BMX SAFETY - (My Top Picks for Safety Gear)

All right guys, how are we doing today

You're gonna notice this is way different. So I finally, I got another camera

Somebody's getting murdered over there. I don't know what's going on. It sounds like fire trucks, but anyway

So this video is going to be talking about safety gear. Everyone asks me, yo, what pads should I get

You know, stuff like that. So I wanna run you through the pads that I wear, why I wear them, what I like about them

but also what I hate about them. So let's get right into the video

Alright, so I'm taking off my pants to show you the spandex that I wear and it's kind

of awkward like I'm by the city building, it's kind of out in public, like I'm just

taking my pants off so I hope they don't think I'm filming like a different type of movie

I don't know. But anyway, the first thing guys, let's talk about the spandex and why are we talking about

the spandex and it keeps your pads from slipping around. I promise you if you just buy some shin

pads or some knee pads you're going to get them and they're going to slide down on your knees

You're going to be constantly like sliding them up and it's not fun. Even if they have that neoprene

like plaster or rubbery stuff that's supposed to keep it from sliding it's going to happen

And so what I started doing a long long time ago is just some full leg spandex. You can get it from

Walmart, Under Armour like Ross probably has Nike or Under Armour brand. Just get some spandex

Under Armour has the heat gear so theoretically it keeps you cooler and that's what I got they

they look like like almost any pro that you're gonna watch is gonna be wearing them but they

look kind of funny and but anyway look this is what they look like they're just real tight pants

okay and so they uh what the idea is look this is when you crash and it rips through your pads

your spandex and your your pants but anyway this being under your pads keeps your pads from slipping

around. So this is like a super important thing here is that spandex. That's going to be like my

most important piece of advice because not many people have it. Not many people talk about it

Everything that I'm showing you here in the video, I'll put a link in the description for it so you

can check it out. You can get it if it feels right for you. So basically I'll just run you through

how I get ready to ride. So first spandex goes on first. Okay, spandex. Then you're going to want

to put on the knee pads. This is what I got. They're Fuse Alpha knee pads. They are, I bought

them in like 2018. At Woodward, I just bought them from Amazon. I think they're about 40 or 50 bucks

As you can tell, they've been through a lot here. Anyway, the Fuse Alpha knee pads, there's more

expensive options, there's better options, but these are the cheapest ones and they're definitely

my favorite. They have little pads right here on the side, okay, and it's just like soft plastic

There's a piece of hard, thin plastic in here with some padding over top, and then another

soft piece right here on the corner. This is generally where you smack your knee on your

stem, so it's cool that they put that on there. It straps together with velcro at the top

and doesn have anything at the bottom except that piece of like oh what do you call it the rubberized stuff that supposed to keep it from slipping There also a strip of that right here up top Keeps it from slipping around on your legs

These are half decent, $40, $50. And like I said, you can get the more expensive version

but when you're just starting out, this is gonna be just perfect because, I mean

like I said, they last forever. So like, you're literally never gonna need to buy more

I'm gonna buy more because they're falling apart and I wanna try some combos, but they last forever

they still do the job and one thing I hate about them actually is that if you crash the impact

going this way pushes it up and you're going to get road rash from this part of the pad rubbing

hard against the top of your knee that's the only thing because they're not really connected so they

can slip up when you crash pretty hard but it's not super common so anyway put the knee pads on

Okay, knee pads on. Next, we're going to be putting on the shin guards

You will notice these look exactly the same. These are the Fuse Alpha shin guards

I did not get the knee-shin combo because when they go together, I'm sure that they're like this

There's no gaps, okay? Another problem with them is if you get the combos

they might not go all the way down to the bottom of your shin

So it leaves a part of your shin exposed and then you slip a pedal and then you smack the part of your shin

It's Murphy's Law, man, damn Murphy. You smack the part of your shin that's not covered

It's a pain in the ass. It's like not very fun. And so I got them in not a combo

so that I made sure that the size would cover my whole shin. And it's been pretty solid

I wish they were combos and longer because I don't like that they don't piece together

But that's okay, that's okay. $44, hard piece of plastic in here

Let me show you. I'll show you on this one. But hard piece of plastic in here

that's what's saving your shins from the pedals. This goes on the inside

so you can pull this out and also wash just this. So that way your girlfriend doesn't break up with you

because you smell so bad. So these are awesome. And right here, it's got like a ribbed piece

This is really hard or really soft foam up top. And then the actual hard plastic pad goes down here

So this is pretty much the gap in between your knee pad and your shin guard and it's flexible so you can slide it up as far as you need to

These are also velcro and they don't they slide around a lot they slide around more than they should

so what I the biggest piece of advice that I have for you is get a measuring tape

measure your calf and make sure that this is going to be the right size. I think I got medium

Um, let's see what I got. Hold on. I got extra large. So I should have got large because these

extra larges like wrap around my calf, but there's, they're barely holding on because they've

they've got to go over so much farther than the Velcro. So I really recommend measure it before

you buy it. Don't just assume, yeah, I'm pretty big. I'm going to get an extra large. I should

have got a large or even a medium, but live and learn, right? So measure your thing that measure

your leg that is my biggest piece of advice for you on the shin guards $44 like I said next piece

is going to be the ankle pads so you can get fuse alpha shin like shin whip combo So that the other oh my god I forgot to talk about the whip pad This is on the inside of the shin guard and it a

soft plastic here. It's pretty thick but essentially the idea here is this goes on the inside of your

leg so when you do a tail whip boom it uh that pad absorbs the shock from your frame hitting your

leg or anything like that. That's pretty cool. But you can get these with ankle pads down at the

bottom. They just slip over your feet. They've got little ankle shields and that's kind of cool

I got these separately because I, one, they didn't have the ones with the ankle pads available when I

got mine, but two, these are a little more protective. So I ordered these, they're like

another $44 and they've got, it's pretty thin, soft metal or soft metal, pretty thin, soft

foam here on the ankle pads and then a piece right here on the back. This is pretty useless

I think, but oh well, you know, I don't know why it's there. I don't, I really don't know

It slides over your foot and it stays pretty tight. It's got this, this extra elastic band

holding it there. Those are okay. There's better ankle pads out there and I'll put them in the

description because these are not the best. They're, they're very expensive and they're not

that amazing so i'm gonna put my favorite ones in the description probably not these but the knee and

shin pads i totally approve of i totally love now if you are feeling extra crazy you're gonna want

to get something like this this is called a girdle it's for football players basically but um you wear

this and it's got hip pads so these are pads for your hip and this is a pad for your tailbone so

So if you wash out on a, loop out on a manual and slam your tailbone, this extra piece of padding here can help you out a lot

I only wear these when I'm going really crazy. You can get them at like, I don't know, Hibbit Sports, Dick's Sporting Goods, Sportsman's Warehouse, anywhere that sells like sporting equipment stuff

You can get them. They're probably pretty expensive. But a lot of them come with thigh pads already in there because that's what you need in football is thigh pads

These ones come with a slot to put thigh pads in. So then I don't have thigh pads because I don't need thigh pads

I don't need them. But yeah, get these if you're feeling extra crazy

The second, like another really important piece of advice is the belt

And this is something nobody thinks about or nobody talks about. But this belt is a Nike baseball belt

And you can see it here. It's just like an elastic belt. Okay, it's very worn out

But the reason I love this is you can adjust how tight it is essentially

and it's like $11, but it's elastic. So if you wear a non-elastic belt when you're riding

you're moving around so much and flexing that that belt is restricting you

So with this thing, it holds your pants like where you need them to

And then, but it also flexes as you're moving. So when you're doing like spinning for a 360

it's not restricting you back. And that's a game changer for me because I'd hate like a shoelace never worked

A real belt is just too tight sometimes or too loose. like there's no happy medium

And so getting this baseball belt was totally a game changer Again get those when you pick up the girdle But the last piece that we got to talk about is the helmet Okay the helmet the straps in there we don want that The helmet is

something that everyone wears. This kind of, it doesn't feel like I look like a doofus, but then

if I look at it, it looks like I look like a doofus. What I hate about helmets is how high up on your

head they sit. So I got this one. It's the POC MIPS helmet POC Dougster Bob, but it has the system

inside. Okay. And what you do with this is you can tighten this clicky thing and it tightens up your

head so that the helmet's really firm on there and it fits really good. It also slides down a little

further than most. And that's one of the other reasons that I love it. But with the MIPS system

being able to tighten it on your head makes it feel a lot better. But the really cool thing about

it is that if you take some impact okay like this let's say impact the inside of it actually moves

so the helmet moves around your head and what this does is this distributes the impact not just to

one part of your head but it spreads it out a little bit more so that the impact isn't as great

it's just like it just spreads the impact out so you don't smack that one part of your head really

hard. It's like $150. I got this one on Amazon. I heard they're changing all the helmet regulations

So helmets are redoing their certifications and everything like that. And that's kind of the hold

up on having good helmets out and available, but I'll post the link to this one. And also a couple

other, I'll actually post, I did a website post of all my favorite helmets and like the best ones

I compared them by weight, by style and how protective they were and things like that. So

I'm going to post that if you're really, look, I think you need a helmet. I think your kid needs

a helmet. I think everyone should wear one when they're riding, especially if you're doing things

that are a little scary to you or a little out of your comfort zone. So get that for sure and

just be safe. Now that is really it. You know, the links are going to be there and it's going to tell

you where they're the cheapest. So usually I'm going to try and send you to Dan's Comp, but I'm

really not sure if they're the cheapest. So if I find it cheaper somewhere else, I'm going to plug

that link in there. You go check it out and get the safety gear because we don't want you crashing

Before I wrap up the video, we got to talk about gloves for five seconds because I get a lot of

questions about slippery hands and what I did, I just got used to it. So I'd wear gloves sometimes

but not very often, but look, so you get calluses, right? And over time it just builds up. It's going

be fine don't worry about it but I don't think it's that necessary I think you're going to be

fine without it if you really want them just get some cheap like fist gloves they're going to be

15 to 20 bucks I think they're very overpriced but you can get those and then you can just wear the

gloves but like I said I don't really recommend it I think the safety gear here that I talked

about is pretty much everything that you're going to need and yeah and that's about it guys so

So anyway, have a good rest of your day and peace