Horse Back Riding Fashion Braids Magazine
BY KIMBERLY MALOOMIAN
Recently, I seemed to take caused quite a ruckus past announcing that I would be wearing my hair downwards exterior of my helmet in a braid for the fore seeable future in the name of prophylactic. Anyone outside of the sport would have had the initial reaction 'by God that seems bloody obvious that a person would want to prevent injury'. Instead, the reaction I got was a mixed bag of everything from iii cheers for safety to outrage over the loss of tradition, the appearance of a complect, or the fact that make of helmet I cull to vesture is ugly.
Allow's get-go from the beginning. I fancy myself a champion of reading the rulebook (something many should endeavor instead of just following the crowd), and it does non say in at that place that pilus must exist worn up under the helmet, only that it must be neatly restrained. Safety headgear is designed to be worn with nothing between your skull and the helmet.
At present every helmet sales rep out there is going to scream, because their chore is to fit you for a helmet and sell you 1, that is how they make money, but you had ameliorate remember that if your helmet is fit with your hair upwardly, your hair ameliorate be exactly the same every time you put that helmet on. It can't be cleaner, dirtier, curled, straighten, shorter, longer etc. Anything that affects the book of your hair, affects the fit of the helmet and if your helmet moves you are in trouble.
Now I don't know about you, simply my hair is unruly when freshly done, and slick and straight as a pin when not washed for 2 days. I would demand two different sized helmets just to make it through the weekly hair washing bicycle! No other sport with a helmet wears their hair up nether the helmet (hockey, cycling, football, skiing/Nordic) and though these sports have more impact on a regular basis they have far fewer traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) then practise participants in equestrian sports whom are besides wearing helmets. Helmets in other sports are more secure on the caput. They motility less, and cover more surface area. Since we can't find riding helmets with the same corporeality of skull coverage, the easiest thing to make certain the helmet is properly secured in place. We have all witnessed a passenger take a jump a little funny or run across a horse trip and the jolting moves their helmet and causes their hair to autumn out. That helmet is too going to motility on touch on. Easiest way to proceed the helmet from moving is to remove the item betwixt the skull and the helmet, the pony tail.
There was some crusade for concern over the fact that my helmet has a clicker in the back to assist tighten the helmet confronting the skull. Apparently, these clickers take been known to malfunction which would indeed be a slight disaster. I was informed that One G sells an air float for their helmet to help create the perfect fit. This is something I should probably examination out. I can't wait to exist belatedly to the AO ring one twenty-four hour period and become to announce, "lamentable, but I couldn't pump up my bladder this morning time!" That should turn a few heads!
Now some choose to rag on the fact that I use an Ovation brand helmet instead of the uber cool Samshield or Charles Owen or GPA. I should probably really take up their advice to change brands to something cooler. After all, my helmet was probably what kept me from winning four dejection at Devon on my fashion to the 1000 AO title in 2014. In one photo, Urlala does look exceptionally displeased with my way statement… like that was what kept from earning more then an 88 on her way to the peak check in the $250,000 Hunter Prix Final. Listen up people, if the brand of helmet is the difference between start and 2d place, and so the problems of this sport are not fixable and we should all just go home. If y'all say that comment makes me a female domestic dog, well and so you are correct — simply the truth hurts sometimes.
I actually LOL'd when I read one comment that said a braid was causing a 'loss of tradition' in the sport. Anyone who Actually knows me fully realizes that if any amateur my generation understands tradition, it is a 5th generation horseman (on both sides!) with the last name Maloomian. Foxhunting, bear witness hunters, side saddle, saddle seat, thoroughbred racing in this country, and the breeding and training of prized Arabian horses in Armenia.
I get tradition. It was not an exaggeration when I said that I was pissed when Elevation Hats were taken away, but I can likewise meet that tradition can be maintained in areas where safe is non the top business organization. Everyone has seen me sporting my rust breeches, and those pants become more than comments on show grounds then probably anything else. When I'1000 not in my rust, I typically but article of clothing these old, 2-mode stretch, high waist Tailored Sportsmans. Who remembers those puppies?! They aren't suctioned to my thighs and ass (because let's face it, that is not an attractive expect for anyone) and when I push button upwards the shadbelly my shirt and belt are fully covered. It keeps me from looking like my shadbelly is fancy sports bra with inches of prove shirt making an appearance between the points and lower rise (read 'popular') breeches of today. I have too been seen at Uppercase Challenge in existent shadbelly pants – how many of you out at that place even knew those existed?? They are flared on the side and have 2 rows of buttons going upwards the forepart. Complect-nay-sayer-Judges, practice I go bonus points for keeping my outfit traditional?
We are at an interesting point in fourth dimension in our sport. Participants are starting to understand what happens when things don't go equally planned. After all, while there are many things we every bit humans can control, there is ane thing nosotros cannot — the fact that we are sitting on or caring for a live animal with its ain chirapsia heart and own thinking brain.
The medical customs is starting to understand the complexity of not but what happens during impact that creates a TBI, but likewise what happens to people's power to function years and decades later after the injury. As time goes by, the outrage over my complect shall pass… only similar my sunglasses and rust breeches. Not only practice I hope that complect saves my brain, just I promise it can salvage at to the lowest degree 1 other. Maybe we can come together and find a way for equestrian sports to no longer be the TBI causing sport with a bad rap.
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