safety

[fountainhead]

I am new to skiboarding and am trying the sport as an alternative to the big bulky skis, poles and travel problem as well as the expense of skis. I have read some articles about the safety of skiboarding as opposed to skiing. Some articles are reporting that skiboarding is riskier and not as safe as skiing. Anyone care to rebut the article.

thanks for the imput.

Fountainhead

"We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of the dream." Willy Wonka

I thought this quote demonstrates the additued of this site.

[joel]

It's probably true, as skiboards have non-releasable bindings, which means you have a better chance of breaking your leg or your ankle or something..

It's not in any way far more dangerous though, and its well worth any non life-threatening risk..

[J.D.]

Uh...ok yes the non releasable bindings are a bit worse for injuries...but isn't it a life threatening risk every time you throw a backflip? Doesn't matter what bindings you have if you land on your head. If you're that worried about hurting yourself, then you should think twice about skiboarding. It's a fairly risky sport; it has to be, or there's not much point. That's what I think anyways...maybe some people just like going down the hill. Good for them. What are you planning to do with your boards?

[cmbruin]

Good point J.D. A head injury is a head injury is a head injury.


fountainhead-
The articles that say skiboarding is "riskier" than skiing have to do with severity of leg injuries due to non releasable bindings. There are releasable alternatives (rev x and miller z). With releasables on skiboards, the leg/knee injury risks are much lower with skiboards than skis. Skiboarding is a lot of fun with less logistical issues than skis (they're much lighter, don't need car racks, travel is easy, no poles, ...), and for hacks like me, I can do a lot more on skiboards than I could on skis.

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[jhritz2000]

Yeah if your worried about a leg injury i would just suggest releasable bindings. I know I caught an edge 2 years ago and ended up with my leg broke in three places. I was in a cast for like 8 weeks and on crutches for like 2 months after that. But hey, you cant give it up its an awsome addiction. so i was back out there last year and plan to be this year! so give it a try see how you like it!!!

[J.D.]

Yeah that's true, there are some releasables now for Skiboards. They sound pretty hi quality too. By the way I shouldve mentioned that the only times I've ever injured myself were on skis, back and knee injuries. Skis can actually be worse for injuries if you set the DIN on the bindings too high, just cause they're longer and heavier; my knee got really screwed up when i fell on it wrong, and I know if I'd been on skiboards I probably wouldn't have been hurt at all. Them's the brakes.

[snobunny]

I think the injuries go along with what type of activity you are doing. I never really got hurt 'just cruising' around the slopes, but I tore up my knee in the park. The likelihood of an injury correlates with the risks you take. Yeah, I probably wouldn't have hurt myself if I hadn't have tried those jumps, but they were so much fun! I'm definitely skiboarding again (2 weeks :) ) but I'm going to use releasable bindings and a little more common sense until I get my knee back in shape.

[Jordahl]

yeah but ur gona hurt urself unless your born to do the sport. even if u are u still mite hurt urself like mike wass. (sorry i hada put that in there) yesterday, i pulled a leg muscle from hitting a jump wrong. but its gona happen
just practice n hope for the best.

[griswald]

I shattered my femur (broke it into 4 pieces) on skis with DIN settings that weren't even that high. Bottom line, any sport you undertake has risks associated with it. Learning to fall properly will mitigate those risks, just as stretching before running reduces the risk of pulling a muscle.

[Jordahl]

i keep pulling muscles n im learning from my mistakes. such as never go off a jump that goes verticle in less then a foot or youll catch and edge. but im starting to get faster. me n court raced n i was almost all the way down the hill when she finished i had like 80 feet left n that hill was huge. (note: that meant nothing)

[Courtney]

i wasted you.

[matthew]

dude no one is born to do anything everyone can do anything its just people nowadays are lazy

and as for hurting your self. just sit and think about it for a seconed your straping yourself to a pice of wood. (or 2 pices) and rideing down a hill going anywhere from 10-50 maybe 60 mph. your going to get hurt. the only thing is when and how bad and there is nothing your bindings can do about it. i mean releasable bindings are just to make you feel safer. big deal they come off when you fall you still fell. you get hurt from falling the only way your biding is going to help is if it keeps you from falling it cant.

and realy if there was no chance of geting hurt would you do it most likely no people want to feel like there doing something danngerous. i say just get some balls and go rip it up

[J.D.]

^ You gotta admit, though, there IS a big difference between bruises from hitting the ground and dehabilitaing knee damage from twisting your leg around. Sure, you're right; if you're going down the mountain you will get hurt. But your bindings DO have something to do with how badly...
Even so, it shouldn't matter that much, if you're doing something that is inherently dangerous, you live with the consequences. Skiing is worth the pain, if it's not, do something else. I'm sorry if you end up on crutches... life sucks, get a helmet.
Also, pack a few non-drowsy pain killers; I take 'em all the time, they help.

[matthew]

ya man i take about 10 aleve a day i ride everyday so the body takes a pounding but its well worth it

[snobunny]

I have a prescription for vicodin for my knee! :)

[zenderfall]

I've never had a leg or arm injury siboarding (knocks on wood) but that's because I'm a little more careful than most people. Not to say I don't go crazy when the time is right, or hit jibs and boxes when they're ok to go off....I cracked my helmet though, so I'm not 100%.....

If you're worried about injuries just take it easy. That goes with just about any snow-related sport. The harder you push, the more risk you take, and eventually, the odds catch up with you and you break something. It's not really about releasable bindings, or skiboards, or the equipment-its how you ride.

[snobunny]

That was what I was trying to say, I'm just not so good with the wording. (Darn Engineers don't learn English anymore).

I've ridden horses cometitively for 10 years and I've been hurt or have fallen off so many times that I don't even remember how many. I didn't get hurt very much just trail riding or showing in the show ring, but when I started fox hunting and jumping out in cross country, that when things really get inpredictable. It's all about the risks you take, with any sport.

[J.D.]

^ Haha... they have a course called "English for engineers" at my school. No WONDER I don't fukin understand those drunks, they speak different english! Then again, we have "Sciences for arts students"... the physics of music...lmfao.

Yeah horse riding must be dangerous if it took out Superman. I'm worried by what you said though, do you not remember how many times you fell because there were too many, or because of head injuries? You may want to avoid backflips if its the second one.

[matthew]

head injuries ha i knocked myself out 2 times when i was rideing and i am still going to do backflips

[snobunny]

^^ both... I do what Christopher Reeves did when he was paralyzed. I fell off once and cracked my helmet, and ended up with a pretty severe concussion, but had to ride back to the trailers anyways. I didn't jump any more that time out, but we did end up winning the time trial, cause we hauled ass back to the finish.

Anyways, back to skiboarding.... I don't plan on doing any flips or many jumps for that matter til my knee is a little stronger.

[Caveat_Omnis]

All I know is that Steve Irwin was swimming with some of the most docile creatures in the ocean......trying to show the rest of the world their beauty and magnificence; trying to give the world a reason to treat nature better --- he got stabbed in the heart by a stingray and died doing something he loved.
Not soon there after, a stingray leapt out of the fuggin water and stabbed an 81 year old man in the chest. LEAPT OUT??
I bet he wore releasable bindings while skiing. And all that did was get him a free, winning, unlucky lottery ticket.

Point is (heard time and time again), if you jog a mile a day and eat lots of oatmeal, you are going to get cancer instead of heart disease. Or a spider might kill you while you are sleeping.

L2ride, L2fall, l2haveFUN
everything leads to injuries, they happen.
@ least you get some time off of work and rockin' painkillers.

My rusty two cents thrown in......being a brand new skiboarder and all (5 years of skiing/boredom)

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/10/19/stingray.reut/index.html

[hardcorekillme]

go head butt a wall a few times then talk to Hardcore dont worry bout getting hurt its all fun