Backstory: I’ve never gotten on a board with wheels ever in my life or snowboarded or skied. Bought a new longboard to learn and get used to while waiting for electronics to arrive. Slipped off and messed up my knee pretty bad at like less than 5mph lmao.
P.S. I was wearing regular clothing and no protection
Here’s my question. I want to find protective gear that is easy to wear and remove. Especially KNEE guards. I don’t need the super hardcore kind that you wear by pulling it up your legs from you foot for 50mph downhill riders. I don’t want the kind that clips onto a specific pair of pants only.
I want to find something that’s more like a clip on that I can easily take off after riding and throw in my backpack. Please help me find some!
I’m in Canada Toronto btw!
i find it easier to wear wrist guards than knee guards. If you fall and cushion yourself (fall somewhat correctly) they can take the majority of your fall. Easy to velcro on really quick and not super obvious if you are wearing long sleeves or a jacket.
Have you gone to your local skate shop to talk and see what they have? hard to beat trying a few on to see what you like and fits.
bummer on the fall - but all part of the sport. Hope you heal up quick and all’s well!
at a minimum - wrist guards and helmet. I have enough practice falling that this usually is sufficient. If i’m going to go faster i wear the rest of the gear.
They are motorcycle riding jeans with built in protection, there are lots of other options out there in the motorcycling world with this kind of protection. Seems like they would work well with esk8’s too?
in the last 2 years I had 3 real crashes @ 30kph+ and never wore any protective gear , so I could tell very well where I wouldve needed gear:
3x lower arm & hands (3x bad)
2x ribcage (quite harmless)
1x belly (harmless)
1x lower back & butt (couldnt walk for 2 days, was a contusion, not really skin injury)
so from that experience I decided that its probably a good idea to ride with downhill gloves at least!
Not the boots, just the pants.
And they are very comfortable.
Don’t like the look and sweatiness of leather.
I can wear these with sneakers and a t-shirt and not look like a biker.