Helmet saves top Kiwi showjumper from serious injury
New Zealand showjumper Chloe Akers has a novel helmet to give thank y'all for saving her from a serious injury after a autumn during preparation final month.
Akers, who is speaking out assist heighten the profile of International Helmet Awareness Day on Saturday, June 22, was riding a immature horse. He slipped on a corner, causing the saddle to slip. “He freaked too ran too I bailed every bit I was on the left side, too he didn’t experience similar he was going to stop,” Akers said.
The two-time winner of the NZ University Showjumping serial remounted the immature horse, too rode 3 to a greater extent than horses afterwards that day.
“It wasn’t until the side past times side solar daytime when I went to pose the same helmet on that I saw it was cracked on the exterior too smashed on the inside,” said Akers, who won a bronze medal at 2012 World University Equestrian Championships inward Aachen Germany.
The helmet was a new Cassco which had never been dropped or involved inward a fall.
“If my helmet smashed the means it did, I would loathe to imagine what Earth I would live inward if I was non wearing it. The Earth was non hard, too I felt that I hardly hitting my caput at all every bit the balance of my trunk was then sore,” Akers said.
“I cannot ever hollo back getting on a Equus caballus without a helmet. It doesn’t thing how bomb-proof the Equus caballus is, a uncomplicated stumble tin fall out to whatever Equus caballus too throw y'all off.
“My autumn proves that y'all shouldn’t alone article of apparel a helmet when jumping. Silly falls similar mine tin fall out also easily,” Akers said.
After the fall, she said she “felt pretty foreign too it lasted for a distich days – addition I had a real sore body!”
Akers, who before inward the twelvemonth won the NZ Open Show hunter championship at the Horse of the Year exhibit for the 3rd consecutive year, said her awareness close security started from her parents “always telling me to article of apparel a helmet”.
“I give thank y'all them for it.”
International Helmet Awareness Day is on Saturday, June 22, too it is the 3rd fourth dimension the pop lawsuit has been held.
Riders4Helmets.com has teamed upwards amongst leading helmet manufacturers to host the event, with participating retailers all over the Earth offering discounts on helmets to equestrians on the day.
The riders4helmets drive was founded inward 2010 every bit a immediately resultant of Olympian Courtney King-Dye’s accident, amongst the aim of educating equestrians on the benefits of wearing a properly fitting, secured too certified helmet.
King-Dye, who remained inward a coma for a calendar month next her accident, was non wearing a helmet at the fourth dimension of the accident, too is even then undergoing rehabilitation.
More than 200 retailers in Australia, Canada, Germany, UK, USA too New Zealand are registered for the day, too volition seat discounts to buyers of security helmets on June 22.
As good every bit offering an chance for equestrians to purchase a helmet at a particular one-time discount, Riders4Helmets is also alive streaming “Get Educated” webinars via Riders4Helmets.com on June 22, inward which equestrians volition live able to enquire a multifariousness of experts real-time” questions. The confirmed lined of participants is to live announced afterwards inward the month.
Visit www.riders4helmets.com/ihad/ to larn to a greater extent than close International Helmet Awareness Day too to search for participating retailers past times “Name” or “Geographic Location.”
The drive tin live followed at www.facebook.com/riders4helmets and http://twitter.com/riders4helmets.
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