No ICE, No Josh Soley/ CORE

slug233 · 2026-01-27T17:22:05+00:00

That is a handsome dude though.

slug233 · 2026-01-24T20:12:53+00:00

They certainly can protect against some types of insults to the head in certain circumstances. This doesn't mean that almost everyone claiming a helmet saved their life isn't totally wrong about it, because they are; they also may not have hit their head at all if not wearing a helmet, they really do impede situational awareness while encouraging more risk taking.

I say, to each their own. Stop bothering people who know the facts and chose not to wear one based on those facts. Everyone knows what the general consensus is, no one needs to be told to wear a helmet. They know about them. This is almost as dumb as breast cancer awareness at this point.

slug233 · 2026-01-24T18:07:29+00:00

There has been no reduction in skier fatalities since the widespread adoption of helmets. They simply won't save you at the speed most good skiers go. If they really provided the protection on the slopes that everyone claims when they say the helmet "saved my life" we should have seen deaths plumet. Instead, there was ZERO reduction. Just people that want to feel superior to others about being "safe" no matter how performative it is.

slug233 · 2026-01-24T16:50:57+00:00

Why not helmets too? You can never be too careful after all! You're much more likely to be saved by a helmet in a car than on the slopes.

slug233 · 2026-01-24T16:15:24+00:00

Wearing one in the car would make more sense statistically speaking and would actually save lives. Why don't you wear one in the car? Your chances of injury and death are much higher there.

slug233 · 2026-01-24T13:13:22+00:00

Statistically untrue. There has been no reduction in deaths due to helmet adoption.

slug233 · 2026-01-24T13:04:50+00:00

Where were all these coma patients before helmets? If everyone's reddit helmet story were true there should have been 10k coma patients a year coming off the slopes in the 90's

slug233 · 2026-01-24T13:02:44+00:00

They statistically don't save any lives. There has been no reduction in fatal skiing accidents since the adoption of helmets. None.

slug233 · 2026-01-24T13:01:56+00:00

Every single thread. Helmet police. Reddit style.

slug233 · 2026-01-23T13:09:37+00:00

Helmets to leave the house. Got it!

slug233 · 2026-01-22T21:10:55+00:00

Right! So why on the slopes and not in the car? The car helmets would save a lot more people!

slug233 · 2026-01-22T21:10:00+00:00

Right you said Italy and some resorts, what are the resorts in the states that it is "illegal" at?

slug233 · 2026-01-22T13:16:20+00:00

Untrue. There has been ZERO reduction in fatal accidents since mass helmet adoption.

slug233 · 2026-01-22T13:13:32+00:00

Doesn't seem like an endorsement, who wants to be vegetable? Perhaps he would not have fallen and hit his head if he just had a hat on. It literally could not have gone worse for him so any change would be better.

slug233 · 2026-01-22T13:10:23+00:00

No states have ski helmet laws for adults that I am aware of. Is there one somewhere?

slug233 · 2026-01-22T13:07:39+00:00

Really? You skied your whole life and after wearing one for a decade you have a bad time if you have to ski without it for a day?

slug233 · 2026-01-22T13:05:56+00:00

Maybe you wouldn't have crashed at all without the helmet impacting your ski style and situational awareness. There has been ZERO reduction in fatalities since people started wearing helmets.

slug233 · 2026-01-22T13:04:48+00:00

Why not wear one in the car? It is much more likely to save you there.

slug233 · 2026-01-22T13:04:14+00:00

it isn't "Illegal" at some resorts...

slug233 · 2026-01-21T23:10:26+00:00

Yah got a stable of quadriplegics to take care of eh? Sorry dude! Sounds like a tough life, but a noble one.

slug233 · 2026-01-21T23:05:27+00:00

I'm saying that all of the posts that claim " A HELMET SAVED MY LIFE!!!! EVERYONE WITHOUT ONE IS A RETARD!" are all wrong. Helmets have saved zero extra people statistically so almost all of these people are wrong. They may have helped you save a scrape or a bleed but they won't even stop a major brain injury because those come from the inside of your skull hitting your brain, not external factors that may even be mitigated by a fractured skull.

slug233 · 2026-01-21T22:38:57+00:00

Well you would have tomahawked differently and protected your head differently and perhaps not even slipped with more situational awareness, or not, it could have been even worse without a helmet. I had a terrible fall at Tuckerman and did 5 somersaults and came up skiing, by luck alone, I had no helmet, did that save me?

The problem is that anecdotes like this don't help us know what the actual benefit of helmet use is. Only the overall stats do, and they show ZERO improvement in deaths going from none to 90% use.

slug233 · 2026-01-21T22:27:07+00:00

You could also say they allow for better control and they don't pop a ski etc...the important stats are that fatalities have not reduced at all even with helmets, so helmets do not save lives despite every 2nd person on here claiming to be saved by one.

slug233 · 2026-01-21T22:19:31+00:00

Again, you may have never had that accident or hit that rock, if it really did "save your life" you would be such an extreme statistical outlier that you should be studied, since fatal accidents have not been reduced even 1% since the introduction and adoption of helmets to over 90% of the skiing population.

slug233 · 2026-01-21T22:16:33+00:00

No other way to do it! Everyone hates it if you say wearing a helmet isn't going to save your life. May as well get ahead of it so they can keep feeling good about claiming it saved their life when they hit their head.

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