 And the fear of falling off and hurting yourself? Once or twice, I've had a bit of a bang on an elbow. As long as you're wearing pads, you can even wear ones you can't see if you're worried about looking uncool. You can put them under your clothes and people won't know. Helmets are a really good idea, though. And yeah, no, it's fine. It's really fine. It's a low impact sport most of the time.