Dewi said:oh dear...last line of my paragraph.
Oh dear... Which I noted before adding a caveat. I don't use my wrist
because I'm worried about using my neck, but because it works better for
me functionally. Not for others though.
Quoted message said:Whatever, people do many silly things, just because they haven't YET
suffered, doesn't mean it a good practice..
But it doesn't mean it's necessarily silly either.
You haven't done anything to demonstrate it's nearly as daft as you make
out. I'm not really saying it's actively *good* practice, but that in
most cases it really makes no real difference at all, so is completely
neutral.
Quoted message said:http://www.britishorienteering.org.uk/documents/cdoc_safety.pdf
See item 6.
Where it also says cold weather /requires/ layered clothing, where it
very clearly doesn't /require/ any such thing or all the folk I've ever
seen out for a run in the woods on a cold day in just a single layer
would be dropping like flies.
I can also find safety guides that tell me I /require/ stout footwear
with ankle support to go for a walk, but I know from experience that I
don't. I can find safety guides telling me I should wear a cycle helmet
to ride on the roads for my safety, even though there is no good
evidence that they make any difference whatsoever to serious head injury
rates. Someone saying something is not good evidence that it is so.
There is indeed a risk of catching a compass lanyard on a branch, but it
isn't going to kill you. I bumped my head quite painfully on a branch a
month ago when I was looking down at my map rather than the space
immediately in front of my head: does that mean that orienteers
*require* helmets?
Pete.
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