Persuasive Speech in always wearing a helmet

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Need some links on deaths/serious injuries to back up my speech on always to wear a helmet. not limiting to just skiing, although if i can make a 6-7 minute speech on all skiing i will. any ideas?
 
my friend trevor had a very serious, traumatic head injury and a follow-up re-injury and his sister wrote a blog about his problems and progress that might be of some help to you. if youve seen any of the t-woo stickers, they are for him

http://wakeupwoo.blogspot.com/
 
^ jesus fuck....I cringed

I always wear my helmet, no matter what. you never know what can happen. even if I'm just backyard jibbing I still wear it.
 
I was life flighted from the hellroaring basin of Big Mountain, MT a few years ago and I definitely wouldn't be here today if i didn't have a helmet on

almost all the packages i've sent out in trades and sales on this site i've decorated with "wear your helmet" propaganda.
 
my buddy Danny Toumarkine crashed real bad last season. now he wears a helmet all the time

they made a video on his recovery, pretty neat idea, and EXTREMELY persuasive.

thank god he made it

 
i bet that bad ass handle bar mustache seemed way cooler b4 the accident....kinda blew my mind. guys w facial hair like that should tomahawk into trees and leave the trees looking like this
 
Wow..... I usually have a pretty good stomach for stuff like that but I had to stop watching this one, so bad, wear your helmets kids.
 
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I like my helmet because of the skullcandy headphones that go in it, and also I can put my goggles up on my helmet when I'm hiking and they don't fog up like a hat would. In washington this is kind of a big deal. So, other than the obvious safety benefits, there's like 2 minutes worth of talking points. g/L
 
makes your head heavier causing you to actually hit it harder into things.

the incidence of head injuries with helmets is higher than those with out helmets, mostly owing to the fact people will take bigger risks when they feel that they are "protected".

helmets dont do anything when crashing into a tree at 30+mph

do something interesting and argue against it.
 
Liam Neeson's wife, Sonny Bono, Michael Kennedy. None of them rocked the brain bucket, all of them dead. Better to be safe, than sorry.
 
walk up behind whomever you want to persuade, shoot them in the head with a pellet gun and shout "betcha wish you had a helmet now, dumbass!"
 
You must be trolling, thats got to be one of the stupidest arguments against helmets I have ever heard.

Helmets. Save. Lifes. Get that through your head. If you don't want to wear one, thats your own choice, but c'mon you can't argue that not wearing one is safer than wearing one.

As for the "most head injuries occur with helmets" thing, imagine what those injuries would be like if they weren'

t wearing helmets?
 
heavier head is harder to slow down when whipped into snow/trees.

those injuries wouldnt have happened because the people wouldnt have felt safe to take those risks.
 
the part about having the heavier head isn't so much what I would have agreed with, but it is a FACT that people feel far more secure while wearing a helmet and will take FAR greater risks than they would have were they not wearing one.
 
this argument is pretty fucking stupid and im not going to take the time to refute it because you should just know that its a bad argument. wear a helmet.
 
I'm pretty sure you misunderstood me, I always wear a helmet and always recommend them, but one of the counterarguments for not wearing one(some people say, and I can see where they're coming from) is that they'll be a lot more aggressive, thinking they're far safer than they are sometimes.
 
Ok, here's my view on this topic.

I don't wear a helmet on the majority of days because I think it makes hitting my head actually far worse in most cases. The surface area of a helmet is much greater than that of your actual skull, so on soft of slushy or groomed days, when you hit your head on the snow without a helmet it makes a nice little crater in the snow and you don't feel it too much. When you hit your head on the same snow with a helmet the helmet acts like a snowshoe with greater surface area and you smack your head off the surface of the snow instead of gradually decelerating as your head goes into the snow.

Granted on really icy days, I will wear a helmet, because ice is not forgiving, but any other time I'm not rocking my dome piece. I just started riding helmetless this season and am finding that head impacts hurt less without one.
 
basic physics states that because p=f/a the pressure is transferred across your whole head, that's why the sharper the object the more painful it will be.
 
You're one of the biggest dumbass losers on this website buddy. It's not about surface area anyways, it's about the layer of foam in between the snow and your skull and your fucking brain. The effectiveness of helmets has been methodically and scientifically proven TIME AND FUCKING TIME AGAIN so no matter what, your argument is null. As Dawkins even said, "everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but not entitled to their own facts. Sorry, you're not." case closed
 
Mabeye if you wear a huge motor cycle helmet from the 90's on the hill, but I'm pretty sure with how light helmets are these days this argument is stupid.
 
actually, basic physics states that f=ma so my argument is valid. If my head is slowly decelerating because it pushes into the surface of the snow then the force exerted on my head is less than if I was wearing a helmet with a larger surface area that did not allow my head to sink into the snow. The insides of helmets are actually quite hard and I got tired of hitting my head on soft slush and it hurting more than hitting my head in the same snow without a helmet.

Think of it like this. If you jump off of a cliff into super deep snow with no shoes on, you'll sink into the snow coming to a stop slowly and probably be fine. Now if you jumped off that same cliff with big snow shoes on when you hit that super deep snow you're not sinking into anything and you'll come to a stop as if you were jumping into a parking lot.

if you don't understand this then I have no hope for you.

I'm not saying this is always the case, such as hitting your head on a rail or on concrete, but in soft snow I'm 100% correct.

and on another point, I'm fucking tired of people who

A: Hit their head and say "without my helmet I'd definitely be dead" You have no idea dumbass. Plenty of people tap their heads with helmets on and die and plenty of other people slam without helmets and are perfectly fine.

and

B: Smash their face off a tree and say "my helmet saved my life" No dumbass, you hit your face. Your helmet didn't touch a thing.
 
You're just plain wrong. You need foam cushion to slow the acceleration of your head, soft snow or not. Even in wakeboarding the helmet debate came up, with regards to a helmet adding surface area, supposedly slowing your head down faster rather than the skull "slicing through the water," but again, science proved the cushion was more critical than the difference in surface area. The "inside of the helmet is actually quite hard" like wtf?? It's supposed to fit flush to your skull, as in, your head shouldn't bang against the inside on a fall. It's supposed to be an extension of your skull basically. Science doesn't lie, bro, there are people with fuckin doctorate degrees that will take your argument to hell and back. Hope you never go into a coma man. If helmets have proven to be effective even in WATER, then it applies for even the softest of snow.
 
And every once in a while, it benefits someone to NOT wear a seat belt. Very rarely, but it can happen.

The added weight of a helmet is negligible.

I don't think people look at it as "I'm wearing a helmet, so I'm safe and will try something crazy." It is more along the lines of most people trying crazy things wear helmets nowadays.

It is sort of like avy classes. Most people caught in avalanches have some sort of training. That does not mean having avy training makes one less safe.

Given that someone is going to ski a certain way, having a helmet makes them much safer. Given that someone is going to go into the backcountry, having avy skills makes said person much safer.
 
And what about trees, guys? Essentially concrete poles lining the side of every run. That's how unforgiving they are. They scare me a lot more than the surface of the snow, at least outside of the park, when I'm skiing over 50 miles per hour I feel better with a helmet on in the rare case that I might lose control into the trees...
 
Talk about the guy who hit his head bad with no helmet when doing some urban and he died like 6 hours later. I know someone will know what im Talking about
 
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