The Ski Helmet Debate

Non matching is good

Eggman wrote:Non matching is good

Thanks Eggman

The thing is, my husband and I have to earn the money, and I know how hard I have to work to earn £85 for matching goggles (and I don't care really anyway!). But at least my daughter is happy now, and hopefully she will wear her very expensive helmet and goggles.

Ally

Hi
For what it is worth on the helmet front i would say this. Last year i had a fairly bad stack, skiing far faster than my ability, eventually crashing the back of my head on some ice. I felt like i had been hit by a sledge hammer, in fact it took me about 10 minutes to come round. all this with a decent helmet on. I shudder to think what would happen if i wasn't wearing that helmet, so for me I would always wear one. In fact a group of 14 of us are off next week, and all now have head protection.

Well, just for information, I have just done my first week with a Helmet

I really did not know what to expect, but can honestly say that I did not notice I was wearing it within a period of about 5 minutes. It really came into it's own later in the week when it turned cold and the wind got up, as I cannot ever remember having such a warm head when skiing in bad wind

It also got me a new nickname. I had this "black theme" going this year, with a new Black Jacket and Black Helmet, so one of my mates asks if I have an inkling to be Darth Vader, to which my Brother promptly replied "Ha, don't you mean Daft Vader?" which ended up sticking



On a serious note though, my Sister was hit from behind by a Boarder on the first afternoon. She also wears a Helmet, and thankfully this did protect her as she hit the piste pretty hard with the back of her head. All she ended up suffering was a sore shoulder for the rest of the week.

All due to someone going WAY too fast on a very busy Blue run back to the resort. We learnt from that, and found it was far easier, even for the relative beginners in our group, to use the Black run back down, as it was almost always empty, and once past the initial steep icy part was a pretty good run down.

Far Queue,
Daft Vader is a good nickname. I like that

Thanks for the reassurance re wearing a helmet, as I will be trying mine out very soon. Maybe I should see if I could get a side mirror attached to it so that I can see any out of control skiers/boarders coming up behind me before they wipe me out

Ally

I will confess that I don't wear a helmet but know it makes sense. Last season out of 5 skiiers I was the only one that didn't suffer concussion or need to take time out after a severe headache due to a fall and in all honesty it was surprising since I took some pretty hard falls.

I have to say it is noticeable in Canada that more skiiers wear helemets than they do in Europe and in fact I have had a few lectures about not wearing one as a skiier when on a chair lift!

I hate preachers

Hi all, I started skiing last year, and to be honest I did not like the idea of wearing a helmet, however after day 3 I decided to go and get one, I bought a hmr helmet as I like the look of them.

There are many risks in the alpine environment, but something happened while on a slope that made me think twice about not waring one, I was skiing down the hill on the green slope in Courchevel and decided to pull over and stop to wait for my buddies just by a bridge.

While i was waiting for the guys to come down a car passed over the bridge and the vibration dislodged a large section of ice which fell onto the slope just where I passed through. I would say that have the ice hit me as I passed under it would have certainly knocked me for six.... well I dread to think to be honest, so from that moment on I were a helmet now.