What Pads do you Use?

I first started with my motorcycle gear (BMW motorrad pants and the fancy touring jacket). Awesomely protective but hot as hell and sort of silly looking (yes, it matters )

Then I started wearing my hockey pads due to heat. Surprisingly effective, but they were relatively cheap pads so the knee pads kept slipping off to the side and I slide on my knees a LOT.

So for Father's day, I received as a gift the MBS pads. They look sort of cheap on their web site, but they're actually much higher quality than I had anticipated. I got the wrong size (M vs. the L I need), so I'm waiting for a return, but otherwise, I'm very pleased.

What is your protective kit?

Hillbilly Protection Impact Shorts:


Dainese 3X Elbow & Knee Pads


ATB,
Sam

Quote: Originally posted by Snake

I don't really get why they are needed?

When u get moving on a board, buggy

Quote: Originally posted by Snake

I don't really get why they are needed?

Gravelings are everywhere... :o

"When" only looks like "If" until something bad happens.





ATB,
Sam

Quote: Originally posted by Snake

You're supposed to use pads?!?!? Looks like I never got the memo. I don't think I ever had a situation were I would have needed them. I always land on my feet, then there is the occasional butt scud, but that's about it. I don't really get why they are needed?

You have to be joking ? :duh:

Unfortunately, I know for a fact that Snake isn't joking. He either has better winds, is made of rubber, has more latent ability, or is just plain old' dumb. I know which one he would say, but I think it's the second one. 25 years ago, I got tackled (football) while I was standing straight up and the guy hit me from the front at knee level. My knees went backwards and I popped up immediately, shook it off and ran the next play. Nowadays, I'm sure I would at least break a leg or explode or something. I think I stopped being invincible at about 28.

Now I wear pads and I'm happy to. For one thing, I knee-scud way more than I butt scud now... It's faster and I have more control. My pads slide a lot faster than my kneecaps . Moreover, I can push the limits to the edge of uncomfortability without my fun being ended by a single mistake. To each their own, I guess. I still make mistakes, but even without that, I never know what the wind will do here. 0 gusting 40 is what I found 2 weeks ago. In that crap, I can make 0 mistakes and still be hosed. Seems to me to be a no brainer...

Heh. Every single one of my weak spots can be attributed to skating, boarding or climbing. Dislocated right elbow (snowboarding), fractured right wrist (snowboarding -- HUGE air, though. I'm sure all the ladies were impressed), shattered right ankle (climbing fall -- lucky to be alive), broken left collar bone (supposed to be a varial/shoveit to nosegrind, but turned into an actual nosegrind ).

Anywhoo, don't listen to us grumpy ol' codgers, you just keep going big, Snake. Just make sure you get it on video because 23 years later nobody believes me about how much badassery I threw down in my late teens. You're a big boy and you know the stakes, so I have no beef with your decision. Just don't hate on mine.

Incidentally, I totally changed my opinion on how they look, too. I used to think they just kinda made you look dorky. However, I think that a good set of used, dirty, abused pads show some street cred and make you look like some sort of post-apocalyptic Road-Warrior type. Of course, if you never wreck, they just look shiny, but luckily I don't have that problem.

btw, Snake, I was out flying my 19 Venom on Sunday and was almost wishing for my 18m Guerilla a little. In super low winds, Guerilla == win. In any wind at all (e.g. 5+) Venom == win.

Rockgarden flak jacket, Rockgarden knee pads, Rockgarden forearm/elbow pads, Bell DOT fullface Helmet.

This accident didn't look that bad. https://vimeo.com/16678110

It's a shame I did not wear the proper gear....
Cost me 5 months out of work/kiting and an expensive shoulder surgery. Wish I would have listened to the guys now.

Now I armor up for it!