Possible new t-shirt slogan

[Horton]

I would rather lose a leg than wear a spray leg

[dvskier]

I totally agree!

[jimbrake]

nah, keep trying

[skihart]

Really? Thats a joke right?

 

[skibug]

I have shredded my shin on my back leg when the ski raked across it in a fall. I needed to use a field wound blood clotting agent to get it to stop bleeding. I had to where a spray leg in order to ski, until it healed. There is a time a place for them.

[Horton]

I can not get this thing to heal. Hurts like hell every opening pass but wearing a spray leg would be too humiliating.

 

[skibug]

My father always said.."If your gonna be dumb, you'd better be tough!"

[RazorRoss3]

Been there, done that. The whole stayed in my leg from the beginning of the ski season until drysuit weather rolled around. Seeing as your ski season never ends I don’t know what to tell you

[skihacker]

I've skied with 2 different guys who had that same hole in the shin, doesn't go away if you keep skiing, one guy tried duct tape. Every set.

[liquid d]

Put NEW SKIN on it. It makes it feel better in 10 seconds and lasts for weeks.

[vtmecheng]

[swc5150]

I guess I’m due another panda. Our WI season is too short for me to take the time to toughen up my leg:(

[Wayne]

New-Skin or Dr Scholl’s mole skin will do the trick.

[DavidP]

I crashed crossing the wake and the ski hit my back shin. 8 stitches later and 3 weeks off the water, I’m wearing a spray leg from here on out.

[Texas6]

I must have leather skin as this has never happened to me. But wearing a spray leg is not the answer. Stay strong

[thager]

Not sure what @Horton is complaining about? Now he has a hole matching the one in his head!

[Texas6]

The hole in his head was added as a pressure relief valve to release hot air

[The_MS]

Text book reflex injury

[eleeski]

Regarding this thread: there's a couple minutes of my life I won't get back...

 

Eric

[lpskier]

Don’t be silly. It’s a tool to be used for a purpose, when needed, for as long as needed. An un-named soul, who is a World, Masters and National champion and several time World and age group record holder, borrowed mine (kept for emergencies like this) while suffering from an accuse case of “water burn” when coming back after a long layoff due to injury. If he can wear one with his head held high, so can we all.

[The_MS]

A few years back CP had to wear one

[lpskier]

@horton I prefer the term “leg condom.”

[thager]

Is that something one would use for safe sets?

[Marco]

Since doing this 2 years in a row (Reflex boot), I now wear not only a spray leg on my rear leg but insert a plastic shin guard inside the spray sleeve. It beats 2 weeks off the water and a $1000 urgent care bill. I'm not proud.

[mwetskier]

@thager -nicely done.

 

[liquid d]

Chicks dig scars.

[Garn]

If you make that into a shirt, I want one!

[dchristman]

@marco I'm curious if you use a rear boot with reflex front. I'm wondering if the shin kicking phenomenon is an affliction of reflex-with-rear-boot skiers. I use RTP and have never kicked myself.

[motoskier]

Spray legs rule can't ski without it and they look cool

[dchristman]

My next product - a flesh colored spray leg with hair. Who wants one?

[david_ski]

Reflex and R-Style rear boot. The leg scrape happens with me probably 20% of the time the Reflex does release. My ski buddy gets the leg scrape 100% when his Reflex bindings release.

 

 

[RazorRoss3]

Nothing wrong with a spray leg. I drag my back leg on the pull up which makes them less functional fro me because they always get pulled down and bunch at my ankle if not come clean off and become lost to the lake. I’m sure I could get a really really tight spray leg but I don’t want to work that hard to get it on or cut off circulation

[Horton]

@david_ski how often do you release?

[Marco]

@dchristman yes, I do have a front reflex with a rubber high wrap on the rear. Both injuries happened when I burried the tip at the ball and my reflex released but I did not come out of the rear binding.

[david_ski]

@Horton I probably only have a 4-5 binding release falls a season (80+ day season). Therefore, I only get a bad shin scrape usually once a season. This latest one happened last Friday. This was my worse/painful shin gouge to date. At the frequency of happening only once a season, I am good for the rest of the season. Right. I am seriously thinking about using a soccer shin guard until the skin fully heals. I will find out today how it feels in the water.

[Horton]

How about ”if you don't throw your ski that shows you don't care"

[MuskokaKy]

What!?! Who throws their ski? Lmao

[Andre]

Threw the ski around 2 @ 35 off once.

Cost me an Achilles and half season of skiing...Never again.

 

(Except going for a PB...)