| In the sport of wakeboarding, wakeboard helmets | | | | encouraging wearing a helmet when riding behind the |
| have become much more commonplace and are seen | | | | boat as well. The reason is, catching your heelside or |
| a lot more often these days out on the lake. This is | | | | toeside edge on a wakeboard will cause a sudden |
| seen by many as a good thing as any seasoned | | | | and violent fall that oftentimes results in a whiplash. A |
| wakeboarder has either experienced themselves, or | | | | wakeboard helmet with good padding that is tight on |
| seen a fellow rider experience a concussion when a | | | | your head will certainly absorb some of the impact |
| trick goes wrong. Concussions have recently gotten a | | | | when your head smacks the water. I personally have |
| lot of attention from the media in more high profile | | | | sustained 3 concussions while attempting to learn |
| sports but for a long time were looked at as just | | | | new wakeboarding tricks. I got knocked out learning |
| another wakeboarding injury that came with trying to | | | | how to do air raleys, one on a roll to blind attempt |
| progress riding skills. Another big contributor to the | | | | gone wrong, and another I was doing a simple |
| rising popularity of wakeboard helmets is the fact | | | | backside 180 and just caught my back edge. I can't |
| that more people are starting to hit sliders or rails and | | | | say that I still wouldn't have been knocked goofy, |
| there are many more wakeboarding cable parks now | | | | but I know for sure that a wakeboard helmet would |
| than there were in previous years. Most people go to | | | | have helped to soften to the blow. |
| cable parks to hit wakeboard sliders as there are no | | | | These days wakeboard helmets not only serve the |
| wakes to jump and other than kicker ramps and rails | | | | purpose of protecting your head, they also look really |
| the only inverts that can be done are air tricks. | | | | good too. Since the industry finally started to |
| It is imperative that anyone hitting any kind of kicker | | | | recognize just how relevant head injuries and |
| ramp, slider, or rail wear a wakeboard helmet. The | | | | concussions are in wakeboarding they have started |
| risks are just too great and hitting your head on the | | | | to make helmets that look good and protect. There |
| hard surfaces these obstacles are made out of can | | | | are just too many other ways that you can get hurt |
| very easily knock you unconscious. To my | | | | wakeboarding. You hear about a lot of blown knees, |
| knowledge, there is not a wakeboard cable park that | | | | broken legs, and dislocated shoulders assocated with |
| does not require that a helmet be worn at all times | | | | wakeboarding so why not wear a helmet and help |
| to prevent such things from happening. Many of | | | | protect yourself from the head injuries? |
| those in the sport, myself including, are now | | | | |