Ski Helmets

After hearing the very sad news about the 11 year old boy who has died in Colorado in a skiing accident, I feel I must stress how important it is to protect your head%26#39;s,especially children%26#39;s,although the young boy was wearing head protection, it was not a recommended ski helmet,Most of us wear head gear for riding bikes, so why not for skiing when we go much faster ! myself and my husband both wear ski helmets and always have, and on a couple of occasions they have saved us from some bad knocks.

I know helmets are required for lessons but as children have no fear, I would suggest wearing them all the time,Most skiers in the Us and Canada wear them, but for some reason in Europe it hasn%26#39;t caught on ....

I wonder if its not cool enough to wear one, or is it the costs ? either way I know i would rather be safe and wear one than sustain a serious head injury ...

Anita

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a lot of the children in the ski school were not wearing helmets, as far as I know, it is compulsary for upto 7 year olds to wear them on the slopes in yllas and it is compulsary for older children to wear them in some other countries, they are also not expensive and are readily available for hire

they do look cool and if the issue of safety is instilled in our children over the issue of fashion perhaps our children would be safer, however, how many children do you know who ride a bike without a helmet, go skateboarding etc, I know loads, my kids on the otherhand would not think about even going on their scooters in the garden without their helmets on, but there again, I only let one of them on the trampoline and a time and still have the child locks on in the car

I may be wrapping them up in cotton wool but why wouldn%26#39;t anyone do this for their most precious things in life?

now you have got me started....what about children who are left in cars, whilst the parent just pops to the shop, you wouldn%26#39;t leave your mobile phone or purse on show in your car, why leave your child?

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Totally agree with you anita - My 3 and 8 yr old never took them off in December - We even made them wear them when walking as it was slippy under foot near the slopes - and they took tumbels many times but the helmet saved there heads many times.

Did notice that the very good ski-ers wore them over there prob due to the speed at which they went.

My heart goes out to those parents - hopefully it wont happen again.

Shell

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Totally agree.

I was amazed to see so many children this year not wearing helmets while skiing and using the taba runs.

My children are not allowed to use there scooters,heelies,bikes, or any outdoor activities without wearing there helmets.

As for childen being left in cars it amazes me the amount of adults that leave children and babys in a car while they fill up with deisel or pop into the shops.

Even if childen do not ski you can hire a ski helmet at the ski shop in Levi for 2 euros per day!Small price for good protection.

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Bluny

You said you can hire ski helmets for a day...can you book them out for a week at a time?

If so, will do that as soon as we get there...we don%26#39;t have any of our own.

Tracey

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Hi all .... maybe something could be set up just for this lapland forum, like a for sale board ( bit like ebay but without the bidding) for anyone who has equipment to sell, as we all know how fast kids grow out of stuff,that way you can oick up bargian for the next ski season ...

P.S I look really cool in my ski helmet lol ..

Anita

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We get our helmets issued when we hire our skis etc.

I only know about the cost to hire them daily as one day we had left ours back at the cabin so had to hire them for the day.

I would assume that they would let you hire them for the week.

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forgot to put this one..... some trendy helmets on here ..

www.rxsport.co.uk/RX/Pages/ProductsPage.aspx…

Anita

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Absolutely agree, my 16yo moaned that he didn%26#39;t want to wear one, thank god I insisted as he had a really nasty fall resulting in a bad bang to the head which I%26#39;m sure without the helmet he would have ended up knocked out aand in hospital, even he said %26quot;thank goodness your forced me%26quot; he was really scared when he realised what could have happened.

Yes you can hire them for the week.

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Its hard getting kids to do anything if they think they are going to stand out ... but if EVERYONE including parents wore them then there wouldn%26#39;t be an issue... just cos we are adults does%26#39;nt mean we are invincible or our heads don%26#39;t hurt if we fall !!

Anita

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TKMaxx usually have them for sale, we got ours last year in March for £5 each