Anybody wear wrist guards like they make for rollerblading when riding? I broke my wrist (it’s healed) but would not like to do that again…I tried to look up the topic and didn’t see anything about riding with wrist guards. I don’t know if the height we fall from makes them ineffective as compared to rollerblading?
Personally, I don’t want stiff wrists while I’m riding.
And I think falling from height at speed means that if your wrist doesn’t give, something else is going to.
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not a wrist guard like you mentioned, but a thumb stabilizer, and when I wear that on the odd occasion, I can barely use my hand. I see how one would hurt their wrists (Tried rollerblading a while back, and busted my tail a few times and -as one might have guessed it - landed on my hands) You would have to try to see how they impact your flexibility in the hand while riding.
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Learning to roll/land safely, and how to avoid getting crushed in a rotational fall, rolling away from the direction the horse is moving.
Having taken LandSafe 3 times, I will say Danny is quick to say they are not teaching you to fall, they are teaching you to land/hit the ground safely.
The only distinction is when to let go when the horse passes the point of no-return for a rider in a rotational fall, no matter how strong/fit the rider. Gravity will win.
The last day, you do practice emergency dismounts. I love the training.
I broke both arms in 1994, I think I used my little wrist braces only until my wrists were strong enough. Then I practiced bending my elbows doing dive rolls down hills, well before LandSafe was a thing.
If you don’t learn to dissipate the energy of a fall, wearing a brace will simply move the break further up.
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