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Location: Where I am happiest | Katie's - 2014-12-12 12:29 PM hotpaints - 2014-12-11 5:14 PM FINALLY, we have a female barrel racer willing to endorse riding helmets!! I had hoped this would have happened long ago from Charmayne James or Martha Josey.
This has been long overdue..............professionaly barrel racer wearing/endorsing helmets.
Wondering, do you know what make those helmets are and do you carry them? | |
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Miracle in the Making
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| i don/t read anything about being self i truly don/t see the big deal.
i rode race horses for a living you wore a helment pure and simiple. no big deal my helmentwas as much of me as i my boots.
a helment would not have prevented me breaking my neck. you still can get a concussion or worse but its a matter of chice kinda like when bull riders started where vest
bareback riders wearing collar roll,
its a smart choice and you never got to work about a hat fine lol
i knew fallon had broke c1c2 she is beyond blessed to have no no residue from that horriffic wreck
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Location: Where I am happiest | Crowned Image - 2014-12-12 12:43 PM ThreeCorners - 2014-12-12 1:35 PM Hey I'm about as old school as they come. I'm in my mid 50's and was barrel racing way before the advent of 3D's. Nobody wore helmets then and nobody really required our youth to. Heck, we didnt even have seat belt laws and you could still ride in the back of a pick up! Safety awareness just wasnt what it is today. When my daughter was young and I made her wear a helmet it was epic failure on my part not to be wearing one as well. Actions and example speak louder then words. I was still young then so yep, vanity and my own self confidance were at play. Plus back then the helmet design wasnt near what it is today. Now the helmets have come a long way and I do really like the looks of the helmets Fallon is rock'n.
I am just starting to ride again. Havent really ridden in years except at home on rare occasions. My husband is ever so supportive and thinks it would be good therapy for me after my accident. I now have a good horse here to ride, he bought me a new caldwell for our anniversary, and a heritage brand tack set and he wants us to go play. Mom and Pop style. lol. We have been talking about me wearing a helmet and yep, that is next on my list before I get back on my horse and I do like the looks of the helmets Fallon is wearing. I just have to decide on what color. LOL
Go bright and bold girl!  I have also in the past not worn helmets for vanity, better late than never! WTG!
LOl TYE DYE!! Not so sure I could go that far. But hey, it would go with everything! LOL
Suprised with all the tye dye Fallon wears she doesnt have a tye dye helmet.
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Location: NM...the Land of Manana | Fallon should autograph and auction those helmets, would anyone here bid? | |
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| ThreeCorners - 2014-12-12 10:42 AM brlraceaddict - 2014-12-12 12:29 PM ThreeCorners - 2014-12-11 5:40 PM I have learned through the years that catastrophic brain injuries are not limited to youth. Oregonrieners is a prime example of that, that hits close to home for alot of us here. Our familiers deserve to have us around and kids deserve to have their mothers. Our husbands deserve to have their wives. I was talking to Tonya Hebert last winter in Az. She wears a helmet. We started talking about the helmets and she said "I make my living with my brain. I cant afford to have a bad brain injury and really when you think about it, it's stupid not to". She is an attorney. Is this Tonya Hebert from Washington?
Funny, for most of us,myself included, it takes a bad accident to wake us up. We suddenly become smarter when we are shown just how volnerable we really are and realize we are not invincable. We have just been lucky.
SMALL, SMALL world. I rode at omoksees with her when I was in high school and during summers my first couple years in college. She was always nice as could be. So glad to hear she is doing great and is an attorney. I remember her Dad too, he loved watching her ride at the omoksees, Roland was his name. | |
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| LRQHS - 2014-12-12 12:55 PM Know who else should be wearing helmets? Children on 4 wheelers, dirt bikes and golf carts. I see too many head injuries that could have been prevented.
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Location: Kansas | oh.....my....gosh.....this thread is making my head spin...jeez | |
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| Bug Is Alive - 2014-12-12 12:37 PM 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.
yes yoou are be comabative they are not being selfish how do you figure its a called choice unlike obaman care
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| I have been riding for years and never wore a helmet. Last year I fractured my skull from a horse accident. I was taken flight for life. Keep in mind not all insurances cover things like flight! My flight alone was $19,000!! My sister was there and still can't even talk about the accident. I was unconscious and don't remember anything, but she sure does. She held my head, full of blood until rescue got there. We are both EMT's and i can tell you she has seen some s**t. Family is different. I not only wear a helmet now because I am lucky to be alive, but I also wouldn't hear the end of it my from sister if i didn't! haha It is a choice that is completely optional, I would never make anywhere wear a helmet/ or call them selfish, but just remember it only takes ONE fall. Horses trip, loose their footing, come undone, spook, doesn't matter what kind of rider you are if your horse goes down with you.
I am so happy to see Fallon wear a helmet! Most likely she won't continue, but if it even saves one life by influencing someone, it was all worth it :) | |
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| Up here in NY it is the law that anyone under the age of 18 must wear a helmet while on a horse. While this sent a ripple through our high school rodeo kids at first, eventually most of them easily adjusted to wearing one, and I have yet to hear of anyone of them poking fun at another for wearing a helmet. A cowboy hat is truly traditional and each one is very unique to it's owner so I understand the loyalty to our western heritage when it comes to cowboy hats.
I feel that the hat/helmet debate is something each of us have to decide for ourselves because in the end, we are the ones that have to live with our choices.
I think it is great that Fallon is promoting helmet's even if it is for financial gain. She is still showing our youngsters that it is "cool" to wear one and I applaud her for that.
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Location: East of the Pecos | vjls - 2014-12-12 1:01 PM Bug Is Alive - 2014-12-12 12:37 PM 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.
Just playing devils advocate here because it seems like everytime there is a helmet thread that only the helmet wearers post, the hat wearers are afraid to voice their opinion so they just stay away afraid they will be condemned like we are seeing here, no wonder no one admits to wanting to wear a hat over a helmet, at least on BHW.
You missed the part where posters DID call them selfish, and yes, we can figure it's a choice until the government intervenes in our personal lives again and mandates that everyone in a dangerous sport wear a helmet, like seatbelts, but we aren't there yet, so it's still a choice, Gotta love America where we can be ourselves at least still in the horse world, we have a choice. I think it's funny that some find my choice position as being combative, That shows you are not to open to personal choice, but you want everyone to come over to your belief. No combat, just a fact, wearing a helmet in rodeo and NBHA and most horse venues is still a personal choice, that's all I'm saying. Just respectfully pointing out the other side. You see helmet wearers calling non helmet wearers selfish and having no confidence, but you don't see hat wearers saying anything derogatory about wearing a helmet because they understand it's a choice. Sorry some here don't get it.
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| "Just respectfully pointing out the other side. You see helmet wearers calling non helmet wearers selfish and having no confidence, but you don't see hat wearers saying anything derogatory about wearing a helmet because they understand it's a choice. Sorry some here don't get it."
I fully respect your choice, I truly do. And yes, it is a personal choice, I get it. Although let's face it, every choice does have a consequence, good or bad. My choices will affect my family and my friends, that is just the way it is....every time we put a foot in the stir up with a taking a chance, what we do is dangerous and s**t happens!
I do disagree with you when you say " you don't see hat wearers saying anything derogatory about wearing a helmet...." OH YES WE DO!!! | |
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| I have to disagree with how hat wearers never say anything bad to helmut wearers. Just this weekend at a booth at the Convention Center in Las Vegas, I was told how ugly and stupid people who wear helmuts look and I was purchasing something from this guy. Yeah, I took a little offense to it, but hey to each their own is what I told the guy. He is entitled to his opinion and I to mine.  | |
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Location: Kansas | GLP - 2014-12-12 1:46 PM I have to disagree with how hat wearers never say anything bad to helmut wearers. Just this weekend at a booth at the Convention Center in Las Vegas, I was told how ugly and stupid people who wear helmuts look and I was purchasing something from this guy. Yeah, I took a little offense to it, but hey to each their own is what I told the guy. He is entitled to his opinion and I to mine.
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Location: East of the Pecos | love2ridepre - 2014-12-12 1:41 PM "Just respectfully pointing out the other side. You see helmet wearers calling non helmet wearers selfish and having no confidence, but you don't see hat wearers saying anything derogatory about wearing a helmet because they understand it's a choice. Sorry some here don't get it." I fully respect your choice, I truly do. And yes, it is a personal choice, I get it. Although let's face it, every choice does have a consequence, good or bad. My choices will affect my family and my friends, that is just the way it is....every time we put a foot in the stir up with a taking a chance, what we do is dangerous and s**t happens! I do disagree with you when you say " you don't see hat wearers saying anything derogatory about wearing a helmet...." OH YES WE DO!!!
I have personally never seen anyone say something to a helmet wearer, and I respect everyone's choice to do what makes them feel comfortable. I think it's sad that anyone at all would say something derogatory about wearing a helmet, and all it shows is there are some sad people in the world, which we all know anyway. For some people, the only way they can feel self important is to put someone else down.
I agree that s**t happens, it's a part of life. For those who wear helmets, I say do it proudly, it's your choice, and don't worry about what others say. For those who choose to wear a hat, same thing, do what feels best for you personally, and don't worry about what others say.
This is all I have to say, it's sad that the hundreds of hat wearwers on here won't speak up and defend their choice, I was just presenting the other side in order to point out that the post about people who do not wear helmets are selfish, that was my only gripe. So, to those that missed it, there is definitely a post here that calls non helmet wearers selfish and worse. Go read it and you'll see it's the reason for my comments defending the untruth of that statement. Hard to get that point across for some reason. 
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| hoofs_in_motion - 2014-12-12 1:47 PM
GLP - 2014-12-12 1:46 PM I have to disagree with how hat wearers never say anything bad to helmut wearers. Just this weekend at a booth at the Convention Center in Las Vegas, I was told how ugly and stupid people who wear helmuts look and I was purchasing something from this guy. Yeah, I took a little offense to it, but hey to each their own is what I told the guy. He is entitled to his opinion and I to mine.
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Location: East of the Pecos | GLP - 2014-12-12 1:58 PM hoofs_in_motion - 2014-12-12 1:47 PM GLP - 2014-12-12 1:46 PM I have to disagree with how hat wearers never say anything bad to helmut wearers. Just this weekend at a booth at the Convention Center in Las Vegas, I was told how ugly and stupid people who wear helmuts look and I was purchasing something from this guy. Yeah, I took a little offense to it, but hey to each their own is what I told the guy. He is entitled to his opinion and I to mine. LOL! I should have.
I resent helmet wearers calling me selfish just like you don't want anyone saying something offensive about helmet wearers. | |
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Location: Oklahoma | I will admit... I sold both my nice english helmets and I haven't bought a new one and have ridden without one for the last few years. I don't bash on anyone. I do feel that anyone under the age of 18 should have to wear a helmet, but adults can make their own choices and to each their own. | |
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| Bug Is Alive - 2014-12-12 2:07 PM
GLP - 2014-12-12 1:58 PM hoofs_in_motion - 2014-12-12 1:47 PM GLP - 2014-12-12 1:46 PM I have to disagree with how hat wearers never say anything bad to helmut wearers. Just this weekend at a booth at the Convention Center in Las Vegas, I was told how ugly and stupid people who wear helmuts look and I was purchasing something from this guy. Yeah, I took a little offense to it, but hey to each their own is what I told the guy. He is entitled to his opinion and I to mine. LOL! I should have.
Did you even read my post?! I said TO EACH THEIR OWN and HE IS ENTITLED TO HIS OPINION AND I TO MINE. Geez. | |
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