Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - what happens if your foot comes out while skipping

So it hasn't happened to me yet, but when I skip or skid, I use down pressure with my left foot towards the rear wheel, and pull up with my right foot in my clip. I'm wondering what happens when my right foot pulls out of the strap. Does my left foot push me over the handlebars? Do I rack myself cause i have no support on the right? has this happened to anyone?
TY - Ben

both my feet slip every so often depending on the shoes i'm wearing and given the fact that i don't tighten the straps very tight. in all instances i've been able to react and recover by planting the offending foot down to stabilize. the advantage of have loose straps is that i can release my other foot to counter.
i guess if i didn't have loose straps i wouldn't be slipping....well, my preference i guess.

If you're quick on your feet, you should be able to react quickly enough to not completely eat it. First time it happens it sort of freaks you out, but then you sort of come to terms with it happening every once in a while.

First time it happened to me I was fighting my way down Parker hill Ave. in Mission hill. I didn't crash but it scared the feces right out of me. It happens everyonce in a while now a days but I just kind of go limp when it does. There is no use in fighting it if it happens, because if you do crash it's better to be loose and roll with it.

i usually just sit down right away and use the "loose" foot to apply back pressure and pull up with whichever foot didn't come out to skid again. it's only happened to me a couple times with clips and straps...it's happened a lot more with clipless pedals, but that's probably because my cleats are worn.

remain calm. and to prevent it from happening, i always angle the my toes up on my front foot and toes down on my back foot in a skid.

your balls might get smashed

remain calm. and to prevent it from happening, i always angle the my toes up on my front foot and toes down on my back foot in a skid.
good advice thanks...i'll try to get in the habit of doing that

also, i was in montreal recently, (and took my bike with me) where they have hills, as opposed to columbus ohio, where we don't...and found that skidding downhill is much easier. is it just a weight distribution thing? when i skid on a flat surface it's usually not smooth, unless the surface is slick. it ends up being a hop kinda thing...which works, but i'd like it to be less jerky of a motion...advice?

btw, montreal: very cool city, lots of bikes, but no fixies and very few s/s's mostly old european road bikes (just asking to be converted)

i've broken a few straps, and everytime i've managed to sink down over the cross bar and let my body ride with the back pedal for a revolution, then straighten back up... not that bad really... i figure anybody that can have a quick enough reaction time to ride in dense traffic can handle breaking a strap or slipping out of the pedal... just a matter of paying attention...
when i was first learning to skid, i spun the gear off the hub and slammed my nuts mega hard on the cross bar... then a rode about 15 feet with my belly resting on the stem, trying to figure out how to unclip my cleats while not twisting so much as to push my scrotum into the bar again...

good times...

Just don't do what I did, and ride without clips on a downhill with a red light in front of you. My right foot slid forward on one brakeless day, and my left was still pedaling. It did immediatly switch to slowing down, but my right pedal hit my right calf 3 times before that worked to stop me. It hurt, and I was bleeding...

Now that I'm clipless, I tend to just stop with my toes instead of clips (slow, unclip before intersection). The one time one foot pulled out of the clips from a really severe stop, that was the foot that did the Fred Flintstone and was the pivot for the 90 degree turn when I hit the crosswalk that put me on the sidewalk... not my proudest moment, but I didnt' get hit by a car...