 Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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fatbob, who is "disappointed"?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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recent surveys showed that in countries where a law was brought in to make it compulsory to wear a helmet when cycling, that head injuries reduced, but the cycle chappie opposing the argument pointed out that this only happened because the number of people cycling reduced by a third, and that the helmets only protected against low impact accidents, and the third who stopped cycling probably suffered health problems from getting lardy 
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Helmets should be compulsory.
Imagine you and your high end intermediate ski group, who didn't use a travel company but diy'd thank you very much, are pinned down by sniper fire in La Ros, on a red run (but it should have been a black , did you see those bumps), from a waiter they didn't tip sufficiently.
With a helmet waved from the top of a ski pole, whose length exactly conforms to you gripping the pole beneath the basketwith your arm at 90*, you could provide an effective diversion whilst one of the party slipped off to look for the SCGB guide who could provide covering fire - so long as it didn't entail him heading off piste.
Common sense really.
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I wear a helmet and one fall I had last winter made me glad I do. However I don't think they should be compulsory.
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but surely when wearing a helmet you take more risks
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but surely when wearing a helmet it messes up your hair 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| Schuss in Boots wrote: |
| but surely when wearing a helmet it messes up your hair |
What hair?
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| jbob wrote: |
| Any one know if the place in Canada, Trembler or something is any good. |
Yeah it is. Nice place great skiing and awesome nights out, enjoy yourself if you go
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Schuss in Boots, yeah that's a real PITA. I've found that using the gel designed for hoodies seems to work...the spikes just spring back as soon as you remove said helmet. Result  Problem is, you can't actually do much skiing since if you sweat too much, it'll reset your hairdo as "helmet hair".
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Mosha Marc, I'm afraid your money would have been better spent on a grenade than a helmet. This has three key advantages:
1) You don't have to involve the SCGB, which naturally wouldn't look good on your trip report.
2) Even if you are unable to take out the restaurant sniper, you would doubtless set off an avalanche, which you could ride like a surfer, precipitating a far quicker get away.
3) A grenade will fit comfortably in your pocket as it is much smaller than the quite lumersome helmet.
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Poster: A snowHead
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If your an idiot; surely you have less to protect 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Lechbob, us idiots need to preserve the few neurones we have left. Smart people have spares.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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stoatsbrother, I know what you mean
But there are the simple, the senile & just plain nutters. Not wearing a helmet is part of the natural selection process & thus should be optional.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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My view is that some people who wear helmets think is then Ok to ski / board like a lunatic.
I will always believe that wearing a helmet reduces your peripheral vision and reduces hearing effectiveness.
If you are scared of banging your head, either get better technique, slow down or find another sport if you insist on being reckless on the slopes.
So its a definite NO from me
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How about enforced Sumo suits too, just in case of a bump
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arlberg,
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If you are scared of banging your head, either get better technique, slow down or find another sport if you insist on being reckless on the slopes.
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So your attitude is that helmets should be banned. Interesting.
Should motorcycle and cycling helmets be banned as well (your argument I think would apply to them as well).
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Unless you have eyes like a frog I don't understand the peripheral vision argument, and if there is any sound attenuation it seems to be no greater than that of your average hat, boo-boo 
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| Mosha Marc wrote: |
Helmets should be compulsory.
Imagine you and your high end intermediate ski group, who didn't use a travel company but diy'd thank you very much, are pinned down by sniper fire in La Ros, on a red run (but it should have been a black , did you see those bumps), from a waiter they didn't tip sufficiently.
With a helmet waved from the top of a ski pole, whose length exactly conforms to you gripping the pole beneath the basketwith your arm at 90*, you could provide an effective diversion whilst one of the party slipped off to look for the SCGB guide who could provide covering fire - so long as it didn't entail him heading off piste.
Common sense really. |
you could lay down fire whilst your other half of the section pepper pot moving forward, fire through the enemy and re-group the other side
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| skisimon wrote: |
Mosha Marc, I'm afraid your money would have been better spent on a grenade than a helmet. This has three key advantages:
1) You don't have to involve the SCGB, which naturally wouldn't look good on your trip report.
2) Even if you are unable to take out the restaurant sniper, you would doubtless set off an avalanche, which you could ride like a surfer, precipitating a far quicker get away.
3) A grenade will fit comfortably in your pocket as it is much smaller than the quite lumersome helmet. |
I think that this may actually be quite dangerous. I once took a fall on a steep section of hardpack with a grenade in my chest pocket. The resulting bruise took two weeks to reduce in size and my ribs were almost broken.
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Scarpa, you crazy dude
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FAQ
(a skid lid saved my bonce in a motorbike incident in which I also landed on my back some 30+ years ago). Ski helmets are pretty light so I wouldn't think inertia would be much of a problem 
The same dangers could equally be applied to 
