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RE: [RC] Helmet stories - Libby & Quentin Llop DVMI was wearing my Tipperary helmet when I dropped that 1000# round bale on my head last week. I had no head or neck injury which I attribute to the helmet. It could only do so much however. Libby -----Original Message----- From: ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Karen Sullivan Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 11:49 AM To: sjones@xxxxxxxxxxxx; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [RC] Helmet stories Thank you, that is a great link,and I added our story to her website. I am going to help the editor of our local newspaper with an editorial about the importance of wearing protective grear while engaging in recreational sports. I live in a county with a lot of horseback riders, sadly, very few wear helmets but the group of ladies I ride with. The local group of junior riders refuse to wear helmets, despite one of their drill team members nearly getting killed when her horse reared on pavement and she hit her head.....we also have a local woman, mother of two teenage children who went off a 20 ft. ledge last weekend on an ATV, and was not wearing a helmet...now in coma....and at a local rodeo a year ago a young man with two small kids was bucked off, hit his head and died immediately....just too many stories like that. Karen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Jones" <sjones@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 3:22 PM Subject: [RC] Helmet stories Thought this link might be of interest. http://www.horse-sense.org/stories/ To add my own little story: since becoming interested in Endurance, I started wearing a helmet. At a recent clinic where everyone rides Western, a juvenile and I were the only two wearing helmets. After hearing the stories about helmets and falls, it didn't even bother me to be "different". A week after the clinic, I fell off my horse and the back of my head hit the ground hard. Helmet did it's job. The muscles on the sides of my neck and abdomen were very sore the next day (something I don't understand), but never even got a headache. Susan Jones ============================================================ Common sense should also be a part of the decision making process. If you see someone who doesn't have any, hand them your tool box. ~ Lisa Salas - The Odd Farm ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================ ============================================================ Prudence and focus will carry you a long way on a horse. ~ Frank Solano ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================ ============================================================ I still prefer what it is that BH100, Tevis, The Duck's Soup of Endurance, etc. has to offer...but, to see a horse canter over sand for those distances...Good Lord, it humbles me. ~ Frank Solano ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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