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What protective equipment do the pros use?

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YungTabitha
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Just wondering
Aug 3 2013 10:15PM
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NinetyFour
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Trojan
Aug 3 2013 10:42PM
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50Kal
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Nice^
Honestly the number one thing I'd wear for park skiing is a helmet. Toady they can do a whole lot of repairs on the human body. One of the few big things that can't fix is bruised brain.
Aug 3 2013 10:47PM
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NinetyFour
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Very true. Aside from that, the only other protective gear I can really suggest is some padded crash shorts. If your skiing an icy park and you take a fall, it will feel like your shredding the skin right off of your butt and hips.

The only other things I can think of are spine protectors or mouth guards. Heard of people using both but I don't personally know anyone wearing either.
Aug 3 2013 10:56PM
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werd.
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I would invest in some crash pads if your skinny or if the snow where you go isn't soft. I'm skinny and ski the east coast, by the end of this year my whole left hip was covered in huge bruises that lasted almost a month after I stopped skiing

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Aug 3 2013 11:16PM
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GrahamGould
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for park you should be set with just a helmet, but a lot of pros dont even use that. As far as big mountain, some people wear a mouth guard, body armor/spine protector, and sometimes impact shorts. The full face helmet used to be really popular, but It seems to be fading, probably because Its super uncomfortable, and its pretty uncommon for skiers to get serious face/jaw/teeth injuries anyway
Aug 3 2013 11:26PM
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Balbertt
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I have this gform shirt(picture below) and some regular crash shorts. It depends on the day sometimes I wear both sometimes only one of them. Or not at all.
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Aug 4 2013 12:00AM
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SamtheEagle
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condoms are for pussies
Aug 4 2013 2:37AM
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-SnowSnoli-
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Helmet + Back protector I would say be the most common amongst freeriders, does help that its mandatory to wear them both for FWQ and FWT.
Aug 4 2013 3:23AM
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.squirrely.
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used to be a pussy and wear football pads and shit, but now im TOUGH and i dont
Aug 4 2013 7:30AM
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Wolfgang.
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And eventually, with stem cells, patching up your brain will be an option.
Aug 4 2013 1:47PM
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Mag
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Anybody here used d3o? always wanted to try it out and wondered how it was for skiing, if I was into protection(other than a helmet) a pair of d3o shorts would be at the top of my list.
Aug 4 2013 8:15PM
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joshua
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Psshh I'm still rocking a thigh bruise from February, and its still going to be there for awhile get on my level.

But I'm really considering crash shorts this year, I'm sick of having bruises for months and months.
Aug 4 2013 8:31PM
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