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."
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Snowboard tips and event coverage at www.SnowboardSecrets.TV
Snowboard Gloves with Wrist Guards, and Skateboard Wrist Guards designed by a doctor for Flexmeters/Docmeter here.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Snowboard Boot Fitting is a huge issue! We receive hundreds of searches on this subject a week. Read our answers to your questions about snowboard boots that are too big, too small, snowboard boots that make your feet cold or numb, and more, here!
Snowboard Boot Fitting Advice here!
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Lauren Traub Teton & SnowboardSecrets.com in the International Herald Tribune
Skiing vs. Snowboarding: What’s the Coolest Mountain Sport Now?
from IHT Rendezvous, The International Herald Tribune / The Global Edition of the New York Times
James Connell discusses the New York Times article:"Has Snowboarding Lost its Edge?" in his blog post for The International Herald Tribune
Lauren Traub Teton, founder of the SnowboardSecrets family of snowboard websites posted this response.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
How about encouraging "grown-ups" to snowboard?
Unlike teaching 7 year-olds as Burton is doing, adults have their own money and cars and will become good customers in their own right.
Learning to snowboard is well within the realm of physical possibility for adults over 40, even those who have never skied. Having both feet locked in makes the muscles around the knee strong. Properly designed snowboard wrist protection should be worn, as beginner snowboarders have a four times greater chance of a wrist injury than more experienced riders. Other snowboard protective gear is helpful and can make the difference between pain and pleasure.
There are 530,530 snowboarders age 45 and older, as extrapolated from SIA figures. Yet we are invisible: nothing is marketed to our demographic. We never see people who look like us in advertisements for snowboard gear. When some savvy companies start marketing and catering to us with respect, we will support them.
Lauren Traub Teton
Snowboard Safety Advocate and
Editor, SnowboardSecrets.com
Hyperlinks in the body of the text were added to this blog post for readers' convenience and did not appear in the original post.
Flexmeters Gloves with Wrist Guards built-in and Azzpadz Tailbone Protector are two ways to make snowboarding safer. Video here.