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Did you have those wall bars at school where they swung out from the wall with climbing ropes hanging down. We used to climb them over a parquet floor. H & S wouldnt let you do it in a suite of armour these days.
Now that takes me back.......we had after school gym for strength building to do with rock climbing. Think this was when I was 15 or 16.
On the frame you mention I had climbed the rope and reached the top cross bar/beam and then someone hit the frame causing me to lose my grip.......I went down almost horizontal and landed with my wrist under my left hip.
Within 10 mins there was a golf ball sized swelling on wrist. The teacher responsible for first aid deemed it not broken.
Next morning with it swollen even more my father took me to A&E , turned out I chipped my radius......nothing to set but put me in plaster to stabilise it whilst it healed.
To this day the full wrist movement is a tad compromised, because the tendons never stretched over displaced healed bone . That restricted movement did not help when I later did karate and the Sensei insisted on grasping the clenched fists to force movement.......and mine just would not flex sufficiently to his liking!!!
Heh ho, good old school days