if you are wearing all the right pads, a straight foreward fall isnt painfall in the least. Indeed it is suprisingly un painfull. But majorly embarressing. You just a moderate to large 'juddering'. Then you have to get up some how.
But pads really should be warn. Yesterday Original Two took a tumble backwards ( well he was bouncing on wet decking so was asking for it really
![Grin ;D](http://www.projumpforum.co.uk/Smileys/default/grin.gif)
). No elbow pads on ---took a layer of skin of 1 elbow. If he was wearing some he would just of got up and looked a bit sheepish.