Sixty percent of skateboard injuries involve children 15 or younger. If you bought your child a skateboard for Christmas or their birthday recently, you want to make sure that they're safe while they skate.
Here is a quick parent's guide to buying the right skateboard accessories to keep your young skater safe while they shred:
Head Gear: Choosing a quality helmet
Your child can recover from just about any skateboarding injuries except traumatic brain injury. You probably also know that the only way to protect their brain while they skate is with a quality helmet.
Head Gear: Choosing a quality helmet your child will actually wear.
Once you settle on an ASTM F1492 certified helmet, now you're pitted with a less objective, sometimes far more difficult, task: choosing a quality helmet your child will actually wear. After all, if your child won't wear the helmet you buy, it won't do them much good when they fall.
Knee and Elbow Pads
Some most common skateboarding injuries are fractured elbows and wrists. Although protecting your child's knees while they skateboard isn't a bad idea, outfitting them with elbow pads is more likely to offer protection they'll need. Simply put, when your child falls off their skateboard, they are more likely to brace their fall with the hand or elbow. When you're looking for elbow pads, look for pads with jointed, hard-plastic, plates. The hard-plastic offers protection, the jointed plates offer flexibility. Visit an online skateboard shop to see what is available.
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