Wrist guards

There's no trade descriptions act when it comes to snow conditions. Hard pack is suposed to be well groomed powder. If thats the case, your fine.

Trencher

Suppose it will tell about how many bruises I have on my arse whether it is ice or proper hard packed powder :roll:

Really looking forward to it. Wonder if I will feel the same after the first day with snow in every orifice!

Oh I go boarding for the first time on Saturday. HOw excited am I :mrgreen: 8) :D

Learning how to fall is the single most important part of learning to snowboard in my opinion. Don't worry you will get lots of practice. 90% of the time I will fall on my arse, or flat onto my knees, lying almost parallel with the slope in both instances.

I have heard quite a few horror stories about wrist-guards actually doing more harm than good, so I don't use them. This being said I have developed a style of riding which means I catch my front edge very seldom (normally once a week when not concentrating, and most recently not at all), and my board has very unforgiving edges!!! When I do do it, this tends to result in a headlong flight through the air and landing on my head, my hands don't even get close )

tino_11 as you tend to use your head to land upon when boarding, do you wear a helmet?

I don't, but it's something I am considering for this season.

Funnily enough, the two big falls I had onto my head last season were on a black run in Val d'Isere, and on a red in Mayrhofen. It was late in the day, I was on-piste and I had done too much. However a helmet would have done me no good in either case, as I actually landed on the top of my head, causing injury to my neck rather than my cranium!!!

I am from Glasgow originally, my head is made of steel.

tino_11 wrote:I don't, but it's something I am considering for this season.

Funnily enough, the two big falls I had onto my head last season were on a black run in Val d'Isere, and on a red in Mayrhofen. It was late in the day, I was on-piste and I had done too much. However a helmet would have done me no good in either case, as I actually landed on the top of my head, causing injury to my neck rather than my cranium!!!

I am from Glasgow originally, my head is made of steel.

I hope that you find a helmet that you like, perhaps you are a little accident prone?
A Scot abroad, hmmm, can the locals understand a word you say? :lol:

I can only just make out what he says in type, so God knows what he would be like in the flesh.....




......just kidding, as Mrs H is from Lanarkshire.