[kendallpark]

> I ski and snowboard and I'm not planning on stopping, I think the benefits outweigh the risks. I'd say that about most sports but I'm not about to let either of my kids play football or box.

That's interesting because the accidental insurance (that I took out during the football years) had separate premiums for skiers and snowboarders. The most serious concussion that I ever got was from snowboarding.

> There's a difference between "you might die right in the middle of this very fun activity" and "you might die slowly and horribly years from now when you're retired and in the midst of raising a family."

It's kinda arbitrary to draw these lines of "my dangerous sport is superior to your dangerous sport." It's all risks and benefits. Skiing/snowboarding is pretty dangerous for catastrophic accidents AND it still has a high concussion rate.

0.37 = American football concussion rate per 1,000 athletic exposures

0.2 = Skiing/snowboarding closed head injury rate per 1,000 mountain visits

You're not incredibly far behind football in terms of risk, my friend.