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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I was one of the anti until 3 years ago and besides when you are telling your child to wear one you really should set an example. I do not notice mine now and find it does keep my head warm without effecting hearing and vision. Would not ski without one now as was told tat mine actually saved me from serious head injuries
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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ineverusedtowearahelmetbutthenmymatesmatessister'shusbandbangedhishead....
and so on etc
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Perhaps a mod could move this to snownews and link to the primary source?
Ordhan, Thanks for posting this. I agree.
Hurtle, 
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Ordhan, stoatsbrother, it is a thread! Or at least it will soon be turned into one. And, as perhaps you are implying stoatsbrother, the Ski Club report does not exactly impart much hard information. (Btw, I wear a helmet, but have probably rehearsed enough times my reasons for doing so.)
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Helmets are for little kids, not big rufty tufty Zen skiers and boarders. Also, seatbelts and airbags don't reduce injuries in car accidents, smoking doesn't cause lung cancer and it's perfectly safe to pour water on a chip pan fire.
There. How's that ? 
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your choice its your head
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People who don`t wear helmets are bad foolish people who will got to h*ll. People who do wear helmets are lovely and good.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I wear a helmet and confidently expect to go to heaven (hopefully not following a skiing accident).
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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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I just studied my helmet, and can confirm that there is nothing new about it, apart from the wart on the end which has now sprouted a coarse black hair....
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Much as I dislike helmet threads and have barely posted on one yet...live and let live and all that.
...but this Ski Club report really highlights what I most dislike about glib statistics... Joe Punter thinks he's 15% safer wearing a helmet... but he isn't, is he?
I would presume that this is 15% of incidents that had some head form impact ? In itself some smaller number of incidents on the slopes would relate to the head, I guess, compared to say wrist, hand, leg injurys. Also turn this around, it might imply that in 85% of cases, where some form of head impact occurred, the helmet did not prevent injury ( though it might have reduced the severity of injury...)
http://www.mindkicker.com/?p=80 this link gives more details...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18277163 - and this seems to link the orginal texts... where the decisive conclusion is "Helmets may provide some protection from head injury among skiers and snowboarders involved in falls or collisions"
ah, balls, I wish i hadn't gotten involved!
(I am a helmet wearer, btw)
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You know it makes sense.
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Richie_S, er, quite.
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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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LOL, I love a good helmet thread, I just can't suss out why there's anyone bothers arguing against them.
Richie, I am a helmet wearer too. I wish like with the smoking which I once enjoyed, I could maintain that happy feeling of immortality I had when I was in my teens and twenties but now that I'm an old git and more than ever enjoy hopping between patches of ice and rock amongst some of Scotland's finest mountains, or like ten days ago, dropping off a cornice at the back of Nevis or like last week finding fresh tracks amongst St Anton's finest routes, I actually feel safer with it on my head. As my experience has grown, I realise now that by far the biggest danger around me on piste isn't my own complacency but is the out of control pillock who could easily break my skull in an instant. And as my skiing continues to progress away from the piste to terrain where a fall doesn't neccessarily end in the security of snow, I feel less vulnerable with a helmet, not 15 % less vulnerable, just less vulnerable. Also it keeps my head warm, keeps the goggles ever-ready, is somewhere to attach my helmet camera and stops my ears getting skin cancer. 
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Poster: A snowHead
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Just been shopping, in heavy and sleety snow. My helmet kept my head dry in the street, and when I was waiting in the queue in the butchers, played me "Jauchzet Frohlocket" from Bach's Christmas Oratorio. It also kept me going earlier, in a totally deserted snowy landscape, across a four chairlift journey without one other single figure going in any direction, up or down, with the Scissors Sisters. Wouldn't be without it.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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wear a helmet if you want to, if you don't want to then don't
i'm happy my own and my loved ones' arrangements around this subject
can we leave it at that....FOREVER
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michaelc, its the only way to go to get an accurate study !
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I got an email from Parlor today...I'll leave him to fill in the details (or not) but suffice to say he had a major stack "thanks god for full face helmets"
The prosecution rests m'lud.
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| can we leave it at that....FOREVER |
threads about helmets are less painful than threads about where to find guaranteed snow for Christmas within an hour of Geneva airport with a picturesque village and swinging apres.
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rungsp, yeah, but he's a telemarker and therefore needs something to stop himself from poking his eyes out with his ski tips
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| pam w wrote: |
| where to find guaranteed snow for Christmas within an hour of Geneva airport with a picturesque village and swinging apres. |
Could you also add in reasonably priced food & drink and a hot tub and i'm there!! 
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Helmets are so 2007. In the coming season, the discerning skier is going to wear a stab vest.
You can't be too careful with all those Brits on cheap holidays.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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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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You know it makes sense.
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| horizon wrote: |
Helmets are so 2007. In the coming season, the discerning skier is going to wear a stab vest.
You can't be too careful with all those Brits on cheap holidays. |
Have a word with Harriet Harman. I hear she`s got one going cheap.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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| pam w wrote: |
| ...swinging apres. |
Why does every thread have to be about the E0SB? (Before Megamum starts to worry too much, you don't have to change partner every night, but most girls throw their room keys into the bowl anyway)
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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WTFH, look at many of the comments in this thread and ask yourself if irony is the most responsible course of action
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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horizon, it's ok, I put my helmet on when I made the post.
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If one researches the skiers' injuries and compare those who worn bacl protectors with those who didn't one also finds the back protector help to lower the back injuries too.
Should we all wear a back protector?
It is like comparing a sample of population who ski with those don't ski and concludes skiing is dangerous because there are more injuries in the first sample.
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I've got a so called back protector that I use for horse riding - however unlike the ones frequently used for skiing or motorcycling this 'back protector' is more like a flack jacket and provides protection all around the torso overlapping and fastening with velcro at the sides and shoulders. As far as I see this is the usual form of jacket worn by horse riders. I'm surprised that the protectors used by skiers and motorcyclists only literally cover the back as I wouldn't have said of the three pursuits that horse riding was the most potentially dangerous. In fact I would consider a back protector for skiing if I found one cheap enough to afford - I should actually wear one: I wear my horse riding one every time I get on a horse due to breaking my back in a riding accident when I was about 20. I've fallen since whilst wearing it and it makes a fall 'easy' in comparison to tumbles I've previously taken without it.
The above brings me to an interesting point which I will post in a different thread.
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abc, Unfortunately I think the horse riding protector may be a little too restrictive to ski in.
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