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  • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    What a badass! The grandparent spirit in me is worried seeing no helmets on anyone, though.

    • Tuuktuuk@nord.pubEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Good to keep in mind that having to carry a helmet around would make this hobby much less mobile – less accessible.

      That would mean them not doing that as often. And probably, for many: Not doing this stuff at all. Not because they are against helmets, but because thn something else, such as playing computer, would end up chosen instead, with rollerskating being too cumbersome.

      So, yeah, would be better with helmets on, but much better for health to go rollerskating like this without a helmet than not rollerskate at all!

      • riot@fedia.io
        3·
        1 month ago

        I think the woman in the video is super impressive, but I disagree with your comment. A helmet is definitely way less cumbersome and heavy than the skates themselves. And while it’s better for your health to get out and move, by for example rollerskating, than not getting out and move at all, it’s incredible bad for your health that one very unlucky time that you take a nasty fall and get brain damaged for life, and can then no longer rollerskate ever again.

        • Tuuktuuk@nord.pubEnglish
          1·
          1 month ago

          A helmet is definitely way less cumbersome and heavy than the skates themselves.

          The question is:
          Which one is heavier and more cumbersome:

          • Skates themselves
          • A combination of skates themselves plus the helmet

          It does make things more difficult. And it’s not really a rational choice. It’s not a form of activism or rebellion or anything. It’s not even anything conscious. It’s just a bunch of people who do like rollerskating but almost consider it too impractical because lugging the skates around is a bit tedious. And then when you add even a little bit more to carry, they just never even start the hobby. They’ll never notice what caused them to become a karaoke singer instead of rollerblade skater.

          It’s the same that happened in Australia when they put a fine on people riding bicycles without helmets: The prevalence of bicycling absolutely plummeted. And that caused the car drivers to see bicycles much less often than before, which caused them to be a little less likely to take bicyclers’ existence into account when driving. And that, then, dramatically increased the amount of deadly bicycle accidents in Australia by kilometre of bicycling. Beside the number of increased mortality through heart diseases and such.

          Motivating people to use a helmet when riding a bicycle or rollerskating is very important, but it’s extremely important to make sure that nobody chooses to not bike or not skate because they would feel stigmatized for doing that without a helmet and, for reason or another, find the helmet too impractical.

          Again, Australian bikers didn’t stop biking for getting angry at helmets. They never made a decision about it. They just became somewhat more likely to choose other modes of transportation instead of bicycles when the law came in power. That’s just how statistics work on a population level.

          You can indeed die if you go rollerskating like that without wearing a helmet. And it’s stupid not to wear a helmet when rollerskating. But it is not stupid to rollerskate without a helmet! It’s a good thing to do, but it’s stupid to not make it even better. Doing sports is so good for your health that an unnecessary increase in mortality by not having adequate equipment is still a better deal than the bigger increase in mortality by not doing sports at all.