Helmets & body armor

I think hitting rocks & trees hurts a great deal less when wearing
protection like helmets and body armor. Do you disagree?

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 03:03:26 -0800, evomessias wrote:

I think hitting rocks & trees hurts a great deal less when wearing
protection like helmets and body armor. Do you disagree?

No, that sounds pretty correct, the body armor is also a big help in
contact skiing on those busy green dot runs. You can leave trail of yard
sales and mayhem with very little pain to yourself.

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Gangrene Lantern wrote:

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 03:03:26 -0800, evomessias wrote:

I think hitting rocks & trees hurts a great deal less when wearing
protection like helmets and body armor. Do you disagree?

No, that sounds pretty correct, the body armor is also a big help in
contact skiing on those busy green dot runs. You can leave trail of yard
sales and mayhem with very little pain to yourself.

Late last night on NPR I heard Barbara Budd or the other Canadian woman
interviewing the Norwegian Skijumping-Into-Trees Champion. Apparently
the idea is to get as much height as possible so that when you hit the
tree it's small and bendy and doesn't hurt as much as if you hit the
thing much lower down. I only heard part of the interview, so I don't
know how much body armor the guy wore or how many people do it.

The guy sounded serious. Or seriously nuts. I thought only the Brits
went in for odd sports like that...

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The Real Bev wrote:

Gangrene Lantern wrote:

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 03:03:26 -0800, evomessias wrote:


I think hitting rocks & trees hurts a great deal less when wearing
protection like helmets and body armor. Do you disagree?

No, that sounds pretty correct, the body armor is also a big help in
contact skiing on those busy green dot runs. You can leave trail of yard
sales and mayhem with very little pain to yourself.


Late last night on NPR I heard Barbara Budd or the other Canadian woman
interviewing the Norwegian Skijumping-Into-Trees Champion. Apparently
the idea is to get as much height as possible so that when you hit the
tree it's small and bendy and doesn't hurt as much as if you hit the
thing much lower down. I only heard part of the interview, so I don't
know how much body armor the guy wore or how many people do it.

The guy sounded serious. Or seriously nuts. I thought only the Brits
went in for odd sports like that...

Oh hell no. You remember how they brought the torch into the stadium at
Lillehammer, right?

http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past...T=2&OLGY=1994# in
case you missed it the first time around.

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Mary Malmros
Some days you're the windshield, other days you're the bug.