Broke four bones in my palm and sprained my wrist while skating in downtown Houston the other day. I truck was coming and it didn’t look like they were gonna stop so I bailed and caught myself with my wrist. A wrist guard would have prevented both the 4 fracture and the sprain. I’m an advanced skater and I still recommend using all of your protective gear because you just never know what’s gonna happen

I had started skateboarding again after 38 years, with 51 right now.. And i crashed very hard at my 1st session, head forward...(too loose bushings) Thankfully i got my wrist guards, helmet and knee-/ elbow protectors on.. My left shoulder and my left leg do hurt now the second day...But i got no serious injuries. Wear your safety stuff! Best regards from Germany.

The mermaid fall is only a possibility in a limited number of situations. I have skated for over 20 years and have fallen in a wide variety of unpredictable circumstances where reflexes and training don’t help at all. In half of my falls, the only thing that has saved me has been my body armor. For example, recently, on a pair of rollerblades, while skating at 15 mph, a screw detached from my right wheel frame and, instantly, I was on thrown foreword and sideways, rolling over my shoulder. Many times I have slid on my wrist guard plates in a somewhat controlled slide. But a few years ago, I fell forward at an odd angle, on a wet surface, with my wrist guards outstretched and a finger hit the concrete at the wrong angle and dislocated. Yesterday, I received in the mail, the (long) Flexmeter wrist guards you showed in the video. Having tried them on, I am not convinced that they are the solution I am looking for. I think they may flex too much. In a high speed crash, I could imagine breaking a wrist while wearing them. Also, they are bulky, awkward and ugly. Nonetheless, wearing wrist, knee, elbow and head protection is essential if you care about preserving your health and your ability to skate for a lifetime. Beginners, especially, need to be completely protected. I have bought many pairs of brand new skates from beginners, who wrecked their bodies and gave up skating for good. And that is a shame.

I highly doubt that wrist guards inrease the likelyhood of radial or ulnar fractures. Just like wrist injuries those happen a lot from falling straight on an extended wrist. I worked in Hand therapy and had many cyclists come in with such cases. The guard would propably absorb some of the force of the impact and also allows you to slide, reducing the blunt trauma further. That protection should also apply to reduce your risk of fractures higher up the forearm. Lastly, i would gladly take a radial fracture over a wrist fracture. It seems to heal with lese complications.

I'm a slalom skater in Australia and I was trying speed skating a couple of years ago and the old speed skaters talked about that urban myth, and one of them had a broken lower arm at the time and claimed it broke exactly the way the myth describes. I'm a bit sceptical about it but happy to be proven wrong. Love your channel, I've skated all my life and I can't count how many broken wrists I have seen over the decades, one thing that always surprises me is how kids and adults that are starting out and really fall over alot don't wear protection, especially if it's a very large heavy person that can't skate and maybe is not used to any athleticism and so does not know how to fall and are not flexible and fast enough to have safe reflexes. One reflex I try to encourage people to develop is to try and take the impact off a fall by changing a slam into a slide or roll. What causes damage on impact is your body slamming against concrete, so if you are falling on the ground or whatever, and you have wrist guards or protection, slide a little.

Helmets, wrist guards, elbow pads, knee pads, are all crucial for safety. Without these pads you can scrape really bad from a fall and get badly injured. All of these are worth the money easily

Great information on safety of the wrist guards. Thanks bro!

This channel is amazing

I think to break the upper wrist you need a lot of force which rarely occurs in inline skating since you would slide forward instead of having to caught your momentum with your wrist. I think the myth emerged from snowboarding, where you can probably break your upper wrist due to wrist guards when you caught your front edge so you fall down downhil and catch yourself with your wirst guards. I can definitly see a broken upper wrist with stiff wrist guards. But i never experienced hits like that with inline skating (unless i skate downhill into a tree, but even then i cant see how i break my upper wrist there).

Deze ga ik er zeker bij kopen wanneer ik me eerste skates ga halen

great video and information. Based on facts.

Dainese Hector Wristguard - best to protect you wirst. I bought it for snowboarding (after few painful injury - once you heart your wirst you will do it again and again - cause it took a long time to heal). I have no more wirst injury after buying hector wristguard. Now i using it for skating.

im looking into wrist guards because i onewheel, its like a electric skate board that in more prone to crashing, but they go ver y fast around 30kmh so i want to protect my wrist

You probably need to ask an Emergency Room doctor to find out if the wrist guard causes a higher break area in forearm.

I have heard that myth being told a bazillion times but never meet anyone who broke their upper wrist because of them wearing a wristguard.

I haven't seen someone actually break their wrist while rollerblading, but I do do wonder if you've tried out palm protector type wrist guards, like Rollerblade brand ones (As opposed to the splint style, which has the rigid L shape piece of plastic sewn in)

How stiff are the Ennui Allrounds compared to the City? I was a bit astounded when you mentioned that the City had a piece of steel in it... I don't remember reading that anywhere!

I want to know why the ennui city brace have a leather palm, it only slides just a tiny bit

I'm looking to buy a pair online, since I don't know any shop close by and don't wanna go far. I fear they will KEEP my wrist somewhat flexed. From my past experience with one which I bought because my wrist was hurting from notebook/keyboard use, the semi flexed position was exactly what was causing me pain. I would like one that allows me to keep them straight most of the time (some flexibility would be good too)

MOST WOMEN’S anatomy is different from men’s, particularly for the upper body- the CHEST. Women have more bodyweight in the chest, and tend to fall forward (arms/hands first) more than men. So the “fall on your knees” advice probably will not work for many women, due to these body/anatomy physics. For this reason, and for NON-aggressive blading, wrist guards probably are the MOST important rollerblade protection FOR WOMEN. Then the helmet and knees, etc. I’ve been recreational - not aggressive, not speed- blading since late 1980s, and in several countries, and this has been true for me. Thanks.

My esk8 board slipped from under me and I went over backwards, my hand whipped out slapping the tar breaking my fibular. A wrist-guard would've prevented it, now got plaster up to my shoulder

0:55 ohh, here in Chile we say "Mejor prevenir que sanar" maybe there's that sentence in other languages

How you supposed to fall on your knees when skating on quads and falling backwards

I've tried wearing wrist guards, but I found my grinds felt wrong. I find when I'm grinding and holding a position my hands need to go into different positions for each trick otherwise i can't stay balanced and the wrist guards limit the movement of my hands and wrist too much. I do wear knee pads now and find they are great I can forget they're on and just do my thing I've got the core pro gasket knee pads and I'd highly recommend them. P.s. if anyone is looking at ennui wristguards they fit small in my opinion!

This is awesome, thanks! And about your question: I had never heard of this rumour, BUT, I recently bought the Ennui city brace and I felt that the second metal piece (on the upper side of the wrist) might actually fracture my arm if I fell hard on it while in a mermaid-like stance, so I took it out. 🙈 should I put it back again?

Not an urban myth. I've done it in the 90s. But I fell an entire story skating out of a mall being chased by security. Jumping down a whole story down into the carpark. I clipped the railing I was jumping and fell head first, used my hands to save my head. Something was bound to break and it was my arm at the end of the guard. Better than my wrist or head, but it happens.

Should they be stiff? I cant move my palm in them is that ok?

Broke my arm yesterday the ONE time I don't wear my guards, gear up people