The Ski Helmet Debate

Ian Wickham wrote:

Tony_H wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:

Stewart Dowling wrote:Thanks Tony for kindly showing off my 1939 - 1945 attire, cooly brought into the 21st Century with the additional of a TNF logo.

I will post the picture some time later when I find it of you wearing a helmet too in SC.

Needless to say you dont like as cool as me.

Ring ding ding ding

I can't wait to see Tony with a lid :lol:

Sat on a bus, half cut, helmet perched on my head. It was not being worn on the slopes, thanks. Me like bobbles.

I'm glad to hear it, for one moment I thought I was alone against the lid brigade :lol:

tino_11 wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:

Tony_H wrote:

Ian Wickham wrote:

Stewart Dowling wrote:Thanks Tony for kindly showing off my 1939 - 1945 attire, cooly brought into the 21st Century with the additional of a TNF logo.

I will post the picture some time later when I find it of you wearing a helmet too in SC.

Needless to say you dont like as cool as me.

Ring ding ding ding

I can't wait to see Tony with a lid :lol:

Sat on a bus, half cut, helmet perched on my head. It was not being worn on the slopes, thanks. Me like bobbles.

I'm glad to hear it, for one moment I thought I was alone against the lid brigade :lol:

you are not alone Wickers, although I must say I wondered about the merits of one whilst accelerating head first on my back 200m down an icy Harakiri in Mayrhofen last week.

Funny what you think about during something like that:

• oh bugger I'm off
• right, I've landed and I'm conscious
• I appear to be going head first
• and I'm on my back
• hope this doesn't rip my new TNF jacket
• could do with sone new pants
• I'm accelerating
• hope they got me a beer in whilst watching me attempt this
• how do I right myself from here?
• can't get on my front
• will I flip off if I try and arrest with the board?
• still accelerating, can't stop, maybe I should wear a helmet
• try and turn with your elbows, oh bugger I've got my sleeves rolled up
• when will this stop?
• I've stopped, get up and keep going before you panic
• why am I laughing?

bandit wrote:Right, now I've got decent connection and the right cables. Here is the image of my pal's helmet with the offending rock in his hand.



The area where this happened is in view just above and right of the helmet, you can see our tracks where we came back onto the piste.

I'm not convinced that a bobble hat would have been much use :shock:

Tony_H wrote:That really is a ridiculous thing to say, and purely provocative.
No one would argue a bobble hat would have stopped that rock.
No one said bobble hat wearers are better skiers.

YOU as a helmet wearer assume people who dont wear them think they are better skiers.
I am hardly a great skier, and if I fell over on a rock I might die. Thats my decision, and what this thread was all about, but we dont need ridiculous comments like that.