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Snowboard Protection – Concierge Style Service

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Jan 072016
 

Sport Secrets LLC, also known as SnowboardSecrets.com and Flexmeters.com, is breaking new ground by offering an unsurpassed high level of service to its customers. Owner Lauren Traub Teton has been selling snowboard protective wrist gear by Flexmeters/Docmeter longer than anyone else and has gained much experience since 2003, which she gladly shares with her clientele to offer personal “concierge style service” in choosing and purchasing snowboard protective gear.

Snowboarder wrist injuries are the most common accident and Flexmeter Wrist Guards / Docmeter were designed by a doctor and proven to reduce snowboard wrist injuries.

Being a snowboarder herself gives Ms. Teton empathy for beginners and all who snowboard. She personally assists her customers who request help on product selection and sizing. She says email is the best way to reach her, and she answers phone calls too; her number is on the bottom of every page of her website in the “old school style.”

Flexmeters.com will ship anywhere in the world, and can accommodate rush orders when possible using Fedex and the USPS in the United States.The article and video “You Don’t Have to Hurt Yourself to Snowboard” is popular worldwide and shows the protective gear that Ms. Teton recommends and wears to this day.
(The Mobile friendly page link to the video is here.)

Ms. Teton is a snowboard safety advocate and editor of several snowboard websites, including one of the originals, SnowboardSecrets.com. That site, begun in 2003, is almost 1000 pages of snowboard event coverage and sharing the stoke of learning to snowboard safely. Twifties, or “fun people over 50” are welcome and encouraged to snowboard by Ms. Teton who is a child of the 1950s and “remembers when customer service was a valuable commodity.” She asks Twifties to like her Facebook page called Twifties.com so they can be notified of pop-up parties happening anywhere!

 

Flexmeter Snowboard Wrist Guards Explained

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Dec 232012
 
Flexmeter – Docmeter Snowboard Wrist Guard Gloves Product Line Explained
Q. My wife is a surgical nurse – her wrists are vital to her work. She is a beginner snowboarder who broke her unprotected wrist last year. She is 5’2″ and would typically wear a small. Could you please suggest a product as I would like to have it before mid January as we are going skiing.
A. Snowboard wrist injuries are the most common snowboard injury, and beginners are 4 times more likely to break a wrist than experienced snowboarders.  FOOSH or “falling on outstretched hand” with the hand behind the body is the most common method of wrist injury.A flexible wrist guard like Flexmeter, will help absorb the shock of impact and prevent the wrist from hyperextending.  It is the kind of protection your wife should wear.  Flexmeter (also called Docmeter) was designed by Dr. Marc-Herve Binet who is the mountain doctor at the  French resort Avoriaz, and is a member of the ISSS – International Society for Skiing Safety.
Visit Dr. Binet’s Mountain Clinic here.
Flexmeters  wrist protection is available 2 ways.
The Flexmeter Snowboard Glove is the “Cadillac” of snowboard wrist protection. It  has the Flexmeter Wrist Guard integrated into it and is the easiest way to wear snowboard wrist protection on the slopes.  It is what I wear,  and my first recommendation to my customers.
There are 2 kinds of Flexmeter Snowboard Gloves.
Flexmeter Snowboard Glove with Single Protection – has one splint on the knuckle side only, and is the model that was tested and proven to reduce snowboard wrist injuries by 67 to 85%.
$120 plus shipping.
Flexmeter Snowboard Glove with Double  Protection has the dorsal splint and has light palm-side protection added, and is the choice of surgeons, dentists, nurses, artists, musicians, writers, and anyone that wants a little more protection. I suggest this for your wife in view of her circumstances as a petite woman who needs her wrist and has had an injury.
$140 plus shipping.
If Flexmeter Gloves are too expensive our Flexmeter Wrist Guards that stand alone and are worn under your gloves are the answer. Your gloves must have an opening wide enough to accommodate the wrist guard. Or we sell Flexmeter Mittens that will go over the Flexmeter Wrist Guards.
There are 2 kinds of Flexmeter Wrist Guards.
Flexmeter Wrist Guard with Single Protection – has one splint on the knuckle side only, and is the model that was tested and proven to reduce snowboard wrist injuries by 67 to 85%.
$69 plus shipping.
Flexmeter All Season Wrist Guard has the dorsal splint and has light palm-side protection added. It was designed for skateboarding and other warm weather sports, and can be worn under a glove for snowboarding. $69 plus shipping.
Mittens with a wide opening to wear over Flexmeter Wrist Guards specially designed so you can easily slip them over any model of Flexmeter Wrist Guards. They have the added feature of “glove style” inside so each of your fingers has a cozy resting spot.After your day on the slopes is over, take off your Flexmeter Wrist Guard and wear this comfortable mitt for warmth.
$48  plus shipping.
Tailbone protection prevents injuries and makes the slopes less daunting. I wear Azzpadz every time I ride!!
$56 plus shipping.
(See video of my fall off the halfpipe wall at USASA Nationals and you’ll know why I won’t ride without Azzpadz! Click here and scroll down to the video entitled Snowboard Protective Gear in Action – Azzpadz

Flexmeter Glove and Wrist Guard Testimonials from Customers

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Dec 172012
 

Flexmeter Gloves with Wrist Protection and Flexmeter Wrist Guards are designed by a doctor and proven to reduce snowboard wrist injuries, and help avoid broken wrists.  SnowboardSecrets.com is also the first US distributor for Flexmeter. We wear this product, we believe in it, and we sell it. Our customers are happy. See what they have to say, below!

Get Flexmeter Wrist Protection here!

Happy Flexmeter Customers write to us all the time!
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03/12/13

Flexmeter for Roller Derby!

Hey Lauren,

Thanks for the prompt reply. If you could work out a replacement puck that would be amazing. I purchased the flexmeter guards after reading about them on a derby forum that was specific to arm and wrist injuries.

My old guards are the cheaper triple eights that cover only past the wrist with a thin sliding guard on the palm. They served me well in derby but then I had a fantastic crash into the concrete bowl at our skate park this past October and though I had all my gear on, I still managed to break both the radius and ulna. I believe it was because I came down on my palm, below the thumb, missing the protection from the sliding guard.

Fortunately, the flexmeter puck covers more of my palm and the dorsal guard has been amazing at preventing hyperextension of the wrist during a pile up as well as giving support for the many burpees our cross fit coach lays upon us. I have been recommending it to my teammates as I am the only one on the team with them, but the price really holds them back. The rest of our gear is so expensive and since roller derby is skater owned and operated, we pay a lot towards the production of our bouts and just keeping the league rolling – literally!

Yet none of the girls have had a wrist injury like I have and paying the $70 versus another several thousand dollar hospital/surgery bill seems worth it to me! Other than the price, in terms of these for derby, the straps do come unhooked often because of all the scrapping happening within packs (I have the small size). Only when we scrimmage and bout do I need to duct tape them down but in drills that don’t require hitting and breaking through a pack then they stay put. That could be a downside for some but it is really nominal and easily remedied with duct tape.

Okay, sorry for the long email. I do love these guards and turned down a trip to the skate park this morning because I did not have the puck and did not feel safe with my old guards. Well, that and I still have a little stage fright since the breaking incident! Thanks again for the prompt reply. I will email again on the 20th as a reminder. All the best for the remainder of your trip and safe travels.

Amber G.Logan, UT

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12/14/12
Lauren,
Believe it or not I already received the Flexmeter Gloves today and it looks like the large size well be perfect. That’s what I call fast delivery…
Thanks again, Dennis S.
Huntington Beach, CA

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12/11/12
Hi Lauren,

That’s fantastic, thank you so much!! I really appreciate your awesome communication! My husband bought his AzzPadz from you last year, and said you were great, and he was definitely right!

My mom is going to wear the Azzpadz.  She skates a lot though, she was a speed skater for years, and now that she’s getting on in years she’s worried that if she falls over she’ll break everything. My husband, who is a snowboarder, wears his AzzPadz to go skating as well, and my mom mentioned that she’d like a pair of her own for skating, so that’s why we’ve bought it for her!

Cheers,
Hannah
Vancouver, Canada

More testimonials from Flexmeter Glove and Flexmeter Wrist Guards Customers here:

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Flexmeter Wrist Guard Testimonial from Colorado  with X-Rays!
“These are the only wrist guards that I trust, and I will not ride without them.

Flexmeter Testimonials 2006 – 2008

SnowboardSecrets.com is 10 Years Old in March 2013

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Dec 122012
 

It’s our tenth anniversary!

And here is the story of how Lauren Traub Teton, founder and editor of www.SnowboardSecrets.com, became a snowboarder in her 40s and came to start the website.

How “Skiing on Shaped Skis” Turned Me into a Snowboarder

And a Snowboard Journalist

By Lauren Traub Teton

Growing up in Massachusetts, in a non-skiing family, I did have the opportunity to try skiing a few times. Once my family won a day-trip to a ski hill in Shirley, MA. I was about 5 and it was my first time on skis, and the dreaded rope tow was part of the experience. After recovering for 10 years or so I tried after-school ski lessons at Ward Hill, in Shrewsbury, MA. Dark, cold, icy it was, and I persevered, but then witnessed an unspeakable accident of a worker related to repairing the lift, and that was enough of the ski world for me for another 25 years or so.

Fourteen years ago, and in my 40s, I was a guest at a ski meeting at Stratton, Vermont. I was game to give it a try again, and low and behold, shorter shaped skis were a revelation in ease of turning. After my friends came out of their meeting, they commented how well I was doing and said “let’s go to the top.” I had never been in a gondola, and I just loved that mountain experience! Snowplowing down the longest run I had ever been on, with little confidence and  ill-fitting rental boots, my feet, calves, and thighs were wounded by the bottom

At that moment I decided “maybe I am a snowboarder. Soft boots, mmmm!”

I took a lesson, and when I found out that the whole back of the snowboard could be used as a brake to keep me going slow, I was hooked! Fortunately I had done a little research and knew that I’d be falling on my butt a lot, and I actually packed bubble-wrap into my pants, and it helped a lot! Unfortunately the snowboard industry loses many or most first-timers at this point, the ones who aren’t wearing tailbone and wrist protection.

I took many lessons at many hills. Somehow, no teacher ever mentioned to me that I was supposed to stay on my edge! So I caught my edge and fell a lot. I wore in-line skate knee pads and wrist guards, and impact shorts and somehow avoided injury, except sore wrists and a big black and blue when I fell on my car key transponder. “Falling leaf” was my mode down the hill for almost a year. I finally learned to point the nose downhill (at Berkshire East, where the chairlift exit left no choice!) and link turns. The only snowboarders I knew were the guys in the shop who tuned my board.

After figuring it out, I was exultant, and wrote an article called
“You Don’t Have to Hurt Yourself to Snowboard” so I could share my tips. Then I needed a place to put it, so I started this website called SnowboardSecrets.com.  I loved snowboarding and wanted to write about it. I raced in the Mountain Dew Vertical Challenge. I discovered the thrill of watching rail jams and other snowboard competitions. I started many snowboard websites. I reveled in snowboard fashion and the carefree fun lifestyle. My winters now had meaning and joy that I had never experienced. Thank goodness for those uncomfortable hard boots at Stratton and becoming a snowboarder!

 

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