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Location: Okla | I applaud Fallon for sporting a helmet! Yes helmets are a choice we can make. I for one made that choice after my bout with breast cancer. I've got too much to live for, and I'm not going to let one horse accident end it for me.  |
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Location: North Dakota | TxBronc - 2014-12-12 3:02 AM I think the helmets are ugly. Just my opinion.
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Location: The edge of no where | DunIt - 2014-12-12 9:44 AM Or you can go by her booth and see them......she conveniently has them for sale
GOOD for her!!!! I don't wear a helmet, probably should....but I LOVE that she's working to make it acceptable. I cringe watching so many little girls ride and I've watched so many come off. If this makes it easier for them to wear a helmet and not worry about getting made fun of, then more power to her! If I had a child, they would be wearing a helmet every time they got on a horse. |
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| Just Bring It - 2014-12-12 8:53 AM
TxBronc - 2014-12-12 3:02 AM I think the helmets are ugly. Just my opinion.
Know what else is ugly? A smashed in skull.
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Location: Where I am happiest | https://www.facebook.com/ranchdressnapparel/photos/a.618459671556236.1073741827.618198984915638/770070016395200/?type=1&theater |
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| DunIt - 2014-12-12 9:44 AM
Or you can go by her booth and see them......she conveniently has them for sale
HOW COOL for those little girls going to the NFR that wear helmets... To get one there from Fallon Taylor. Kudos to her. She is trying to build a brand.  |
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Location: Texas | MNcanchaser7 - 2014-12-12 8:10 AM
Just Bring It - 2014-12-12 8:53 AM
TxBronc - 2014-12-12 3:02 AM I think the helmets are ugly. Just my opinion.
Know what else is ugly? A smashed in skull.
I would rather be alive and able to enjoy spending time with my husband and daughter at the end of the day than to be fashionable and vain. |
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| I am not downplaying helmet use. I am curious as to whether helmets prevent concussion? I have had a concussion explained to me as the brain bouncing against the inside of your skull when you take a whack on the head, or, say when your head whacks the ground.
Football players still suffer concussions from hits and it's not just when their helmet comes off.
Does anyone know?
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Location: North Dakota | A helmet does not prevent all concussions but they definitely can lessen the severity of the injury. I would gladly take a mild concusion over a cracked skull any day. I have had a concussion and blacked out and I think it would not have been so traumatic had I been wearing a helmet. |
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Location: North Dakota | bennie1 - 2014-12-12 10:32 AM I am not downplaying helmet use. I am curious as to whether helmets prevent concussion? I have had a concussion explained to me as the brain bouncing against the inside of your skull when you take a whack on the head, or, say when your head whacks the ground. Football players still suffer concussions from hits and it's not just when their helmet comes off. Does anyone know?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2014/06/20/helmets-safety-... |
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Location: ND--it snows, it floods, it snows, it floods | bennie1 - 2014-12-12 10:32 AM I am not downplaying helmet use. I am curious as to whether helmets prevent concussion? I have had a concussion explained to me as the brain bouncing against the inside of your skull when you take a whack on the head, or, say when your head whacks the ground. Football players still suffer concussions from hits and it's not just when their helmet comes off. Does anyone know?
They do make helmets for football players that have had concussions a little different from what I understand. My nephew suffered a concussion and this year his coach had a special helmet ordered for him. I'm not sure what is all different with it but I know it's specfically made for concussions. |
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Location: East of the Pecos | LuckyNGG'sGirl - 2014-12-11 11:53 PM Wish I could credit the writer, but I'm not sure who wrote it. "Every time I see someone ranting about how helmets are a personal choice I think: That's a pretty selfish choice. You splatter yourself, you want to know what happens? You traumatize the person/people who see it happen or find you. You cause untold amounts of grief for ANYONE who cares about you. You force your family to pay for a funeral for your splattered body. Your horse will probably be sold on to someone else. Maybe they'll get lucky, or maybe your family will blame him and dump him at an auction. And he won't get lucky. But you have no control over any of it, because you're DEAD. That's assuming you die. If you don't die, and just get a traumatic brain injury... Well its your lucky day, ain't it? Maybe your ability to breathe will be compromised, and they'll alter your airway so you breathe through a hole in your neck. Maybe you'll be incontinent and spend the rest of your life in diapers, sh*tting your pants. Maybe you'll be REALLY **** LUCKY, have to relearn to walk, talk, feed yourself and wipe when you go to the bathroom. And have a sort of normal life afterwards. Or you could put on a helmet. It might hurt your pride. It might make your head sweaty! You might not look as picture perfect without your hair flying loose. But you're a hell of a lot less likely to get yourself killed that way."
Given this rant directed at "selfish" non helmet wearers, does it change your opinion of anyone in the spotlight who doesn't wear a helmet? Do you see them as selfish? I'm talking about the big guns who set examples like world champions Sheri Cervi, Charmayne James, Martha Josey, or any of the top 15 at the NFR this week. I want someone to give me just ONE reason Martha Josey (or any top clinician) doesn't wear a helmet to set an example to the thousands of kids she instructs. |
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Location: Blissfully happy Giants fan!!! | I can't tell you how awesome I thought it was that Fallon wore a helmet...and not just on one night but she saw the opportunity to start a movement and she is running with it. Shoot I HOPE she makes money off of this. The awareness and the attention she has brought to our sport in just a few short days is more than years and years and years of a small group of people talking about it.
I wear a helmet and have my whole life. My parents (thank GOD) were on the forefront of it. In the association I used to ride in, my sister and I were one of the first to ride in one. And then it became mandatory for kids under 18 to wear one (and still is).
I can tell you a helmet saved my life. I was 18 and I was riding a horse that was new to me (my sister's). That day I had literally changed from my old helmet (which I had worn in for probably 6 years by then but never had an accident in) to a brand new one. I didn't have a lot of room to shut the horse down and I wanted him to go right-he wanted to go left. RIght at the last second, we both changed our minds and I went head first into 6 inch steel-not hallow. It knocked me out and when I came to I didn't have feeling on my left side of my body for about 5 minutes. I had a nasty concussion and jacked my shoulder but for the most part I walked away from the accident. The doctors and paramedics saw my helmet and told me and my friends they were 100% sure without that helmet at best I would have been a vegetable and worse case dead.
I have never not worn a helmet when I run. IMO it is part of my gear. My horses get their boots on and I get my helmet on. And I would rather forfeit an entry fee than not ride with it on. I hate the visors so I don't have a helmet with that little visor sticking out. Mine is lightweight too which I really like. Fits my head real snug.
I will fully admit that running barrels is the only time I wear it. Yes, I know I run a risk every time I get on a horse. But I think the increased risk is about as much as me driving here in Tyler. But going mach 10 around a barrel to trust a 1,200 pound horse to turn it safely? Yeah, that is infinitely more riskier.
I am proud of Fallon and I am proud of Diamonds and Dirt for helping the movement continue. Massive change won't happen overnight but maybe we get some more kids to wear one now because of Fallon. That is a pretty dang good start IMO. |
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Location: Where I am happiest | Bug Is Alive - 2014-12-12 11:03 AM LuckyNGG'sGirl - 2014-12-11 11:53 PM Wish I could credit the writer, but I'm not sure who wrote it. "Every time I see someone ranting about how helmets are a personal choice I think: That's a pretty selfish choice. You splatter yourself, you want to know what happens? You traumatize the person/people who see it happen or find you. You cause untold amounts of grief for ANYONE who cares about you. You force your family to pay for a funeral for your splattered body. Your horse will probably be sold on to someone else. Maybe they'll get lucky, or maybe your family will blame him and dump him at an auction. And he won't get lucky. But you have no control over any of it, because you're DEAD. That's assuming you die. If you don't die, and just get a traumatic brain injury... Well its your lucky day, ain't it? Maybe your ability to breathe will be compromised, and they'll alter your airway so you breathe through a hole in your neck. Maybe you'll be incontinent and spend the rest of your life in diapers, sh*tting your pants. Maybe you'll be REALLY **** LUCKY, have to relearn to walk, talk, feed yourself and wipe when you go to the bathroom. And have a sort of normal life afterwards. Or you could put on a helmet. It might hurt your pride. It might make your head sweaty! You might not look as picture perfect without your hair flying loose. But you're a hell of a lot less likely to get yourself killed that way." Given this rant directed at "selfish" non helmet wearers, does it change your opinion of anyone in the spotlight who doesn't wear a helmet? Do you see them as selfish? I'm talking about the big guns who set examples like world champions Sheri Cervi, Charmayne James, Martha Josey, or any of the top 15 at the NFR this week. I want someone to give me just ONE reason Martha Josey (or any top clinician) doesn't wear a helmet to set an example to the thousands of kids she instructs.
This is where I give Fallon HUGE props for stepping out, and stepping UP to the plate to break that mold. Now, with 2 very good charities with awsome causes putting it out there for the NFR barrel racers this year to wear one , and Fallon putting it out there she will match the donations, YEP, I sure do look at it as selfish. I have a whole new respect for Fallon now. She is confidant within herself to step out there! I cant believe, even for just one night they cant/wont put stuck in the old vanity mold aside. The message it sends is HUGE. We just have to get more used to seeing them, and seeing them in the limelight. More people are getting smarter every day though.
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Location: East of the Pecos | ThreeCorners - 2014-12-12 11:29 AM Bug Is Alive - 2014-12-12 11:03 AM LuckyNGG'sGirl - 2014-12-11 11:53 PM Wish I could credit the writer, but I'm not sure who wrote it. "Every time I see someone ranting about how helmets are a personal choice I think: That's a pretty selfish choice. You splatter yourself, you want to know what happens? You traumatize the person/people who see it happen or find you. You cause untold amounts of grief for ANYONE who cares about you. You force your family to pay for a funeral for your splattered body. Your horse will probably be sold on to someone else. Maybe they'll get lucky, or maybe your family will blame him and dump him at an auction. And he won't get lucky. But you have no control over any of it, because you're DEAD. That's assuming you die. If you don't die, and just get a traumatic brain injury... Well its your lucky day, ain't it? Maybe your ability to breathe will be compromised, and they'll alter your airway so you breathe through a hole in your neck. Maybe you'll be incontinent and spend the rest of your life in diapers, sh*tting your pants. Maybe you'll be REALLY **** LUCKY, have to relearn to walk, talk, feed yourself and wipe when you go to the bathroom. And have a sort of normal life afterwards. Or you could put on a helmet. It might hurt your pride. It might make your head sweaty! You might not look as picture perfect without your hair flying loose. But you're a hell of a lot less likely to get yourself killed that way." Given this rant directed at "selfish" non helmet wearers, does it change your opinion of anyone in the spotlight who doesn't wear a helmet? Do you see them as selfish? I'm talking about the big guns who set examples like world champions Sheri Cervi, Charmayne James, Martha Josey, or any of the top 15 at the NFR this week. I want someone to give me just ONE reason Martha Josey (or any top clinician) doesn't wear a helmet to set an example to the thousands of kids she instructs.
This is where I give Fallon HUGE props for stepping out, and stepping UP to the plate to break that mold. Now, with 2 very good charities with awsome causes putting it out there for the NFR barrel racers this year to wear one , and Fallon putting it out there she will match the donations, YEP, I sure do look at it as selfish. I have a whole new respect for Fallon now. She is confidant within herself to step out there! I cant believe, even for just one night they cant/wont put stuck in the old vanity mold aside. The message it sends is HUGE. We just have to get more used to seeing them, and seeing them in the limelight. More people are getting smarter every day though.
So Sheri Cervi and Martha Josey are selfish and lack confidence in themselves? I'm not trying to be combative, I'm trying to make a point. |
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Location: California | I know people personally who have to take anti-seizure medications for the rest of their lives due to concussions suffered years and years ago from horse related accidents. It doesn't take much to get a concussion. Do not slam someone for using a helmet or endorsing it. Who cares why they are doing it?! The point is that it may influence others to take steps to help prevent an injury that may change their life. So go find some other post to b*tch about because slamming people for using a helmet or endorsing it just makes you look like an ass. |
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