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  • #16
    Originally posted by graeme View Post
    but are helmets really minimising the risk. i know i board hard and fast, is a helmet gonna afford me real protection? sometimes i use a lid, sometimes i dont, i think it depends if i am gonna be in the trees or not.
    what i am saying is people seem to think that if they put a helmet on they are safe, thats really not the case. all this talk about mandatory helmets is a load of rubbish. if i am riding on my boards, i am accepting anything that may or may not happen, it is an extreme sport. i would rather die doing something i love than laid up in a hospital bed for months with an illness
    You're probably right that some people think wearing a helmet is going to be like being in the center of a 30 x 30 foot cube of memory foam, just like some people drive 70mph on the highway in 6 inches of snow because they have 4WD.

    Your head glances off a rock without a helmet, you get away with a nice gash, maybe worse. If you happened to be wearing a helmet, you get away dazed and thankful you wore a helmet. Of course, if you smash your head into a rock in such a way that your neck breaks, it's doubtful a helmet is going to protect you. As a skiboarder, or any sort of snowslider, you accept that your sport is inherently dangerous. I mean, I always joked about non-releasable bindings until I finally broke my damn leg in them. Releasables probably would've saved me a lot of money, pain, and the season, but by no means are they the fix-all.

    An ounce of prevention!

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    • #17
      Think it was two years ago we had a woman die on the bunny slope in New Mexico. Was learning to ski (no helmet) and had a very slow speed backwards fall. Hit her head at that was the end.

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      • #18
        Originally posted by TNTurt1e View Post
        Think it was two years ago we had a woman die on the bunny slope in New Mexico. Was learning to ski (no helmet) and had a very slow speed backwards fall. Hit her head at that was the end.
        Yeah, brain buckets save lives. No question there. It is true that some people become more reckless with them, but at that point, nothing is really going to help. If they're that comfortable with the helmet, they would eventually be that comfortable without. And I remember that accident too.
        I do it because I can.
        I can because I want to.
        I want to because you said I couldn't.

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