boarderboy Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/sports/snowboarder-kevin-pearce-to-ride-for-first-time-since-accident.html?src=ISMR_AP_LO_MST_FB BB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futahaguro Posted December 9, 2011 Report Share Posted December 9, 2011 Wow. Awesome to hear. I can only imagine how scary something like that would be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gcarve Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 From the all too brief discription of the fall and consequential injury, it sounds like he wasn't wearing a helmet when he fell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobD Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 From the all too brief discription of the fall and consequential injury, it sounds like he wasn't wearing a helmet when he fell Apparently he was wearing a helmet, but that's never going to be total protection. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/outposts/2010/01/snowboarder-kevin-pearce.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncermak Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 he was wearing a helmet. to give you some perspective, a pipe rider rides at similar speeds to us, then launch themselves 15 ft out of the pipe, which has walls cut on a 22 foot radius to vertical. they are approximately 30+ feet from the base of the pipe. KP hit his head on the edge of the pipe practicing double corks, and and then bounced into the pipe. the crash was eerily similar to shaun whites crash during olympic warm-ups, but had a more catastrophic result. KP was the guy who could have taken white off of the podium. He's a great kid, and will undoubtedly go on to great things... I ride for Kevin... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skatha Posted December 17, 2011 Report Share Posted December 17, 2011 Helmets should be considered to be like sunscreen.....something that mitigates but doesn't remove the risk of injury. The threshold of fatal brain injury is a fall that achieves the velocity of 12 mph-sounds ridiculous, I know, but one of my first patients suffered a fatal brain injury sliding off the back of a moped accelerating from a stop. If the helmet adds 10 mph to that threshold, it'll protect 95% of riders. It's all statistics, guys. Kevin fell outside the parameters of what the helmet was designed to protect.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petrol Posted December 18, 2011 Report Share Posted December 18, 2011 Helmets should be considered to be like sunscreen.....something that mitigates but doesn't remove the risk of injury. The threshold of fatal brain injury is a fall that achieves the velocity of 12 mph-sounds ridiculous, I know, but one of my first patients suffered a fatal brain injury sliding off the back of a moped accelerating from a stop. If the helmet adds 10 mph to that threshold, it'll protect 95% of riders. It's all statistics, guys. Kevin fell outside the parameters of what the helmet was designed to protect.... dittos! any helmet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Gendzwill Posted December 18, 2011 Report Share Posted December 18, 2011 From the all too brief discription of the fall and consequential injury, it sounds like he wasn't wearing a helmet when he fell He caught his toe edge coming down from a double cork 1080. It wasn't exactly your average fall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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