Protection gear: soft or hard shell elbow/knee pads? Best wristguard?

[midlifecrisis]

Any advice on good protective gear? I'm a new XR owner (it's on it's way!) and looking for the best protective gear for my learning curve. I'm an old time snowboarder and want to cruise/carve around with a smile on my face - not planning on off road or anything radical.

I have a helmet so I'm wondering what are good wrist guards and elbow/knee pads. I'm thinking to get decent fingerless gloves with integrated wrist guard (like Triple 8 Hired Hand) and soft padded elbow/knee pads instead of hard shell? (like TSG Tahoe elbow/knee guards, or G Form Pro X - or similar from Dakine or Fox).

Any help or advice much appreciated 🙏🤙

[blkwalnutgrwr]

Two years ago when I first started riding a Onewheel I was wearing my safety gear under my clothes so as to be less noticeable. Robert Allen was surprised -- saying, "I wear mine to protect my clothes."

My personal preference is for hard shell pads for impact and slide. And the plastic of the knee pad for my lead knee has some pretty good gouges from falls on pavement.

[Franko]

i use hard shell, and i also bought a pair of fingerless leather Hillbilly skate gloves with a wrist protector. they already have a couple big gouges in them, too, a record of their worthiness.

[midlifecrisis]

Thanks for feedback.

I'm tempted to buy a very good soft padded elbow and knee protection which hopefully give almost as good protection but are more flexible/comfortable.

Recommended products include TSG Elbow/Knee guards, Demon D3 (both look like thick soft pads) or the G-Form style of pad which claims to offer great protection even though it's slimmer and more flexible.

Anyone have experience of these? (Already bought the Triple 8 Hired Hands fingerless gloves with wrist support - cheers for the advice!)

[midlifecrisis]

Anyone got experience with G-Form and TSG style of elbow/knee pads - ie which is best? Here's the two...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06VSN9RYZ/ref=as_li_ss_tl?slotNum=9&ie=UTF8&linkCode=g12&linkId=0a62104ab67d15e446f74d98efd1a61d&imprToken=MXBqeWRIH2LD-t.81hytbw&tag=reviewskate0f-21

https://www.alpinetrek.co.uk/tsg-elbowguard-tahoe-a-20-protector/?aid=2cd3b3ca6bcb588d0b0cacc1b8d3c811&

Wondering which type of pad offers best protection but is still flexible/comfortable?

Cheers.

[joshgrn]

@midlifecrisis I'm looking at getting some motorcycle jeans, and mtb fingerless gloves, just has a bad stack on the bitumen at 30kmph on delirium after pumping up the tyre from 14 to 20psi. Scarly responsive, Knocked me back a peg to mission.

[selleugraj]

Best I could find were these:

Wrist: Demon D3O Skate
Elbow: Knox Cross Elbow Guards
Knee: Arcteryx Leaf Knee Caps