Protection

I decided to wear protection after playing against a drunk Bill

Ha!

i'll be selling my bern with cricket guard for a very reasonable price. It has some really sweet stickers on it.

what size B?

Pretty sure you still owe me beers for the guard I gave you. Where's the polo IOU thread...

I also have a bern for sellz with sweet winter ear warmers with a speaker in, and removable summer visor.

Anyone got a helmet + faceguard going cheaps, in a medium? Atleast that's the size of normal helmet (55cm-59cm)

I totally missed the discussion above, which I believe needs an airing in another thread, particularly the high-sticking / drunk players thing.

I found the discussion above very interesting, although I've only just managed to read through it properly. It reminded me very much of the many discussions around risk compensation that are usually had outside of polo, e.g. on the issue of cycle helmets but also on seat belt legislation. The work of John Adams is particularly noteworthy in this regard. Essentially, if people feel more protected, he argues, they take more risks, effectively negating the theoretically positive effect of protection. Lots to read here:

http://www.john-adams.co.uk/papers-reports/

It may at first glance sound about as interesting as eating sawdust, but as you get into it you realise how fundamental and important our attitude to risk, and related policy interventions, really are.

My own experience as a (still) non-polo player at the London Open was that I was quite surprised by how equipment has changed since the last tournament I watched, the 2009 EHBPC. It seemed to me that people crashed more than two years ago, but that may just be bad memory, and anecdotally I can't make any meaningful comparison.

I don't think you're right to say more people crashed in 2009. The bike-handling skills, & spatial awareness has improved immeasurably since then.

I think Oliver was actually saying the opposite Bill, but I agree with you, there is alot less crashing than there used to be.

Yes, I misread that. Changed my post so that you look like an idiot.

No change there then.

Anyone got a helmet + faceguard going cheaps, in a medium? Atleast that's the size of normal helmet (55cm-59cm)

What's your budget? Just ordered one of these for £33:http://www.sportswarehouse.co.uk/products/Grays-Hockey-Helmet.html

I don't think you're right to say more people crashed in 2009.

Yes, that was only a superficial impression--I didn't mean to say that it was actually the case. It's probably just that I haven't watched much polo for a while, and lack the experience of playing it.

The bike-handling skills, & spatial awareness has improved immeasurably since then.

That is obviously going to be one of the more important factors, and easily capable of offsetting more minor trends. I think what may have skewed my perception was that I couldn't remember as many unforced crashes from two years ago, e.g. when people tried to turn tight corners fast and then crashed without anyone else being near, but perhaps that's only because they surprised me more and therefore seemed more frequent than they actually were.

Pretty sure you still owe me beers for the guard I gave you. Where's the polo IOU thread...

I also have a bern for sellz with sweet winter ear warmers with a speaker in, and removable summer visor.

ludo would be intersted in this if it fits, how much you want for it joni?

It's a small and the whole accessory set up is £80 worth of helmet. True fax. £30 to a polo sister.

It's this one
http://www.bargainboards.co.uk/P/Bern_BRIGHTON_HARD_HAT_Audio_Snowboard_Helmet_L_PurplePlaid-(28236).aspx
but with the summer visor as well.

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I have a medium (58cm) dark red protec for sale, the basic model. Only used a few times, couple of scratches and some stickers.

£10

that medium might suffice sandy, joni hold tight... when you around sandro?

Brendan I bought a softball cage (like Joni's fixcraft) but now I have a hurling helmet, I have zero use for it. Unless Ludo is not wanting a cage?

You need a helmet with a beak for those fixcraft/softball cages, right?

that medium might suffice sandy, joni hold tight... when you around sandro?

Going to Norths later tonight but not til 8ish

Otherwise I'll be playing somewhere on the weekend.

weekend it is. @erin, i was going to mod (sandys / jonis) with my cricket grill. What happened to you hockey helmet E?

Still got the hockey helmet, but it was occluding my peripheral vision, finding the hurling helmet a lot better. Thinking the hockey helmet is a wee bit big..

Ah, so you've got a cricket grill. Ludo would be very welcome to try to the hockey helmet, but I'd say it'd be too big.

You need a helmet with a beak for those fixcraft/softball cages, right?

No. I bent the metal in to shape quite easily on my non-peaked protect helmet.
The fixcraft one has a 'ledge' of metal that goes under the peak, the softball cages don't IIRC. I think there will need to be a bit of metal manipulation regardless.

Handy bauer / face cage parts
http://www.puckstop.com/acatalog/Helmet__Cage_and_Visor_Accessories.html

I'm looking for the 'male' version of this if anyone has a clue where to look?
http://www.puckstop.com/acatalog/Cage_Visor_Chin_Strap_plastic_clip.html

it's on your other link! 'helmet dome screw'

good bookmarks, max lost a dome screw last week I think