Do wear a helmet sport climbing?

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Do you wear a helmet whilst sport climbing?

Yes
12
17%
No
58
83%
 
Total votes: 70

MacGyver
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Post by MacGyver »

Yeah, I have some time to kill and felt like poking the tiger.
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Post by Brentucky »

pigsteak wrote:merely by participating in this thread, y'all aren't cool, and should wear helmets (cause yer gumbs...)
next time i climb one of your dirty routes and pull off a chunk you better watch out because i don't miss twice!!! better bring your helmet gumby-catcher (which makes even the infamous pigsteak a gumby)! :lol:
efil lanrete... i enjoy the sound, but in truth i find this seductively backward idea to be quite frightening
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Post by Brentucky »

hey, i just noticed my posts exceed my climbs (not too impressive i know) so i better get to work!

crap, this is another one! crap!!!
efil lanrete... i enjoy the sound, but in truth i find this seductively backward idea to be quite frightening
gregkerzhner
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Post by gregkerzhner »

Well, considering driving a car is much, much more dangerous than sport climbing, if I ever see the three unlucky souls behind the wheels of their gumby cars, I better fucking see them wearing helmets.
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pigsteak
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Post by pigsteak »

Brentucky wrote:
pigsteak wrote:merely by participating in this thread, y'all aren't cool, and should wear helmets (cause yer gumbs...)
next time i climb one of your dirty routes and pull off a chunk you better watch out because i don't miss twice!!! better bring your helmet gumby-catcher (which makes even the infamous pigsteak a gumby)! :lol:
I was trying to kill a gumb by letting you get dibs on that line :shock:
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Post by Mrs.climbeRPh »

Trad/sport...faith/no faith...steep/slab...flip/no flip... it can all lead to a head injury, and it only takes one time out of a thousand that you have climbed to kill you. I always wear one, even when I am hot and annoyed with it. I'm 46 and I used to feel the same way about helmets for bicycles, skiing and seatbelts, but now they are cool and they obviously make sense. But then it's kind of like free soloing or not which is more frequently risky but with no more ultimate risk. Ah, another one of those controversial 10 page response threads.
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Post by TankAzz »

oops, i just posted about all this in the gumby thread... does that make me a gumby?
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Josephine
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Post by Josephine »

gregkerzhner wrote:Well, considering driving a car is much, much more dangerous than sport climbing, if I ever see the three unlucky souls behind the wheels of their gumby cars, I better fucking see them wearing helmets.
:shock: you seem a bit riled.... "i better fucking see them wearing helmets" the little kid in me says "or what?!!!" :evil: but don't worry, you don't have to follow through on your half-finished threat.

i must confess.

i did wear my helmet on my morning and evening commute. shocking, but true. it's not the same one i climb in, mind you. this one is a much bigger, bright yellow, full-face, DOT-approved helmet. and it makes me very happy every time i put it on - cuz then i get to ride my scooter :D

i guess i look at helmets a bit differently. i've been wearing helmets while doing sports since i was a kid. i used to head down to the river on my horse - no saddle, no shoes - just a swimsuit and a helmet. fun times back then.

i really don't see what the big stigma is against wearing helmets. so what if it looks silly - the people that i want to climb with either dont care or (more likely) realize i'm a lost cause and not worth the effort of trying to get me to see "reason." and the people that let the fact i wear a helmet bother them aren't the kind of people i want around me when i'm climbing anyways.

quite frankly, people are going to do what they want to do. those of us helmet-wearers will continue to wear them. those that don't will continue to not wear them. and those who care about fashion/coolness will continue to do whatever the majority do.
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der uber
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Post by der uber »

Right on Josephine. Helmets are cool, and smart.
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Post by krampus »

be cool, stay in school

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