Snapzzz wrote:Brucie wrote:Ahhh Snapzzz,
I have to admit you were not top of the list to ridicule my post, but you were up there. Congratulations, and thank you for reinforcing my point!
Im sorry Brucie if you took it as ridicule, that wasn't my intention.
I merely wanted to disagree with your points, mainly that skiers feel some level of invincability whilst wearing helmets.
Wearing a lid has done nothing to make me feel that i am a better skier or given me the confidence to take greater risks, i think your statement is just another one of those over used untruths that the anti helmet brigade reel out time after time. Another is spacial awareness which IMHO is total rubbish too.
Strange isn't it. How peoples OPINIONS can differ so much.
I have to disagree with you Snapzz. Like you, I do not feel a better skier wearing a helmet, in fact possibly the opposite. I have chosen in the 2 weeks I have owned a helmet not to wear it on a number of those days out of choice because I felt too hot, cramped, and as if I was in some kind of bubble.
But talking to other skiers and boarders, the vast majority have now invested in helmets like myself, because of the pressure put on them by cases highlighted in the media and peer group pressure, not out of personal choice. Their is also a common denominator among a percentage of these people I have spoken to who claim they feel almost invincible now they have a helmet, in as much as some even say they now ski or board faster as "they wont get hurt if they have a crash".
Heres the thing - no one is right or wrong. Ian W continues to choose not to wear a helmet as I did until this season, and he should not be ridiculed for that. Nor should he be told he has made a wrong choice for not doing so. The thing is it is a matter of time until helmet wearing becomes compulsory, of that I am sure, and until then everyone has the right to choose.
Conditions last week meant a LOT of skiers were out on the slopes with nothing on their heads at all - it was hot and sunny, and that encourages people to enjoy the air on their heads, and I have to say the difference between that and wearing a lid was in fact a very nice welcome feeling.
But as has been discussed before to death, neither is right or wrong, it is still a personal preference while you still have a choice. I felt forced somewhat by a number of things to get a helmet, and haven't quite felt at home in it, but I see the positive reasons for wearing one, especially after Mrs H had a fall and banged her head last week, but at the end of the day it is not a law and it is no ones right to judge who or what is right or wrong until it becomes so.