girls. I actually managed to get the game tape from the Home Team, but it doesnt show it all, so I am going to try to find somebody that taped the game from the visiting team (my town), so 20 years down the road I can show it to him and laugh! haha

[kbilla]

Originally Posted by Dan_ref

JUCO game, almost identical to Scrappy's play. I slid about 15 feet along the sideline, got up & made it to the endline to call the and one. I got a nice round of applause which did not make up for me getting rid of a new pair of pants with a hole burned in the knee.

Surprised to hear that everyone burned out their knees when they went down - I thought polyester was built to withstand a nuclear blast....

[dblref]

Yep. Doing a wreck game, Catholic school gym, tile floor with, shall we say, waves? Anyway, as I am transitioning from trail to lead after a steal, I hit one the bad places on the floor and as I am going down, I stick my hands out to break the fall and broke my right wrist. Lost a couple of weeks worth of games and then finished the season with a cast on my right wrist. Learned to finally signal with my left hand.

[tjones1]

Well I voted and all I've got to say now is knock on wood.