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helmets for ski... Posted by Snowmobile [Email] (#686) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Snowmobile) on Tue, 14 Apr 2015 06:50:12 In Reply to: Jumping back in here..., Noel, Mon, 13 Apr 2015 16:59:30 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
this is one thing that is interesting to me... again, the helmets are designed primarily to protect against skull fractures, not concussions - it is still easy to get a concussion wearing a helmet. This is true for most sports that use helmets, and a topic of study here, particularly for football and hockey - how to design a helmet that actually reduces concussion risk!
So with skiing, how often do people get skull fractures? I've never heard of one, but it doesn't mean it couldn't happen. I can see the merits of helmets for big air, or extreme/backcountry, and of course for racing... but general recreational green/blue/black... I dunno. I think a lot of other injuries are more common, and all injuries are reduced by maintaining control and staying within one's abilities. I guess one real pro of the helmet in winter is warmth. Again, I've had a bazillion spectacular crashes (free skiing, jumps, racing)... never hit my head in any meaningful way... but again I may just have been lucky and bad things can happen at high speed I guess...
My worst head injuries have been from soccer where almost nobody wears head protection!
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