Wrist guards

I have just bought a pair for boarding. I was surprosed when i got them to learn that the stiff bar is to be worn on the inside of the palm.

I would have thought that when you fall over the wrist would bend backwards rather than forwards?

Any experience....Trencher? :wink:

When you hook up your edge and face plant into the snow (it WILL happen), ideally your hands go down first. Decent wrist guards will be the first contact with the ground, thus absorbing a good chunk of the impact.

Thus they are worn on the inside of the palm.

If you can, get into the habit of clenching fists and landing on your forearms.

Good luck...

Wrist gaurds for skating, skateboarding etc generally have pastic stiffners above and below the hand. The guards for snowboarding mostly only have the palm stiffner, but as your hand is bound to it by the glove part. they seem to work well.

Gloves with built in wrist guards are great (again only one stiffner). Just make sure you wear leather glove protectors over them if using a tow rope.

Trencher

Hey Trencher I used to live in Minnesota; place in the back beyond up country from Grand Marais on the Canadian border....

chaletslovakia wrote:
Hey Trencher I used to live in Minnesota; place in the back beyond up country from Grand Marais on the Canadian border....

Sent you a pm. Minnesotans are always able to find other Minnesotans.

Trencher

Does that mean trencher that I am really likely to be bending my wrist forwards rather than backwards like I would have thought you would?

As you can probably guess this is my first time boarding.

Will I look a bit of an idiot the first day with them on? Do they affect doing up bindings?

:oops:

I'm assuming you have some thing like the above Dakine type (which goes inside your gloves).

This will stop your wrist bending backwards and absorb some of the impact from a fall. You should loose no dexterity with this type.

As for looking like a fool. You're only as much of a fool as you feel. You will fall down a lot, but you will be learning a lot. The balance, fine weight control and fine edge control will give you a whole new perspective and feed back into your skiing.

The only reservation I would have in your shoes, is if the conditions are rock hard ice. Then it might be a little brutal. When I was learning, I went out on some days when you could have used ice skates - painful.


Trencher

Yes they are the exact type that I have got, they fit snugly under my glove.

The reports say "hard Packed" is that the painful stuff? :roll: