Due to the deep snow pack in S NH, I took a couple of head shots from low hanging branches in the glades in the last couple of days. Glad that I could duck a little and take it off the helmet. Its warm and comfortable, don't even think about not using it.
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Do you wear a helmet?
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VTKilarney
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You are making this all about you when it should be about your students. If you are teaching my child I expect you to teach safety by example. Safety is just as important a lesson as learning how to make a wedge. Kids are going to want to emulate their instructor. I'd like to think that your not so fragile that you can keep a helmet on your head even if it makes you a little warm. But in your world the instructor can't be inconvenienced in the slightest. That's just unacceptable and they must maintain their honor by being a quitter. Simple as that!!!
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Cannonball
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I wasn't really agreeing with you in this thread, but figured to each their own. But hearing that a ski school program at a mountain is actually, expressly ANTI-helmet is just insane! What other safety features is your program against?
Smellytele
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bigbog
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Use Smith's Variance. Works well yet I'll put a mod to it(probably void the warranty;-)) but make much more comfortable instead of just the single hard(high-density) foam.
abc
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That's the best argument
I walk from my office to my car without helmet. I walk from the far edge of the parking lot to the mall entrance without helmet. I also don't see any single person in any of those parking lot wearing helmet. Right now, the parking lots are full of ice and snow..
If Richardson falls on a parking lot, would she had died? Quite likely!
So, any of you wear a helmet going to the mall? When you do, I will wear one teaching beginners!
II'll come back to this thread in a couple decade to see who took up that challenge!!!
abc
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Just anti-mandatory-helmet, as far as I know.
There's difference in anti-something vs anti-mandatory that same thing.
I admit I unfortunately live in a society where a large group of people can't tell that difference! Sad, but true.
For Pete's sake abc will you please think of the children! Maybe you can shave your head and get a helmet tattoo.
Bostonian
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After knocking myself out a couple of years ago and having my helmet on... I never ski without it. Not worth the risk
C-Rex
New member
How long before people start wearing HANS devices and spine protectors too? The downhill biking community has seen a big surge in their use.
I believe snowmonster wore a spine protector when he skied. He also did a lot of solo BC type stuff, so I could see his desire for extra protection.
VTKilarney
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False analogy. When you are walking to hang out in the mall you aren't acting as a role model and educator of children. You chose to be a teacher. You should start acting like one.
dlague
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Hey you are on to something! We need to have the government get in on this debate and mandate people wear helmets all the time while walking around not just in action sports!
Ive taken some falls on my driveway I wish I had been wearing a helmet......Bottom line its your head.....do with it what you want !
I shoveled my roof tonight.......so as to not be a hypocrite I wore my helmet just for ABC !
Hawkshot99
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gmcunni
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ha.. .with recent headlines indicating teachers are molesting children in schools setting a bad example by not wearing a helmet doesn't seem so bad
abc
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The false analogy is yours.
I'm not an "educator". I'm paid as little as a nanny and have responsibility as such! They learned to ski too, BTW.
Even if I were paid as much as a teacher, there're still area I'm not expected to be a "role model". If I'm teaching math, I'm NOT a role model with my bad writing. And vice verse.
Role model? It's up to the parents to teach them who to model after on which behavior, rather than automatically model after EVERY BEHAVIOR of whomever they drop their kids off at.
There lies the mistake too many parents make! They blame sports figure or other celebrity for their bad behavior that would negatively influence their children! For god's sake, those are entertainers! (to some degree, so am I, to entertain your kid for 90 min).
So, tell your kids WHY they must wear a helmet when others don't. Or tell them they have to because you say so. A positive influence is nice add-on, but any parent who rely on such random "influence" as the primary source for shaping the kids' behavior will likely be disappointed.
Perhaps you can tip your kid's ski instructor extra when they DO wear a helmet? Now that you know it takes extra effort to do so.
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billski
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I draw the line at wearing a helmet in bed. 
VTKilarney
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