Protective gear is essential when skate boarding. The essential gear to have is a helmet, knee pads, elbow pads, wrist guards, and a ankle braces. Personally I typically just wear the helmet, but that is only because I am strapped for cash and currently cannot afford all of these items. So if you are like me a poor college student at least get the helmet. A helmet can save you from some extremely nasty falls and potentially save your life. On the internet you can see thousands of videos of skate boarding injuries, and by far the worst kind to witness are head injuries. In a majority of these videos the skaters are going extremely fast and their board flies out from underneath them creating a whipping motion and smacking the back of their head against the ground. The worst video I witnessed was in regards to a guy bleeding from his ears after hitting his head so hard. This is why I must urge all of you to at the very least buy a helmet. The other injuries which are most common to skate boarders involve the wrists and the ankles. When falling, you typically catch yourself before you hit the ground with your hands which puts and extreme amount of pressure onto your wrists. The wrist guards are able to take a majority of the shock enabling you to not break your wrists. The last piece of equipment I would like to touch on are the ankle braces. The most common injury of skaters involves breaking the ankle or a horrible sprain, do yourself a favor and invest in ankle braces.
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