Hip Pads

From Niftytricks

This term needs to be formatted Hip Pads

Other wise known as: Ass Pad, Ass Protector, Impact Pad, Butt Gear

Hip Pads in snowboarding are just like hip pads in hockey, they are gear designed to keep the bruises on your hips to a minimum and to hopefully allow you to walk away after landing straight on your tailbone. It may be SNOWboarding but damn that snow is not always soft or deep.

As you probably already know, you land on your ass a lot when snowboarding no matter how good you are. Wether it be the constant falling down when you are learning to carve or catching edges learning spins or smashing chunks of ice when you are racing boardercross it seems like your butt gets most of the abuse.

The pads are typically made of a combination of molded padding, closed cell padding, neoprene and mesh and are designed to be low profile and not make you look like you have a fat ass when you are riding.

Fit

The hip pads should fit comfortably and should not fall down (that sucks riding with them around your knees). They are designed to get as much air through them as possible but your going to sweat so it is best to have on some sort of wicking layer between your butt and the pads. You will want to make sure that your snow pants still fit over the top of them.