Personally I've never understood land boarders that don't wear helmets. A good portion of wrecks involve landing on your back under power, the back of
your skull is soft and all it would take is a rock the size of an egg to kill you.
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Great video but yeah, I have helped load a lot of busted riders (no helmets) in the back of ambulances. Several times we heard later that the family
had to pull the plug on life support. These were often pretty low velocity incidents and Like Highazakite said, involved the back of the head.
I will not publish photos of un-capped riders on my site.
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Originally posted by acampbell
Great video but yeah, I have helped load a lot of busted riders (no helmets) in the back of ambulances. Several times we heard later that the family
had to pull the plug on life support. These were often pretty low velocity incidents and Like Highazakite said, involved the back of the head.
I will not publish photos of un-capped riders on my site.
Angus are you talking bikes/motorcycles or ATB/buggy accidents when it comes to pulling the plug? Yikes.
I wouldn't ATB without my helmet. Don't have enough brain cells to spare as it is.
Aw come on, anyone with half a brain know that these guys consider themselves professional and that posing, promoting themselves as "kewl" and
indestructible is part of their job ... surely people don't need to be told to wear safety gear when learning a new sport with the potential for
bodily harm?
Originally posted by acampbell
Great video but yeah, I have helped load a lot of busted riders (no helmets) in the back of ambulances. Several times we heard later that the family
had to pull the plug on life support. These were often pretty low velocity incidents and Like Highazakite said, involved the back of the head.
I will not publish photos of un-capped riders on my site.
Angus are you talking bikes/motorcycles or ATB/buggy accidents when it comes to pulling the plug? Yikes.
I wouldn't ATB without my helmet. Don't have enough brain cells to spare as it is.
The venue was New YorS-P-A-M-L-I-N-K-s Central Park and the accidents were with rollerbladers and cyclists usually. I did 10 years volunteer work with
the Central Park Skate Patrol. We did safety clinics and patrolled the 10k loop of the park, often giving braking lessons to people having trouble on
the hills.
We were often the first on scene at accidents and called them in with Nextel radios dialed in to the Central Park Medical Unit and the Central Park
Police Precinct. A lot of relative high speed bike accidents with mangled bikes, cuts and maybe broken bones but they usually had helmets and were OK
in the end. The handful of deaths over those years were usually in low speed accidents with skaters with no helmets falling and hitting the back of
the head.
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Originally posted by Kamikuza
surely people don't need to be told to wear safety gear when learning a new sport with the potential for bodily harm?
yeah they do.
I once had a (would be) skating student tell me that he will not wear a helmet because "I have a bad back that I do not want to hurt, so skating
without a helmet will force me to be more careful..."
He did not get a lesson.
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I once had a (would be) skating student tell me that he will not wear a helmet because "I have a bad back that I do not want to hurt, so skating
without a helmet will force me to be more careful..."
He did not get a lesson.
wtf? that is the strangest response to an honest request ive ever heard...
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sure the guys got mad skills, but his lack of helmet has turned this thread into a safety thread instead of a "damb that was good" thread.
personally i wear a helmet 90% of the time but the 10% is a judgement call.
Angus - I was being faseeshus ... phacetious ... a smart arse :frog:
Wolfee - I consider myself a professional too but if I walked into the class with a helmet on there'd be riot :singing: pro-athletes are supposed to be super-human photogenic idols ... ever see a fat ugly
pro athlete? Erm outside of sumo?
Phree - I hear that!
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Originally posted by McDuck
Nice vid! Can we please not make every thread a "wear your helmet" thread? Do I need a helmet while eating pie?
If you can't see the image this post makes no sense.
Only responses to that pie remark might get me censored.:piggy:
I think he read the posting. Next vid he wore a lid. Looks like he was planing to alot bigger, maybe that is why. Nice riding, I am still trying to
get comfortable jumping with my ATB. I did a 360 without my board the other day on accident. It was cool and worth the grass stains I ended up
with.:roll:
Guys, I want to share a story with everyone on here. It is just not worth taking a chance to not wear a helmet. I have always been a firm believer in
wearing helmets and always will be. Last year around this time I was in a motorcycle accident that statistically I should have been seriously injured
if not killed. I was stopped in the street ready to make a left hand turn into the parking lot at work, when a driver ran a red light at an
intersection about 3 blocks away, changed lanes at the last minute and rear ended me. I was at a complete stop and based on the Police report the car
impacted me at 45-50 mph. The motorcycle was ejected from under me and I played human pinball off the ladies car. I was later told from an eyewitness
at an adjacent business that I rolled backwards over the car hood, up the windshield and off the roof of the car on the driver side, landing on my
left shoulder and hip. Fortunately, I only ended up with whiplash, a sprained left collar bone, a raised lump on my left hip that I still have today
and a few scrapes and bruises. I was wearing a helmet, riding boots, and jacket with CE rated body armor. My helmet was scratched deeply and face
shield was shattered when it impacted the car. The ER doctor was amazed of the job that the body armor did. He said my shoulder and hip should have
been shattered. I will stop now and get to the point, safety is not something that should be taken lightly. If there is a helmet designed for the
activity it should always be worn. ALWAYS WEAR HELMETS.
I'm still not sure why my images don't show up even after I preview them and they're looking fine. Anyway, helmets are important but I get really
sick of going into a thread of someone's video or pictures and instead of commenting on the content there are endless posts about how the guy isn't
wearing a helmet. It just makes it a chore to read through them.
I wear a helmet when I'm riding/flying, it's important. If you feel like you want to make helmet comments please just U2U the submitter.
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