Pads?

[mariusshobo]

Thanks Rickster

[Johnny]

I ski powder in the woods everyday and never hit anything with my knees. I got hit on my legs, my arms, my eyes, but never on my knees. I don't see how it's possible... There is a ski right underneath your dropped knee to protect you right? Then how can you hit something?

Maybe you mean that you hit your knees after a crash?

[mariusshobo]

I hit once the ice boulder on an steep icy slope. I turn below an ice bulder and very close to it. Somehow I hit the bulder with my knee. Result was one week no running, no skiing; only pool apnea training.

[Bushwhacker]

Yeah, I hit things after a crash. Wore them everyday this season except one powder day. Found some rocks hiding under the blanket and did a somersault and banged my left knee good. Hurts 2 months later. So now, every day. I use G-Form knee pads, pretty flexible. Also have their mountain biking t-shirt with sternum, shoulder and ribcage pads that I sometimes wear if I'm gonna be in the trees a lot. Pretty dorky, kids think I look like Iron Man or something. But tree crash is usually thoracic more than head trauma. Yes, I am not an expert.

[teledance]

Outside of hitting te stump and rock then flopping around I don't understand this crash first concept, crashing is old school. i.e. using leather boots.

[Rickster]

Years ago when Chouinard and other manufacturers came out with tele specific knee pads, an additional concern was slamming your knee into your boards not so much into hidden dangers in the snow. Especially with the lower stance so commonly used back then. Skiing the bumps or otherwise rough terrain, can quickly bring a ski up hard into a low knee, ouch…. I remember that hurting a lot.

[Johnny]

Ahahahah! Crashing is totally old school indeed...!

I never understood that super-low stance thing. Even on floppy leathers, there's no use to go that low under any condition. Plus, it looks terrible... We still see a few people doing it once in a while...

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[mariusshobo]

I don't have a super low stance.
I was exiting a couloir and traversing a very steep face (maybe 60 degrees) on speed, for transfer on another face. The knee was traveling through powder due to the steep slope and I was sure that I would have hit the rock spine dividing the two faces with my knee if not had assumed the parallel position.

[Johnny]

OUCH!!!!!