Re: [RC] Helmets - SandyDSA
Seems to me that with both motorcycles and horses, if one chooses not to wear a helmet, they should have that choice. AERC chooses not to put those people on its front cover, and we do not allow anyone without a helmet on our horses for lessons or for pleasure. I would think a very quick way to make certain those with nothing they want to protect don't cost the rest of the taxpayers or horseowners anything is to simply mandate that head injuries causes while involved voluntarily in a sport - without head protection - well, no insurance coverage. WALAA! We protect ourselves in a number of ways, and we DO have the choice. We are, after all, cowboys :) and are proud of our liberties. We do indeed havae the liberty to beat up our very own bodies - and then we have the liberty to fix them if possible - at our own expense. That is pretty simple.
Finally, we have worn head protection for 30 years. Well, not my 15 year old daughter - she has worn it since she was an infant - gonig to my husband's baseball games at UCLA - she wore a darling little velvet hunt cap - so I wouldn't get all freaked out about pop flies. On Friday afternoon, my VERY orally fixated 6 year old who is just sweet and darling, got a rein hooked up in her mouth. When I tried to step off to loosen it, she sunt and I went flying. I landed hard on my tailbone, and in quick succession struck the base of my skull on the hard ground. Thank GOD I had a helmet on - because even with it on, I have a touch of whiplash AND some headaches, following some blurred visions and a day or so of dizziness. (Yes, I know.....). The moral of the story is - on the gentlest of horses, things happen, even when you do EVERYTHING right, as I tell my students. So WHY would you not choose to do EVERYTHING RIGHT??
San ( who plans to go ride said 6 year old orally fixated mare today)
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