 Poster: A snowHead
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Bode Swiller, so you are suggesting it's just better not to ski  |
No, I'm suggesting that people learn to ski. Put it this way, if you find yourself having glancing blows with your head against trees (often given as a reason for wearing one) then you have no idea what you are doing because one of those close encounters might turn into a more serious impact. If you are skiing a line where your arms or shoulders are glancing off trees then you should start thinking "maybe I'm getting too close to the tree, derrr...". The answer isn't to put a helmet on, the answer is to adjust the behaviour that puts your body and especially your head, in harms way in the first place. You can ski trees safely without putting your head into contact with them.
As for people who lose control on the piste and smack full-on into a tree on the side of the piste (as often happens in North America), well that has an outcome that won't be changed by wearing a helmet or not so the answer isn't a helmet. The trouble with the helmet promoters is that they only ever put forward one answer and that's their product, and most people, the media especially, suck it up and re-promote the idea from the point of view of almost total ignorance.
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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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Very interesting article, Bode Swiller.
I don't wear a helmet because I don't like wearing helmets. After reading this article I shall continue to avoid trees and look out for drunk out-of-control snow users. I think I'll be alright.
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I'm going to be using the helment this season after years of the hat.
It's not so much that I'm going to be (not!) colliding with trees/rock/lift machinery whatever.
The problem is indeed the other out of control/outside their competance/speed merchants skiers making it a misery for the rest.
Add in the Gopro wearers filming others while not looking where they are going....
Not to mention those who take off their skis, put them on their shoulders and promptly turn round without looking.
Me slipping/tripping on the steps down to the hotel ski/boot store.
So I'm guarding aginst the "minor" injury rather than the major/fatal one
The worst example of bad skiing I ever saw was a class lined up on the edge of the piste, instructor facing them a few yards away as is normal...and a snowboarder goes down the gap between them at full speed.
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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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I don't believe I've ever seen a mountain guide wearing one, for what that's worth.
