Wristguard SLide gloves. ^_^

**rodgon** · 12-31-2009 09:47 PM

see.. as you all know im an artist so i need to protect my hands as good as possible.

i love riding but i used to never be able to fall without hurting my wrist once in a while, it got to the point where i either found a way to prevent those small sprains, or quit...

i realized the solution was very simple. make a Slide glove out of a wristguard. duh!

at first i just got any wristguard and just slapped a slidepuck on it with industrial velcro... but they always were uncomfortable...

i then went to a Play it again sports and found these babies in the used protection stuff bin"

Bone Shieldz elite wrist guards:

They have a small amount of flex to the wrist protection, which allows you to bend you hand enough to place it in a slide position comfortably, and are by far the best protection your hand can have. and for only 15$ a set its a huge deal too.

here are some pics of how i have them:

i currently have just one big slidepuck ( phat Deanz. ) and it fits perfect!

if you want to go with a more full fingered protective glove though you have hillbiily gloves you can use the same way and look cool too.

just another option for those wanting to protect their hands and wrists.

and yeah i know... you might break your arm instead of your wrist...( or so people think) but trust me, a broken arm is infinitely better than a broken or lacerated wrist.) plus its waaaaay harder to break the arm bone.

keep those wrists safe fellow artists and skaters. and stroke the stoke!

**Petary791** · 01-01-2010 12:50 AM

Good thinking. As a musician, I fear the same thing. If I played as much as I did a couple years ago I would definitely be rocking these, but I don't play as much anymore so I'll stick with gloves. Protect your hands dude!

**fishermantpr** · 01-01-2010 10:20 AM

Awesomw, I am recovering froma broken wrist and was about to post about slide gloves with wrist protection. Going to look into those hillbilly gloves.
Thanks rodgon.

**rodgon** · 01-01-2010 01:58 PM

no prob.

glad the post was somewhat informative and helps someone ^_^

**akimaveur** · 01-01-2010 05:56 PM

yeah these are good for not only us musicians and artists alike, but anyone who needs hands you'd think!

i play trumpet so i need my wrist not-broken. i fractured it a year or so ago and im afraid it's a weakpoint

**virtualdude** · 01-02-2010 01:26 AM

Yeah, I've been looking for something like this also. I'm not an artist, but make my living on the computer, so I can't afford a broken wrist either. If you can't use a mouse or type, not a lot you can get done.
Thanks, man!

**urbanasultvehicleuav** · 01-02-2010 01:34 AM

do you know how much it hurt swinging a microphone around with a broken wrist?!?

this is a great idea!

**flannelman** · 01-02-2010 01:36 AM

i might have to try this too. i fractured my right wrist, what... last april. i never went to the doc. didnt know it was fractured at the time. (didnt hurt that bad+high pain tolerance=not knowing i broke it) well it is still kind of F###ed. i doenst hurt, just feels weird and loose. i cant bring myself to do hands down heelside turns, nor anything with my right hand on the ground for fear of killing it. i am an artist too, so killing my drawing hand would just drive me insane. thanks for bring it up Rod.

hey how is your Dad doing?

**rodgon** · 01-02-2010 02:42 AM

Dad is doing amazing! he feel like he is my age ( or so he says... lol) he still has to take it easy when it comes to exercise and cardio workouts, but he seems to have gotten stronger and alot healthier. ^_^

and yeah, you gotta protect those hands guys. glad this was informative for some of you guys ^_^

**charger_doc** · 01-02-2010 02:52 AM

I needed to protect my wrist(s) because I developed a ganglion cyst in my joint, most likely from sliding and doing pushups. I got to the point where I thought I should give up sliding...
These guards solved all my problems:
http://www.blue-tomato.com/medias/ge...0_182_182.jpeg
Well, it's a totally different approach but I just wanted to let you know that these DaKine guards fit great under (Lush) slide gloves.

**rodgon** · 01-02-2010 02:58 AM

do you find that you have to get a larger size to fit them in there?

**charger_doc** · 01-02-2010 06:18 AM

Not at all.
Sure I have smallish hands and Lush gloves have a pretty large fit, but I'm still using the same gloves I used before with no problem. These wrist guards are thin and fit very tight, that's why I thought to give you a heads up on them.
Only downside, they stink like mad after 5-6 sessions and need to be washed... but oh well... I'd rather stink than not slide.

**fishermantpr** · 01-02-2010 08:40 AM

Originally Posted by charger_doc

I needed to protect my wrist(s) because I developed a ganglion cyst in my joint, most likely from sliding and doing pushups. I got to the point where I thought I should give up sliding...
These guards solved all my problems:
http://www.blue-tomato.com/medias/ge...0_182_182.jpeg
Well, it's a totally different approach but I just wanted to let you know that these DaKine guards fit great under (Lush) slide gloves.

I spoke with my surgeon regarding the snow boards style under the glove gaurds after my injury.
His feed back is that the wrist injurys in snowboarding are mainly due to over extention of the joint where as skate boarding injuries are more due to impact. He told me that the guards for either sport are designed with that in mind and I should stick with skate specific wrist guards. It is that big piece of plastic that sticks out at the pal of the wrist gaurd that is important.

**charger_doc** · 01-02-2010 09:03 AM

Well you're right, that wrist guard is from a snowboard line. It's got that plastic stringer anyway, it's just that I can't find a pic that shows it (what you're seeing is the dorsal side, can't find a pic of the palm side).
As for the type of injury, what the doc says is true... but I think mainly applies to trick skateboarding, where speeds are low and impact is frequent. In longboard sliding (and, to an extent, DH probably) vertical impact is way less frequent/hard IMHO than sliding and overextension.
Anyway, for my problem (dorsal wrist cyst) what I need is exactly something that prevents overextension, which these guards seem to do well.

If you guys are interested in seeing them better, I can take pics of the guards (w/ and w/out slide gloves) and post them.

**glideronfreerides** · 01-26-2010 07:49 PM

i broke my wrist snowboarding. thinking about getting these: Winter Gloves Snowboard and Ski Gloves - Level Gloves and then using the guards under slide gloves.

here's the guard