I took a tumble last night....

[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.

[BillyMac]

Three times:

Fast break, I'm moving from trail to lead, along the sideline, looking over my left shoulder at the players moving up the court:

1) Run into the only set of bleachers opened on that side of the gym. Twenty-seven years ago, and I can still feel the pain in my shin.

2) Run into a cheerleader. She falls, I keep going. Officials don't have to try to avoid contact like players running into or though a screen. Right?

3) As I turn to become lead, my legs get tangled together.

[rainmaker]

I'm new lead trying to stay ahead of a fast breaking A player who was looking back hoping to receive a pass. She was directly behind me, running faster than me and not looking forward. Our feet got tangled, I went down, arse over tip, so to speak, and she received the ball, cutting towrad the basket and thus missing my flying body parts. I did a full somersault, came up on my feet and called a foul on a B player trying to cut off the shot. Very dramatic, and no permanent damage.

[refnrev]

I've never fallen but I've almost stepped on several cheerleaders! I actually hit one with my hand once when I started the five second count on an inbounds play.

[artmoe]

Today I was working a game with my partner that is 73 years old and he was Lead and decided to try and get a better angle and ended up a couple feet onto the playing area and a girl happened to hit him square on while she was cutting through the paint and my partner was off balance at the time and he went flying and did a couple of rolls on the floor. He didn't get hurt but you wouldn't guess he's 73 either. He actually gets up and down the court pretty darn good. This was a Girls Varsity game BTW.

[26 Year Gap]

A guy I went to camp with took a tumble while running backwards. It is on tape.