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bo bo's sustained in a slalom crash
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 1:50 am
by Barry Gourley
As you all know I'm looking into the PD pads, In a crash when slaloming what bodyparts takes the most abuse, elbows,knees,wrists???
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 2:15 am
by Wes Eastridge
All of them do. Sometimes a fall can be predicted and a knee slide can then be conciously executed. On the other end of the mishap spectrum, a fall could be nearly instantaneous, and then you won't know what saved you until after the fact.
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 4:37 am
by Adam Trahan
...in most of my skids on slalom boards, wrist, elbow, shoulder, head, hip and knee. Most of the damage is on the leading side, right side if you are a goofy foot versa visa.
Knee and elbow pads, wrist guards and a good helmet are a minimum.
Be careful and have fun.
bo bo's sustained in a slalom crash
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 8:33 pm
by Barry Gourley
adam,
what is a goofy foot????
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2004 10:16 pm
by Glenn S
Barry,
Goofyfoot is originally a surfing term to describe a surfer that surfs with their "right" foot forward. Regular-Foot is with the left foot forward.
This term has been adapted by all other board-sports from the original surfing usage.
Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2004 12:03 am
by Hans Koraeus
Look at the avatars above and you will only see goofies.
Look at mine and you will see a ...