 Poster: A snowHead
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Just a quick question, does anyone still ski/snowboard without a helmet? As for myself, on my second ever ski trip, I took a tumble and gave myself a minor concussion. After that I've always worn a lid. I remember a few years ago being on a lift in Canada, and right from the start had some young lads taking the mickey out of myself and an American gentleman by the side of me also wearing a lid, basically saying how much of a pair of wimps we were in quite colourful vernacular. I didn't rise to the bait, but the American gent replied, in a slow Texan drawl "Yeah guys, I wear a crash-hat because, you know, having to re-learn your basic motor skills is such a cool thing to do..."
Silence for the rest of the ride.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Yes, I do. I bought one a few years ago, and tried wearing it a couple of times, but I hated it.
I confess that it is a bit silly not to wear one, but I just much prefer the greater sense of freedom/exposure to the elements.
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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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@MajorQ, have you tried searching 'helmets' on here? Good luck and I hope your supplies of popcorn don't run out. Also congratulations - i think yours may be the first helmet thread of this season. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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@boredsurfin, or Geneva car hire - Swiss or French? …
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Or winter tyres … oh, no, wait, that’s already started 
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Like most old skiers I grew up before helmet wearing and when they became generally available saw them as something for the beginners who wore them. We veterans skiing off piste didn't bother. However, as those beginners became experts, still wearing them, most of us slowly and perhaps reluctantly took them up. I had head butted a few banks, mostly suffering a sore neck as consequence, twice with tingling in the arms from squashed nerves. On a trip to Canada it was required of us by our guide but mine didn't fit well and I gave up on it. Then our favourite guide started wearing one and my wife persuaded me to do it too. At first I didn't like it, but now I am used to wearing it and just take it off to skin and sometimes if it is very hot.
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@snowball,
+1, think we are about the same vintage.
About 2 weeks after starting wearing one I had a heavy crash on a hard piste and felt a significant concussion throughout the helmet. That had me thinking what if I hadn't had it on and not taken it off since (unless, as you say, skinning).
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Oh dear, here we go again. Been a while, but might be a welcome break from the politics related crap.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Started with snowboarding before switching to skiing so always wore a helmet. Definitely saved my noggin a few times after heel edge catches. Might have also helped with a few ski crashes on hard pistes as well (although ski crashes tend to be a bit more 'confusing' than snowboard crashes as you have limbs/skis/poles going in all different directions. Helmet definitely helped with getting hit by safety bars on chairlifts quite a few times (though suppose you could argue that wearing a helmet makes you more likely to get hit by it).
Definitely in France helmet wearing seems to be 80-90% now even though it isn't compulsory. When I am in group lessons everyone seems to wear a helmet and generally it tends to just be the instructor not wearing one if anyone (though usually attentive enough to point out if people have forgotten to clip up the strap on their helmet).
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Edge angles. Is a 3 deg best for snowploughing? 
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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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I just love helmet posts - best fun on here. 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Kinda weird - feel a bit naked without one now. Even indoors where I didn't use to bother until they became mandatory.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@Dave of the Marmottes, indoors? Do you wear it at home?
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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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@Dave of the Marmottes, indoors? Do you wear it at home?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I’m 50/50. Depends how sendy I’m feeling.
Just about to jump on a lift. Soft spring snow, no crowds, sunny and warm. Won’t bother wearing a lid today.
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| ster wrote: |
| @Dave of the Marmottes, indoors? Do you wear it at home? |
Obvs. With an airbag to use on the stairs.
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Even newbie Pisteurs are wearing them now in Tignes, the last bastion falls!
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@Dave of the Marmottes, probably wise, you can't be too safe, rather than sorry.
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| ManiaMuse wrote: |
| (though suppose you could argue that wearing a helmet makes you more likely to get hit by it). |
In my case, every time. So if you want an awkward 5-6 minutes, just give no warning and whack me in the helmet with a big 'ol steel bar, and I'll give it to you.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Abusing people for their own choice on a chair is dick behaviour.
I dont wear one, but its entirely up to adults what they do on the piste, as long as it doesnt impact other people.
(to make a contrary point to mine above, I would outlaw these backpack speakers blasting out French diskopop  )
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| ster wrote: |
| @Dave of the Marmottes, indoors? Do you wear it at home? |
I realize you're joking but I think my helmets saved me more hard off the snow than on it! More than once I've felt the smack on my helmet (behave!) from the skis of someone walking with their skis on their shoulder and just turning around to talk to a friend with zero spacial awareness.
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@Mjit, most of my dents are from exactly that
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You know it makes sense.
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Have the turtle crash pads made it to Europe yet?
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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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Poster: A snowHead
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They are really common in NZ, along with matching knee pads and helmet covers. Someone got rich.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| hang11 wrote: |
| They are really common in NZ, along with matching knee pads and helmet covers. Someone got rich. |
You must be joking, next they'll be skiing in zorbs. How do you sit on chairlifts properly wearing one?
And I find it hard to beleive that they came out of the USA as most there don't need much padding around the rear end, they are usual well-endowed there already.
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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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I do know, as do all my skiing friends, bar 1 I think. As with those that started back in the day, I never used to, though, made my stepchildren wear them. I did kind of resist when they started to become more popular. Then took the plunge, as I/we seemed to be outnumbered by those that did. I wont ski without one now (nor would I cycle without a helmet, even before wearing one skiing). I do still wear sunglasses with the helmet though, I might go full kool and buy goggles
Its kind or ironic as I hated wearing any hat when skiing no matter how cold, in Europe anyway.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| hang11 wrote: |
| Have the turtle crash pads made it to Europe yet? |
Yes, I’ve definitely seen these.
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| ster wrote: |
| hang11 wrote: |
| They are really common in NZ, along with matching knee pads and helmet covers. Someone got rich. |
You must be joking, next they'll be skiing in zorbs. How do you sit on chairlifts properly wearing one?
And I find it hard to beleive that they came out of the USA as most there don't need much padding around the rear end, they are usual well-endowed there already. |
Most people wearing them tend to be using a conveyor lift
They also come in different flavours - I’ve seen bears, turtles, unicorns (possibly donkeys). It’s like a bloody fluffy zoo around the beginner slopes on weekends.
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| Scarlet wrote: |
| hang11 wrote: |
| Have the turtle crash pads made it to Europe yet? |
Yes, I’ve definitely seen these. |
There was a little girl maybe 6 or 7 absolutely shredding Chill Factore on a board with her turtle kneepads at the Oktobertest.
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| ster wrote: |
| @Dave of the Marmottes, indoors? Do you wear it at home? |
Only in the bedroom
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Talking about feeling naked now without one: when doing up seat belts had become automatic when driving and I first returned to cycling after a very long gap, it briefly felt wrong not to be wearing a seatbelt. 
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FWIW I'm still in the no-helmet camp, except when instructing. It's expected that instructors wear them as an example to kids, so I'll go along with it. I don't wear one when cycling either.
Woolly hats, by the way, are cool. Well, mine is, anyway. 
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