SnowboardSecrets.com founder and snowboard safety advocate Lauren Traub Teton was quoted in the Poughkeepsie Journal on snowboard protective gear for The National Ski Areas Association’s 14th Annual National Safety Awareness Week, Jan. 19–27, 2013.
Skiing: Tips to keep snowboarders safe
by Julia Carlson Rosenblatt
Excerpt of the article
"Snowboard experts suggest that riders can minimize injury by wearing
wrist guards, knee pads, and elbow pads, just as skate boarders and
inline skaters do. Also a tailbone protector. Riders can improvise this
by stuffing lots of bubble wrap in the back of their pants, or they may
buy a product made specifically for snowboarding.Lauren Traub Teton of Pound Ridge, an avid rider and snowboard advocate, maintains a website with good advice for riders (www.snowboardsecrets.com).
She recommends products that have worked well for her. She never rides
without protective gear. Lest you be concerned about how you will look
with all that protective equipment, I have been out on the slopes with
her several times and never noticed it. What I notice most is her
enthusiasm and skill, which is certainly enhanced by her knowing she has
done her best to prevent injury.
As in skiing, common reflexive habits can lead to disaster. Because of
the way snowboarders usually fall, the first reaction to a loss of
balance is to extend the hands out to catch oneself. No wonder the most
common injury is to the wrist. Traub Teton recommends that when you
feel yourself losing balance, make a fist with your hands with the thumb
outside, relax as much as you can, and try to spread the impact evenly
over your knees and forearms if you fall forward. Wearing kneepads will
make it easier to absorb impact on your knees, and tailbone protection
will make a backward fall less harmful."
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