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My helmet saved my life

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I.B
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We all know that helmets are good at protecting you from head injuries but mine straight saved my life. The other day, trying doubles in the pipe i decked and then flat bottomed. When i flat bottomed i whip lashed and hit my head pretty hard. I ended up blowing up my poc fornix which i was told was near impossible. Just thought i'd share this with everyone here, and how important helmets actually are.




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Feb 1 2014 9:23PM
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Pitolairas
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Gnarly!
Feb 1 2014 9:26PM
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I.B
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fucked up the image
Feb 1 2014 9:26PM
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PsychedelicMoose
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helmets are the shit.
Feb 1 2014 9:33PM
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Jon_Taffer
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I'm trying to figure out what angle your friend filmed from
Feb 1 2014 9:36PM
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galardogod
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Aliens
Feb 1 2014 9:44PM
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rememberscott
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downright scary.. good thing you had you're dome bucket on.
Feb 1 2014 9:46PM
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a_pla5tic_bag
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how is your neck ok after that deck hit?
Feb 1 2014 9:52PM
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liftedresearcher
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good to hear you're alright man. i lost a good buddy to a head injury and he wasnt wearing a helmet. i try and preach helmet use to everyone. they are literally a lifesaver.
Feb 1 2014 10:01PM
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p-fo
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How are your ribs doing?
Feb 1 2014 10:27PM
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TACO-DOG.exe
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holy fuck
Feb 1 2014 10:36PM
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TheBigApple
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That it did. Yikes. Lucky you are not in a coma that is for sure.
Feb 1 2014 11:36PM
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-WZ-
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how is your head even still attatched
Feb 1 2014 11:59PM
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IBAM
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ho lee fuk. Good thing that wan't your head
Feb 2 2014 12:00AM
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last_tango
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send this to poc and they may hook you up with a new one. I'm sure they would want to hear about it anyway.
Feb 2 2014 12:09AM
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Dustin.
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I recently got knocked out and concussed pretty bad. I couldn't imagine that crash with no helmet. I'd probably be saving up for a Stephen Hawking style wheel chair.
Feb 2 2014 12:12AM
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gr4
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did you film that with a potato? gnar crash tho.
Feb 2 2014 12:19AM
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I.B
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Yeah it was fucked. I'm lucky. Really lucky. Helmets are cool, and I would probably be on the hospital if I was wearing a Bern or any subpar helmet. So not only is wearing a helmet important it's wearing a helmet that is going to protect you against shit like this
Feb 2 2014 12:20AM
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edai
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Glad to hear you're all right after that fall, looked like some wild shit. Not only that, but I respect that dub a lot, props homie, wish you the best of luck getting it down. Definitely hit up POC about this, for a fall that gnarly im sure theyll hook you up in more ways than one.
Feb 2 2014 12:40AM
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MAWman
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seriously, busting out the ufo cam here
Feb 2 2014 12:42AM
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cwphoto
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damn that was crazy! good thing you're okay though. i've slammed my head in my receptor bug a few times (nowhere near that hard!) and i know that my poc saved me from getting hurt.
Feb 2 2014 2:02AM
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DIPED_IN_SAUCE
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Jesus FUCK
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How the hell did that not break you. Like Christ that's a miracle.
Feb 2 2014 2:34AM
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Kretzschmar
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posted this to the NS twitter so more people can see how helmets are important.

glad to see you're doing ok man, that was really gnarly! I never go without a brainbucket even if I'm just cruising around.
Feb 2 2014 6:32PM
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Iraq_Lobster
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It took me a good while to figure out how to watch it at the right angle
Feb 2 2014 7:30PM
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Dustin.
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Ya I have a POC Receptor Bug. Works as advertised for sure.
Feb 2 2014 8:21PM
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Triple_Strum
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Wow, so glad you were wearing a helmet. While that is incredibly scary these are great threads to bring awareness. I would dare say if you weren't wearing a helmet you would be dead or nearly so
Feb 2 2014 8:24PM
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I.B
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Much appreciated. I should probably be in the hospital right now but I'm not. It's absolutely amazing that people still ride without helmets when something so simple can save you in more ways than one. I'm also very lucky I was wearing my back pad during this crash. Without those things I can't imagine I would have gotten up and walked away. And thanks to these simple things I'm able to continue to push myself and feel comfortable.
Feb 2 2014 8:46PM
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cwphoto
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a poc back protector?
Feb 2 2014 8:59PM
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Drail
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Minor concussion, or did you straight up walk away all good?
Feb 2 2014 9:01PM
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freestyler540
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helmet confidence +1
Feb 2 2014 9:10PM
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I.B
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Straight walked away all good. My bell was rung for sure but nothing that set me back more than a day. More than anything the only thing that really hurt was my lower back.



And yes, it was a poc back protector.
Feb 2 2014 9:21PM
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SnowshoeThompson
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double or die
Feb 2 2014 10:12PM
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Troy.
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+++++++++vibes Ian. You need to be alive to stay at my house and eat all of my fucking food again. Come back.
Feb 2 2014 10:12PM
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Don.Cartagena
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Helmets are for pussies.
Feb 3 2014 12:10AM
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B.Aussie
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Glad to hear you're okay. Looked like a pretty gnarly crash.

POC helmets and back protector have saved my life too. Definitely not over-rated pieces of safety equipment.
Feb 3 2014 2:45AM
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Don.Cartagena
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How could you hurt yourself? You don't do anything gnarly.

Helmets are for fags.
Feb 3 2014 3:25AM
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esotericjive
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Damn man, glad to hear you're okay, that's really heavy.
In November I hit my head pretty hard, knocked myself the fuck out and broke my wrist.
this is my helmet.
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Though my helmet was on, I still incurred a hemorrhagic contusion. After seeing that, I had no doubt that it saved my life.

Wear a helmet.
Feb 3 2014 6:57AM
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