Skiers and Riders Who Wear Helmets Still Die

[dmc]

True, dmc. But also painfully obvious.


I'm going to start a new thread with the title- "the sun will still rise in the East tomorrow."

If it deosn't... were screwed...

 

[jaywbigred]

I don't want to start a long helmet thread

Good job on that one buddy!! I don't want to start a fire but I am going to poor some gas all over this couch and throw these lit matches on it.

 

[Method9455]

Method9455, using your example, what if instead of the ski hitting you in the back of the head, the ski hit you in the neck under your chin and cut your carotid artery. You would have bleed out in seconds and that helmet would not have saved you one bit. What if the guy who fell and lost his skis took more lessons and never fell in the first place. Maybe more lessons and more emphasis on being in control would have a more positive outcome on overall ski industry safety.

It would seem that most people here believe that everyone wearing a helmet in a car should be mandatory but car driving lessons are optional. :blink:

Thats ridiculous. Sure it COULD have hit me in the neck, or it could have hit me in the leg, or I COULD have gotten struck by lightning while buying a helmet. Or I COULD get killed by a drunk driver on my way to buy a helmet so obviously I shouldn't wear a helmet because it can't protect me from EVERYTHING.

A helmet protects you from a limited set of serious injuries but does not prevent all serious injuries or death. But in my book that $60-$100 is worth it, because I know for a fact it has saved me from 2 major injuries, and a litany of minor ones. Almost anyone who wears a helmet at some time or another gets protected from at least a minor injury, even if its a just a bump on the head. That is worth it.

As someone who bought a helmet and bought a private lesson this year, I have to say your theory is wrong. The helmet cost me $80, the lesson cost me $300+ , lessons are not more cost effective. And while a lesson could make me safer (mine made me less safe because they where park lessons, so now I try even bigger things that I need a helmet for even more), no amount of lessons in the world could ever protect me from what happened that time I got hit in the head by someone else.


On the same token, my biggest fear is knocking out my teeth and looking like a hick, but I won't wear one of those full fask mask helmets because I feel like they would torque your neck backwards, trading a minor injury for a major one. Thats why I don't want them to ever make helmets mandatory, because they will then mandate type of helmets too, and like everything else there is no one size fits all solution. But for me, I'll always be wearing a helmet. Your not wearing a helmet does not endanger me so it doesn't matter, but I do not want new people to be encouraged to avoid them.

 

[SKIQUATTRO]

just think, if the sun doesnt come up tomorrow, the snow wont melt!