The Ski Helmet Debate

I can only snowboard and have never tried skiing so I dont know how hard you fall but jeez....I've done judo and rugby but never hit the deck so hard and as fast as when i caught a wrong edge :oops:

Helmet for me thanks

ATOO wrote:I can only snowboard and have never tried skiing so I dont know how hard you fall but jeez....I've done judo and rugby but never hit the deck so hard and as fast as when i caught a wrong edge :oops:

Helmet for me thanks

I agree the decision is made on your ability level, as you have played sport you will know what it is like to be hit from the back and no one
yet has mentioned back protection ........ Roboskier here we come :mrgreen:

Ian Wickham wrote:

ATOO wrote:I can only snowboard and have never tried skiing so I dont know how hard you fall but jeez....I've done judo and rugby but never hit the deck so hard and as fast as when i caught a wrong edge :oops:

Helmet for me thanks

I agree the decision is made on your ability level, as you have played sport you will know what it is like to be hit from the back and no one
yet has mentioned back protection ........ Roboskier here we come :mrgreen:

I think I'm seeing a certain disdain for folks using body armour Wickers? :D You've mentioned this before.

bandit wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:

ATOO wrote:I can only snowboard and have never tried skiing so I dont know how hard you fall but jeez....I've done judo and rugby but never hit the deck so hard and as fast as when i caught a wrong edge :oops:

Helmet for me thanks

I agree the decision is made on your ability level, as you have played sport you will know what it is like to be hit from the back and no one
yet has mentioned back protection ........ Roboskier here we come :mrgreen:

I think I'm seeing a certain disdain for folks using body armour Wickers? :D You've mentioned this before.

But just wait until the first back injury of the season .......... the marketing men will certainly get to work, but I do not really mind what people ware because it is individual choice,
but I would guess that the most common ski injury is thumbs and hamstrings and knees so I would wonder how much attention people put to these areas. 8)

Wickers, compare like with like. Back injuries can be serious and permanently debilitating. As are head injuries. Hamstrings/knees/thumbs do generally(not exclusively) tend to be soft tissue damage, and injury can last, though have less life changing impact.

Body armour has been around skiing and snowboarding for many years, not much for the marketing men to pick over :D

bandit wrote:Wickers, compare like with like. Back injuries can be serious and permanently debilitating. As are head injuries. Hamstrings/knees/thumbs do generally(not exclusively) tend to be soft tissue damage, and injury can last, though have less life changing impact.

Body armour has been around skiing and snowboarding for many years, not much for the marketing men to pick over :D

I not too sure how many skiers wear body armour I would guess not many, but you have to look at the percentages I again would guess the odds are you are more likely to pick up a hamstring,knee injury than a head I protect myself against these more common ski injuries by wearing knee supports and warm up shorts, seems to also stop all those silly exercises you see the others doing at the top of the lift.

To me it's common sense to take some precaution against a life changing injury. All the more so if you have dependents.
I don't wear body armour myself but know a couple of people who do. A helmet though I feel is essential.

andyhull wrote:To me it's common sense to take some precaution against a life changing injury. All the more so if you have dependents.
I don't wear body armour myself but know a couple of people who do. A helmet though I feel is essential.

And thats fine Andy it is all about individual choice 8)