J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by bald-eagleman

Careful Rossyhead ....some of us ARE 60+ ....but still act like children thankfully

I am SO glad I restarted this thread!! :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

I have to say it is really good to see everyones point of view. Personal preference is the one though....take that from us and you take away the fun. Helmets on Boys and Girls!! :twisted:

I agree totally with Eurocard60. In fact thats what I was trying to imply in my first post earlier this week. More traffic on piste is bound to lead to more accidents....even statistical idiots like me can work that one out. I guess the only way around that is to have a In/out system for each piste so there is a limit on each run :wink:

Lets put bobbles on helmets!!!!!!

I actual agree with Tony-H in that we should all make our own decisions. I have certainly now made mine. I just hope that we do not have to go down the way of legislation but can encourage by use. My worry is the "lets SUE brigade, some of who may sue for damages because "The piste was not smooth enough and I fell" etc etc. This will force legislation into place. I guess with the new laws in Italy and France relating to juniors and helmets we may already be half way there!

Ce La Vie :(

I am a late comer to the helmet debate and have just spent the last hour reading through some of the posts relating to it. Like many I was/am not a bad sportsman playing rugby and cricket to quite a high standard. Yep I wore a gum shield when playing rugby to keep my beautiful looks :lol: but did not wear a helmet playing cricket until the last few years after a bail hit me in the eye when wicketkeeping. I think youth makes you a little less oblivious to risk. I still do not wear a helmet when batting but intent to this year (at 61). WHY? ....because I found out that getting hit on the head...in this case by pack ice after falling a Le Corbier this Christmas hurts like hell, made me dizzy, sick and disorientated. I was lucky. My son and I went straight back to the hotel and hired helmets. I have to say they were comfortable , cool and actually made me feel safer. On returning to the UK my friend showed me his Daughters helmet.....she had crashed at VT and split the lid virtually in half doing a slalom course. He is of the opinion that she would have been dead without a helmet. She still had to go to hospital and undergo a couple of MRI scans after the swelling had gone down. SO I am a convert.
Anyhow I then got to look at all the ski.board magazines out there to see how many folks don the hard hat. Despite the 2 major magazines encouraging the wearing of helmets they do not seem to practice what they preach. In one, nameless but tied to a national paper, over 50% of the editorial staff are pictured wearing ski kit minus helmets. Approx 50% of the advertisers feature piccys of ski/board on and off piste without helmets including (incredibly) a major player in the instruction industry. Even some of the major articles have action shots of skiers without lids. OK people should make their own decision as whether to wear helmets you say, but the fact is serious head injuries would fall if helmets were compulsory. Magazines could encourage this by ensuring all people in their piccys wear lids if skiing (I do like the bobbles thread).I recall the car seat belt debate years before many of you were borne, but we now all put on a seat belt as a matter of course, no argument, no problem. We all have to face the fact there a far more skiers in the same area as there were even 10 years ago so it is obvious there are going to be more injuries. so a helmet as a matter of course aka car belts may be a pain to start with but we would all get used to it very quick. The industry would soon come up with "sexy" lids that even Wickers and Tony_H would wear.Make sure it isn't you who end up of a life support machine! (comment!)

Come on Brooksy....when did you last meet a German, opps sorry ...Austrian.... with imagination!!!..Regimentation is the word I think would cover it maybe? :wink:

thats 'cause if they named them no one would be able to say them... silly!!