Flexmeter/Docmeter Wrist Guard Testimonials - More!

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September 10, 2013
Lauren wrote:

Hi Gene,

I recognize your name from past orders, don't I?

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Lauren,

 

Yes, we love your product, this is our 3rd set.  My daughter broke her wrist twice in one season a few years ago.  Nothing since then as she started wearing the Flexmeters

 

Thank you!

 

Gene H.

Closter, NJ

 

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Lauren Traub Teton quoted as Snowboard Safety Advocate

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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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.

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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!

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.

What can save snowboarding?
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.

Should Snowboarders Wear Wrist Guards? - from Squidoo

Should Snowboarders Wear Wrist Guards? 

Excerpts from Squidoo:

From the Scottish Snow Sports Safety Study:
* 25% of all snowboard injuries affect the wrist joint
* 70% of all wrist injuries were fractures (broken bones)
* Estimated 95,000 wrist fractures each year among snowboarders worldwide.

From the Colorado Snowboard Injury Survey:
* snowboarders wearing wrist guards are half as likely to injure their wrists as snowboarders not wearing guards.

See the lens about snowboarders wearing wrist guards
and join the discussion on Squidoo here.

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Flexmeter Snowboard Gloves with Wrist Guards built-in, and Flexmeter Wrist Guards to wear under your gloves, or for skateboarding are designed by renowned French Mountain Doctor Marc-Herve Binet, who runs the clinic at Avoriaz Ski Resort, France.

Flexmeters are designed to FLEX at your wrist joint to absorb the shock of a fall, unlike other wrist guards.
Flexmeters, by Docmeter have been tested and proven to provide wrist protection to snowboarders and reduce snowboard wrist injuries by up to 75%. 

What are you waiting for?
Get protection for your wrists at www.Flexmeters.com.
We can send them to you in the US, UK, or anywhere in the world.

See our videos of Flexmeter Gloves and Wrist Guards in action here!

Read testimonials from our happy Flexmeter customers here, including this one from Doug who says

"These are the only wrist guards that I trust, and I will not ride without them." 

We have Doug's X-rays of his two broken wrists sustained in a snowboard crash while wearing another brand of wrist guard before he found Flexmeters, and unfortunately he has two titanium plates, and 26 screws to show for it.

Snowboard Wrist Guards available at

www.Flexmeters.com

         

Flexmeter Snowboard Wrist Protection - More Letters from Happy Customers

Hi Lauren,
A year or so ago I called you in desperation because my son was invited to a friend's ski house to go snowboarding for only the 3rd time.  This friend had invited another boy the previous weekend who unfortunately had fallen and broken both his wrists.  My son had suffered a broken ankle in the past and I wanted to ensure that his bones would be safe!!

You recommended the Flexmeter gloves and were very generous with both your time and expertise.  Not only did we purchase them, but so did my girlfriend for her son as well.

Both boys felt more secure out on the slopes with their new gloves.  They felt that the gloves were very warm and comfortable to boot.

Thank you so much!!
Jillian F.

Reston, VA

October 3, 2012

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This letter is from a buyer of Flexmeter Gloves and Wrist Guards - he has purchased several pieces from us over the years.

"Flexmeters offer unreal levels of protection, the strength and reinforcement they provide to the wrist is obvious from the first moment I put them on. They're so effective that suddenly my hands become usable on a snowboard, I don't have to keep in the back of my mind that I could snap a wrist in any fall, and can instead focus on the ride, the rail, or the next trick I want to land. They are both tool and protection, I won't go out without them. By the way, my wife is a skier, and still loves wearing flexmeter wrist guards! "

Joe Saylor
Bellevue, WA
03/12

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Dear Lauren

The wrist protectors have just arrived, one day prior to the beginning of our snow season!
They fit him perfectly and it is his favourite color.

It seems like a very good product and I'm sure a lot of people will ask me how I got them.
I am forwarding your contact information for his teacher - www.flexmeters.com to reduce drastically the chances of wrist and forearm injuries while snowboarding or skateboarding.

Thanks a lot!
Lia S.

Brazil

7/16/2012

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Wachusett Mountain Hosts AcroBag Progression Tour - Inflatable Landing Pad

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Tuesday, March 6 - Sunday, March 11

Giant inflatable landing pads for landing ski, snow, and bike tricks are the hottest new thing sweeping the States, from their origins in Europe around 2004. This week pro snowboarder and snowboard entrepreneur Marc-Andre Tarte brings his company's AcroBag to Wachusett Mountain.

The huge Acrobag, measuring 50 by 50 feet is placed snugged up to a 13 foot jump with 3 options, left, right, and center, each with different height profiles. Marc-Andre and his crew are on hand during the Progression Tour to give custom coaching to each rider or skier before their jump. See a video of the whole process in action here!


Details on the event  here.

Want to buy or rent an AcroBag for your resort?

Flexmeter Wrist Guard Testimonial from Colorado

"These are the only wrist guards that I trust, and I will not ride without them."
 

Doug's Left Arm X-Ray

Doug's Right Arm X-Ray

Lauren,                                                                                                         
Was great talking to you this afternoon! As discussed, I work for Vail 
Resorts with the on-mountain marketing team, both at Vail and at 
Beaver Creek. My team is on the snow every day interacting with 
hundreds of guests, and more importantly, doing lots of snowboarding. 
At your earliest convenience, please send me a link to a flexmeter 
proform, so that I can replace my old flexmeters, and continue 
to tell our guests that these wrist guards are simply the best.

These wrist guards really are amazing. Two years ago I had a bad wreck 
on my snowboard. I was actually wearing some other wrist guards at the 
time, still managed to fracture / dislocate both of my wrists. All it 
took to get me back on the snow was two titanium plates, 26 screws, 
lots of PT, and some determination. Almost two years later, I am still 
riding just as hard, 100+ days a season, with much thanks due to 
flexmeter wrist guards. These are the only wrist guards that I trust, 
and I will not ride without them.

What really makes the gloves so awesome for flexmeters is the super 
wide palm / hand area that allows the wrist guard to slide into the 
glove easily. The best way I can describe it is a super dexterous 
glove with fingers from a size M and hand area from a size XL. 

Also check out my sweet x- ray shots!

Thanks so much,
Looking forward to hearing back!

Doug A.
Vail and Beaver Creek, CO

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Write me at Lauren@SnowboardSecrets.com.

Order Flexmeter/Docmeter snowboard gloves with wrist guards built-in, Flexmeter wrist guards to wear under your gloves or mittens, and for skateboarding, and Azzpadz and BootyGuard Tailbone Protection, at...www.Flexmeters.com.

See our videos showing snowboard protective gear, snowboard wrist guards, snowboard gloves with wrist guards, and tailbone protection, including Lauren's fall off the halfpipe wall at USASA Nationals, here!