i wear armor even tho i'm a newb like i'm doing wheelie drops skinnies and some small drops because i just feel safer and i like it when i can just get up and go when i fall (gloves shin/knee pad helmet ofcourse and sometimes elbow)
only if you have been crashing and hurting yourself a lot and feel that you need it although if you do not crash regularily then you are not pushing yourself enoughth personnally i like a pot lid helmet fingerless gloves and clear glasses
if u crash regularily then u suck balls cause i push myself eveyday and barley crash and im not that good
only if you have been crashing and hurting yourself a lot and feel that you need it although if you do not crash regularily then you are not pushing yourself enoughth personnally i like a pot lid helmet fingerless gloves and clear glasses
if u crash regularily then u suck balls cause i push myself eveyday and barley crash and im not that good
Order of Importance (in my Opinion) Helmet Gloves Knee/Shin Upper Body (Spine and torso/forarm and elbow) Goggles
IMO Helmet Goggles ( contacts get dry and glasses wont work well for me and not being able to see while riding isnt a good idea) Knee/Shin (buddy got 15 stiches b/c he was riding w/o them) Upper body gloves
I never once claimed that armour prevented or reduced breakage injuries. Re-read the posts. My objection to the previous poster was his unsupportable claim that as body armour would have done nothing to prevent injuries in his accidents, we could all then assume that armour was "useless".
Fair enough, I think there was a misunderstanding as to what each of us was talking about.
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You're right, that's completely irrelevant.
Yeah, I was just referring to what another poster had said earlier.
shin gaurds are the most used and most important pice of protection for me. I would have the most hideous legs ever if all the cuts on my shin gaurds ended up on my shins.
Fair enough, I think there was a misunderstanding as to what each of us was talking about.
And fair enough to you as well...I re-read my posts from yesterday, and I believe I may have been having an attack of early onset male P.M.S.. I may have been a bit bitchy. (ok , very bitchy) but I do stand by my opinions. Anyhow, cheers.
Shin guards are the most important thing after the helmet... I usually wear my sixsixone pressure suit though. However i separated my shouler half a year ago wearing it, it doesn't always save you, maybe spine protection is the most important part of it
Pads can stop a variety of fractures. The really - and I mean REALLY - big impact fractures can't really be stopped by anything much. Falling 20 foot onto your leg isn't going to improve it, knee pads or no. However, these crashes are rare. It's far more likely that a broken leg could occur by a hefty impact square with a rock, clean on the shin. This could easily be prevented by hardshell armour.
This is particularly relevant to the spine: breaking your back Aaron Chase-style, where the spine is broken by a perpendicular impact, would easily be prevented by backbone protection. The same rule applies though: a massive impact through the neck or head, Stephen Murray-style, is both unpreventable (although if you plan on continuing to exist after this happens, a helmet is advisory) and very, very serious.
well i broke my wrist by falling 20 feet or more onto my arm. i was wearing hardshell armour too. it didnt really help! but i dont really hold that against it because the only thing that would have saved me would have been 10 feet deep of mattressess.
and thats all, still contemplating the pressure suit. Maybe if i got upper body armor i wouldn't get something big like the 661 pressure suit, maybe something a little lighter like an axo or a fox armour.
and thats all, still contemplating the pressure suit. Maybe if i got upper body armor i wouldn't get something big like the 661 pressure suit, maybe something a little lighter like an axo or a fox armour.
any thoughts?
cheers
I think there's lots of options from lots of smaller companies too, Google around.