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Message 2964 (11. Jul. 2007 04:27) (Tree)

claudine
has anyone tried these wrist guards?
They are made from a company called Hillbilly and they are called Half-Ass. Heres a link to them also. Not a bad price either!

http://www.mbs.com/productcart/pc/vi...?idProduct=169

They look like the triple 8 hired hands I have but have a spoon like sliding piece like the prodesigned guards. That would be even better. I'm finding the HH inflexible now though if I want to do grabs. But I will take one of the pieces of plastic out when the time comes. But even so, the small is actually too wide for my hands and they are fairly stiff. I was thinking next year when my wrist guards are trashed, I would get the prodesigned ones, but those ramps are like frying pans in the summer and I tend to hit the top of my hands a lot too.

If you've tried them, can you grab, do handplants with them? I love the donkey on them! I might try them out next spring/summer when its time.
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claudine: has anyone tried these wrist guards? (11. Jul. 2007 04:27)
 They are made from a company called Hillbilly and they are called Half-Ass. Heres a link to them also. Not a bad price either!

http://www.mbs.com/productcart/pc/vi...?idProduct=169

They look like the triple 8 hired hands I have but have a spoon like sliding piece like the prodesigned guards. That would be even better. I'm finding the HH inflexible now though if I want to do grabs. But I will take one of the pieces of plastic out when the time comes. But even so, the small is actually too wide for my hands and they are fairly stiff. I was thinking next year when my wrist guards are trashed, I would get the prodesigned ones, but those ramps are like frying pans in the summer and I tend to hit the top of my hands a lot too.

If you've tried them, can you grab, do handplants with them? I love the donkey on them! I might try them out next spring/summer when its time.
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Bernhard: has anyone tried these wrist guards? (11. Jul. 2007 22:40)
 I never use wrist guards. My wrists are rather strong (surely not unbreakable). The advantage of a wrist guard is not that they avoid fractures, but rather that they shift the fracture point away from the critical wrist. Therefore they are probably useful. I do use gloves, however. To me it is important to protect my finger tips and nails. I need those for guitar playing.
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claudine: has anyone tried these wrist guards? (12. Jul. 2007 17:53)
 : I never use wrist guards. My wrists are rather strong (surely not unbreakable). The advantage of a wrist guard is not that they avoid fractures, but rather that they shift the fracture point away from the critical wrist. Therefore they are probably useful. I do use gloves, however. To me it is important to protect my finger tips and nails. I need those for guitar playing.

Well, I need my hands in order to work. Thats why I cant risk it. I like them cause I can slide on the metal. Really helps in falls although I would like to learn to not hit my hands at all. Maybe later down the road I wont need them, just a broken wrist would cause me to lose my job probably.

From what I've heard, that type of leather is more flexible. I dont know much about leather honestly. Just I seem to do a good job distroying it lol.
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zorg: has anyone tried these wrist guards? (12. Jul. 2007 19:21)
 leather is good:
-doesn't melt down like plastic when you slide on them
-better for perspiration
wrist guards or gloves (like other protections):
-help sliding on them, not burning your skin, avoid wood needles on wood ramps...
Wrist guards:
-should protect your wrist to break up to some limits
-some of them limit to much movments for hand plants
So the one you presented seems good, if you can remove one or 2 of the bars, you can still adjust their flexibility.
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Bernhard: has anyone tried these wrist guards? (12. Jul. 2007 22:07)
 : Well, I need my hands in order to work. Thats why I cant risk it.

Me too. I didn't want to seen suggesting that you shouldn't protect your hands. I use leather gloves myself.

: I like them cause I can slide on the metal. Really helps in falls although I would like to learn to not hit my hands at all.

Yep. When falling, you should try to just slide on your knee pads. Much more elegant! To achieve this, you have to put you way in the other direction, i.e. behind. In contrast to putting your weight before your skates when skating.
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claudine: has anyone tried these wrist guards? (13. Jul. 2007 01:31)
 : : Well, I need my hands in order to work. Thats why I cant risk it.
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: Me too. I didn't want to seen suggesting that you shouldn't protect your hands. I use leather gloves myself.
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: : I like them cause I can slide on the metal. Really helps in falls although I would like to learn to not hit my hands at all.
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: Yep. When falling, you should try to just slide on your knee pads. Much more elegant! To achieve this, you have to put you way in the other direction, i.e. behind. In contrast to putting your weight before your skates when skating.

Oh gosh, trying NOT to land on my butt though! I was out a month cause of that one. Working on just landing on my knee pads but since I'm not always in front of my skates, which seems to be the right way to skate, I land backwards still. Getting better now though now that I figured this out!!

But here are my gloves now. I've only been using them I think 6 weeks. Already the metal piece is wearing away at the leather. So I need to fix that up somehow with more leather, duct tape, not sure. I sometimes must thing I'm a longboarder lol, cause on the ramps, I like to bounce off my hands. So you can see, they are still being used and abused. I guess I havent been skating long enough to learn how to not use my hands. The last week or so I am suddenly not falling as much which is REALLY good!
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claudine: has anyone tried these wrist guards? (13. Jul. 2007 01:35)
 : leather is good:
: -doesn't melt down like plastic when you slide on them
: -better for perspiration
: wrist guards or gloves (like other protections):
: -help sliding on them, not burning your skin, avoid wood needles on wood ramps...
: Wrist guards:
: -should protect your wrist to break up to some limits
: -some of them limit to much movments for hand plants
: So the one you presented seems good, if you can remove one or 2 of the bars, you can still adjust their flexibility.

I think I can take out the back one! Hopefully in another year, I will not need the support as much and by next summer, I should be doing handplants I'm sure! I just found out that there is a place an hour away that is an indoor skatepark called Charmcity. So as long as I have income, thats what I like to do with my freetime.
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Bernhard: has anyone tried these wrist guards? (13. Jul. 2007 11:33)
 : Oh gosh, trying NOT to land on my butt though! I was out a month cause of that one. Working on just landing on my knee pads but since I'm not always in front of my skates, which seems to be the right way to skate, I land backwards still. Getting better now though now that I figured this out!!

Ah, OK. My statement was a bit misunderstandable. So, you have your weight in front, right? But sometimes you lose control nevertheless and fall. You pull up your feet then and land on your knee pads. Next you take your weight back. And then you slide down on just your knee pads (and your toes, that's why I have this piece of plastics in front of my shows).

: I guess I havent been skating long enough to learn how to not use my hands. The last week or so I am suddenly not falling as much which is REALLY good!

True, it's best not to fall at all. But you should be able to do it right when it happens. And learning a better falling technique takes practice and concius effort. I have to admit that my falling technique is by far not as good as I would like. In general I avoid falling alltogether.
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