What do you guys think of these? (Crash Pads)

i'm not really looking into buying them i'm just curious.

what if they were cheaper/ less pads. Sort of like hot chillis with some hip/ light thigh pads thrown on for rail falls?
 
all of you saying that hes a pussy are retarded. he doesnt want bruises on his legs from rails and stuff probably cause he actually tries things that are risky and he falls from. they dont hinder movement and you barely notice them. so why not have them? you cant notice them through snowpants.
 
i used them most of this past season and they actually didnt help as much as they did the first time i got them which was my second year freeskiing. i would only suggest these pads to people that are sort out starting out on rails or if they still fall a lot on rails
 
ya....ur all douches....i wear the hip ones now because i have serious nerve damage in my thigh from a couple serious rail falls...to the point where i cant feel anything in my upper left leg..its like it permanently fell asleep, and its permanently bruised...so of course i wear those now, just so i dont fuck myself anymore
 
" Whether you’re a snowboarder, skateboarder, inline skater, or mountain biker, these padded shorts will save your skin."

dude read the description they dont work for skiing
 
crash pads are the best thing i have ever bought related to skiing. i hate huge lumpy purple things on my thighs so these are killer. i can barly even feel it when i fall on rails or hard east coast ice landings.
 
then your a pussy too! i might fall and get hurt ohno. better wear a ton of pads. while your at it might as well break out the old yellow and blue rectors.
 
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for all you haters i'm not thinking about buying these, this is market research.

anything that could be done to these pants to make you want to buy them more?

thanks +karma to all the helpful posters thus far
 
here's a serious answer.

the way the company itself markets on its website turns me off enough to look around for a competitor's product if i was in the market for something like those.

personally, i feel companies that use variations of "extreme" or "x-treme" or a bootleg copy of the x-games logo like this one did are condescending to my demographic and pander to the type of people who do sports like snowboarding or fmx or skiing because they like to talk about how radical they are at parties.

using "extreme" to attract the 12-34 actions sports demographic has far outlasted its usefullness due to saturation of the concept in the market. it has become very transparent and most people in that demographic have been exposed to advertising campaigns long enough to be savvy to the fact they are being treated like idiots.

for god sakes now even doritos are extreme. how good of a company can something like this be for action sports if the only way the company can market itself is the same way doritos and capri sun and american express and chapstick and wal mart childrens bikes and hundreds of other products do.

even companies entrenched in the action sports world who could feasably use "extreme" without irony are feeling backlash to the concept. companies like burton are having to use even more counterculture approaches to their marketing like that poaching contest this past winter to escape being lumped in with all the other psuedo extreme marketing ploys.

i think that a bunch of the above posters who called them gaper pants or asked if you needed vagisil were feeling the same way i do too, they just had a little more hate in their hearts.
 
i have the hip pads i dont use them all the time but i do like them and they save your hips my hips are fucked up soo they treat me nice other than that i really dont ever even wear a helmet.
 
fuck rails, just wait till you hip check a rock and break your femur, fuckin idiot. pads do a lot more then stop bruises, they can be the difference between a broken bone and a sore thigh.. i wouldn't call not wanting to break a bone being a pussy, i'd call it wanting to ski an entire season.

i wear mine when i big mountain ski and for urban rails..
 
or you could just not get hurt. i had more injurys in my snowbaord career and not one of them would have stop had i had on fag pads or a helmet. 25+ years and now i need to put on pads fuck off.

but i do agree with who ever said they cant stand the X-treme marketing aproch. i for one cant stand it either i support things that are core, and not comp trying to jump on the back end of a "fad"
 
if you dont get hurt that means you arent trying anything new.... and if youre trying spins on rails and happen to fall why wouldnt you want them
 
Well that's just the website that's selling them no the actual manufacturer's website.

And I'd like to check some out in person to see if they could actually help. If they are going to help to keep me from getting hurt so I can ski longer and with less pain, why the hell wouldn't I wear them? Nobody can see them under pants so I can still tell people that I am super hardcore and I prefer being hurt to avoiding injury.
 
*cough cough* anyone interested don't buy these yet

something tells me there'll be some cheaper, more freestyle skiing oriented ones coming out sometime before winter.......
 
dude crash pads are the best if you want to learn new tricks. i love learning new tricks and i hate not being able to sit down in school therefore crashpads kick ass. just because im a girl doesnt mean i cant take falls i would just rather them not hurt as bad.
 
The top left ones in that link looked decent. The rest I wouldn't buy. But I love my Red Impact shorts (the first model, not the garbage surf shorts ones). The don't really restrict movement if you take the pads on the top of the thighs out (which I find you don't need). BTW, I hardly ever ski park, I wear mine doing big mountain stuff. If this is for market research, make the pads removable in places and definitely use a hard plastic piece for the tailbone.
 
exactly the same with me. it doesnt hinder movement at all, and i dont get hurt at all anymore. i dont get why that worf guy doesnt want to wear a helmet or pads. i guess hes too cool
 
all you guys saying there just for pussies are retarded. idunno about you guys, but i dont really like getting hurt. its not like they are that bulky under baggy pants either. i guess jackets are for pussies too, real men can withstand the cold.
 
How are your pads going to freestyle ski oriented? Are you going to put a silhouette of a skier doing a mute grab on them?

All you guys saying only pussys wear these. How many of have actually slid down concrete stairs? Since I am skinny and have no actual padding I got bone bruises on the same spot on my hip for 2 years and these help solve that. No they don't fully protect it. I have fallen hard enough to have bruises in the shape of the webbing from the pads, but it would have been worse without it.

And that last pretty long. I bought mine used (disgusting, I know) and they have at least 200 days on the since I have worn them most days in the last 3 years.

If they made pairs that wouldn't make your balls puke out sweat when it's hot out then I would be much more apt to buy them.
 
yeah man I totally am the same, no fat to cushion my hips. I am def gonna get some of these. I've gotten grapefruit-sized lumps on my hips, so bad that when I kept falling on them my vision started going black from the pain.
 
kinda, its only for like 30 seconds and then it ends up not really making sense haha, its pretty funny though
 
the freeskiier orientation will come from pad placement. The pads will be placed a bit differently and they'll fit differently in the groin. There's also going to be a different ventilation system....
 
I am sure different pad placement will be completely innovative and sweep everyone off their feet. And freeskiers have different groins than other people?

Which family member actually provided you funding for this? Rich grandpa figured tossing 5 grand at you would be better than listening to your song and dance for another year?

Sometimes filling a niche in the market is not beneficial. Do you even think the main companies who do this are that profitable when they have way bigger markets (mountain biking)?
 
i might wear them if i was more into the rail-sliding scene, but only do rails every once in a while, i'm usually lining pow or boosting jumps. i know friends who've hurt themselves pretty bad on rails though, i think i'm going to recommend these to them.
 
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