Ok, though I'm an intermediate rider, I occasionally take some nasty falls. I never got around to learning how to fall properly with my fists clenched and onto my forearm.
I've been wearing the Burton R.E.D. impact wrist guards. They are comfortable, but they don't seem to have any sort of protection running underneath the palm.
I tried the Pro-tec IPS wrist guards which do have protection over the back of the hand and over the palm. This seems to offer more protection, but my main complain is the plastic protection that goes over the palm keeps slipping out of it's pocket. If it slips far enough out, then the protection is compromised, so I returned it to REI.
Recently, I took some hard falls that accumulated and caused me to severely strain my right wrist. Now I'm wondering if I should have stuck with the Pro-tec IPS wrist guards since they seem to offer more protection.
Anyway have a suggestion on some other wrist guards that will offer better protection than the Burton R.E.D. impact wrist guards? Or is it inevitable that I'll end up having some sort of injury no matter which wrist guards I end up with?
I have the SPPro but they come apart after 2 seasons (about 50 days) . The plastic spikes are all gone and I closed the holes with glue (looks like crap). The Kevlar is tough...but the water goes trough it, and it should be lower on the fingers where you actually hold the board. They are not really warm, but they do protect you a lot. I will use the inserts in a different glove-shell next season, unless they improved the design drastically.
It's plastic....some broke and I took the others out (i never liked those spikes). the G-tex holds...but the tip of the fingers and the top, where the rubber meets other fabric, let water in.
They're good if it's a cold crisp day...but if it starts warming up or it's wet snow...not good. I do feel I can plow trough branches with them thou..they are hella tough.
Flexmeters are the best wristguards I've ever used. The gloves are crap, but the standalone single splint wristguard + a high quality glove is my preferred setup. The flexmeters themselves are a bit bulky, so you're pretty likely to have to size up on the glove, but they're very comfortable to wear and provide excellent progressive protection, so they absorb a lot of impact before transferring it anywhere.
I have a pair of level superpipes as well, and they're a really nice glove, but the wrist protection just isn't as good.
Thanks for review! Irahi, when you remove that small triangular shaped thing of the All Season ones, is there still some hard material to protect the palm or just neoprene, or something else? I understand, that All Season are more bulky, but I'm not sure, if Single ones will give enought protection, if I will fall on the ice or rail/box really bad. What do you think about it?
The all season ones do have a plastic splint inside the neoprene on the bottom side in addition to the hard plastic removable shell, so they are fundamentally different in that regard. The bottom splint is pretty flexible though, and doesn't seem to have the same graduated compression design that the top has, so it doesn't resist more the farther you bend it. The bottom splint does not seem to provide any extra protection against hyperextension (bending your wrist backwards,) it only provides more protection against direct impacts (like hitting a rail) and bending your wrist forwards (which isn't very likely to happen on a board.)
I find that the neoprene on the bottom side of the single splint is enough to take hits on ice just fine, the only thing it wouldn't stand up to is if you managed to take a shot directly on the wrist from say... a sharp corner on a rail and it managed to puncture your glove. Otherwise it does just fine on flat, hard surfaces, and the joint protection is second to none.
The all season wristguard's advantage is definitely suited more for street play, it doesn't help with joint damage, but it does help protect against straight impact damage on hard, edged surfaces, or rough surfaces like pavement.
Most forearm protection doesn't really fit with the flexmeters, you'd definitely have to get it over the wristguards, which can be a challenge since most armor is designed to fit close to skin. For reference, they reach about halfway to my elbow, so anything that comes down farther than that will be an uncomfortable fit.
Irahi, thanks for all the information on the Flexmeter. I ordered the double-splint version already.
looking4snow, if the elbow armour/pads can go over the end part of the Flexmeter, then it may work. The Flexmeter goes up quite a bit up your forearm. I think the total length is around 9" or so, so measure from your knuckles to approximate where it ends. The Dainese may work OK since there are velco straps (assuming the straps are long enough to accommodate the Flexmeter. But the Forcefield Limb Tube is designed to be a snug fit, so I think you will have trouble sliding that thing over the Flexmeter.
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