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NtrentT
10-05-2003, 10:17 PM
Quick question.
Ive been skiing for longer than I remember, Not lieing.
Ive never used a helmet.
When going to tucks, Should I?
I Know this is a Subjective Question but, Id like to see what you all think.
Id rather not, but if it meens keeping my brains where there suposto be, then Id get one.
Thanks All
skicdave
10-05-2003, 10:43 PM
Yup like M@'s says... yupper. Just too many rocks abound not too. Especially in the spring! You'll be happy looking down at the rocks below.
I bought my first helmet last year. Unbelievably light and warm as well.
Steveboarder
10-06-2003, 06:32 AM
Just bought my first helmet this weekend and it will be coming to :tucks: this year. I think the helmet thing is gonna take some getting used to but I have had too many close calls in the past with trees mostly.
Jolly J
10-06-2003, 07:17 AM
I started skiing with a helmet two years ago and have no complaints. I have a Giro Flint which is a motocross style helmet. I'd like to a lighter one for spring though. The Flint can get a little warm. However this past winter when it was -20 for a month it kept me toasty.
Bannick
10-06-2003, 08:29 AM
This will be my third season with a lid. Surprisingly it took very little to get used to.
It saved my brain twice at jay the first time I
used it and I will never go back. I want to pick
another one up with some more vents for the spring
but just removing the ear flaps cools things down quite a bit.
Trees and people swinging skis up onto their shoulders have taken me out too many times.
Though I think I may now ride even faster than
before so if I do hit a tree at full speed my
head will remian intact...maybe a full suit of
armour.....hmmmm.
Most definitely, go with a helmet but don't limit wearing one just for TR. Even if you could guarantee that you will never fall or run into anything, there are quite a few skiers and boarders who will run into you when you least expect it. :snowboarding:
Mumster
10-06-2003, 10:22 AM
I don't see any good reason why not to use a helmet. If you wreck your brain, it's gone forever. Brain cells don't regenerate.
If you wait until you have the injury to wish you had worn one, it's too late.
:helmet: save lives.
Jolly J
10-06-2003, 11:39 AM
Just to play devils ad. Last year we had a helmet related injury. It involved friends riding up to each other, caught his toe edge and went head first into his buddy. The guy flying through the air was wearing a helmet and hurt the guy who didn't. It actually broke the guys clavicle. The guys with the helmits were fine. :p They both laughed about it. This brings up another point. I hate people who stop above you.
Jolly J:
I hate people who stop above you. Me too.... I got a friend who's 6'8" and he always stops above me and I ALWAYS yell at him...
It just scares me to death... In fact I gave him a nickname - Tall Scarey Andy...
There are lots of skiing related things that a helmet helps for too. Last year I caught the bus back from the bottom of slide-brook, and while my buddy was taking his skis off the bus he swung them wrong and hit me in the noggin hard enough to knock me over. It scratched my chrome-dome helmet but didn't hurt me at all. If I hadn't had my brain-bucket on I'd probably have stickes there now.
SkiStooge
10-06-2003, 12:08 PM
But a helmet will mess up my 45 year old thinning hair!!! :cry: :cry: :cry: lol :skistooge:
Well, I'm sold! Skiing with a bucket...whoda thunk it? No doubt my Mrs. will be happier.
I climber i know with closes her posts with the signature, "My mother keeps asking that I take up an activity that doesn't require a helmet". My friend is a w/w boater, skydiver, caver, climber, bc/extreme skier and skater(both).
Hey Stoogie, think of it as R factor 15 for the thin spot. Having not much of the old natural R factor on top, I go in for hats.
Bannick
10-06-2003, 01:18 PM
M@:
hit me in the noggin hard enough to knock me over. It scratched my chrome-dome helmet but didn't hurt me at all. If I hadn't had my brain-bucket on I'd probably have stickes there now. I got beaned in the tram at Jay. dude with skis balanced against his shoulder while putting on his gloves...tram goes over tower...swings a bit...skis come forward get me right between the eyes...scratch to the chrome but no stitches. That same trip I cut my face up coming out of the trees busting through the brush but that amount of bleeding just adds to the k factor.
Skiers walking around with skis over their shoulders causes a ton of injuries... It really does...
I digress... A friend of mine got beaned in the noggin by a pair of skis attatched to the back of a person falling down the Headwall.. The guy attempted to snowshoe all the way up the climbing line... I yelled at him to take them off and he gave me a nasty look... Sure enough - 15 yards from the top - he fell backwards - with his skis attatched to his back.... idiot....
Jolly J
10-06-2003, 01:34 PM
DMC
In fact I gave him a nickname - Tall Scarey Andy... [/QB]I like your naming convention.
elwood
10-06-2003, 07:11 PM
DMC:
Skiers walking around with skis over their shoulders causes a ton of injuries... It really does... Whenever I walk a long distance with my skis off, I throw em over the shoulder. However, I ALWAYS look behind me before picking them up, and when putting them down, I just lean way back and drop the tails into the snow. I've NEVER hit anyone with my skis, and never will, because my system is foolproof. Anytime I am near people or in line or something, I don't sling 'em over the shoulder. Come on people, it's common courtesy...
kmrnskier
10-06-2003, 08:23 PM
[QUOTE]Originally posted by elwood:
Come on people, it's common courtesy...
EXACTLY!! I couldn't agree more.
NtrentT
10-06-2003, 08:27 PM
Thanks everyone for all the advice.
Looks like Ill be buying a helmet this year.
I never thought I would wear one.
But you all make a good point.
Thankx
elwood
10-06-2003, 11:05 PM
Helmet good. Head trauma bad.
NtrentT:
1. Ive been skiing for longer than I remember, Not lieing.
2. Ive never used a helmet.
If you take those two statements together, it is difficult to estimate your skiing ability or your age. (i.e. bad crash with no helmet can erase memories)
Jolly J
10-07-2003, 08:04 AM
For the most part falling doesn't hurt. Rapid Deceleration does.
BladeGirl
10-07-2003, 09:59 AM
It seems like many of the people on this board have also been skiing many years, and skiing Tux many years without a helmet, although they now wear helmets and express a convert's zeal for them. I guess its a matter of risk: there is little or no danger to wearing one, and more danger not wearing one. Like a seatbelt. For myself, I got my first helmet the end of last year (post season) and have yet to try it. Got it because I love the trees, and they finally make them light enough not to feel like a weight on my head and neck.
-BG
The helmet is simply protection, the seatbelt is also a useful tool. Seatbelts acutally help a driver control the car by keeping them in the driving seat. That is why I wear one while driving. I have been belted-in while driving since 1966. The seatbelt also protects occupants of motor vehicles, in that way acting much as a helmet.
I've been using seatbelts as a passenger since 1963 (the first year belts were available in our family car).
The helmet laws are wrongheaded due to defects as far as I am concerned...yeah, I know that's gonna boil some blood with our EMT's and Physicians. There are better, more comprehensive ways to deal with irresponsible behavior, ways that preserve hard won freedoms and safeguaurd the public.
Unfortunately we don't take the privilage of driving seriously enough here. Unbelted drivers are only recently paying any price for their irresponsibility, thanks in part to awareness prompted by the seat belt laws that seem otherwise wrongheaded to me. However, their coverage for medical care is largely unimpacted and their coverage for property damage is likewise unaffected. Fortunately, that is changing, again due to the awareness mentioned above. Hopefully the victims of unbelted drivers will not have their claims reduced, only the unbelted perpetrator's should be affected.
Worse, drunks get their licenses back after DUI, and that's just for starters. Motor vehicular homicide doesn't seem to deter the reissuance of a diving license.
Rant over...my appology to you all.
Bannick
10-07-2003, 10:47 AM
elwood:
I ALWAYS look behind me before picking them up, and when putting them down, I just lean way back and drop the tails into the snow. I've NEVER hit anyone with my skis, and never willyou are one of the good ones....but once you have checked around and thrown the planks over the shoulder do you look around before you turn to look around for your car/friends/poles...etc. It was getting so bad when I lived in whistler I got used to walking all hunched down from constantly having to duck out of the way. Good thing I am only five six so I didn't have to hunker down too much.
2plankerider
10-07-2003, 12:58 PM
kmrnskier:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by elwood:
Come on people, it's common courtesy...
EXACTLY!! I couldn't agree more. i think your average, or above average skier for that matter, is fully aware of such ettiquitte. BUT don't forget there is ALWAYS a SPORE factor :D (STOOPID PEOPLE ON RENTAL EQUIPMENT)
for the record, i highly recomend brain buckets. i've had one since about 94/95 (right around when another kennedy and sonny bono died)and no it was not because of them. got a killer deal in the spring. HALF PRICE you can NEVER go wrong. seeing as though i still use the same helmet ($45 bucks) i was SHOCKED to see some of the prices nowadays as i was curiously looking to replace it last spring. $125-$150 :eek: i'll keep using the one i have, thank you.
NHski
10-07-2003, 02:03 PM
If you take a bad digger and hit the helmet/head hard, you should replace the helmet.
Sierra Trading Post dot com sometimes has helmets (http://www.sierratradingpost.com/Search/keyword_results.asp?usersearch=helmet&ShowImages=yes) in the $30-$80 range.
I have a helmet... A Red forget what type...
I hate it... I've hate every helmet I've tried to ride with - don't know why... I think I just dont like wearing a helmet... I feel constricted and confined...
I DO wear the helmet... Not all the time - but at TUX for sure - or out west when I'm hucking..
Before everyone starts preaching - I've heard it all.... I know each and every reason why I should... I even know someone who died hitting a tree without a helmet(RIP Eric D.)..
I'll try again but I'm not promising anything...
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