How are wrist guards for skateboarding different from other wrist guards?
Skateboarding wrist guards come in three basic designs, offering you three different choices of skateboard protective gear.
Protective Skate Gloves with Integrated Wrist Guards These protective skate gloves are a combination of short-finger leather skateboard gloves and integrated skateboarding wrist guards.
Standard Skateboard Wrist Guards. These skate wrist guards provide similar skateboarding safety protection as the skateboard gloves, but without protecting your fingers.
"Pure"
Skate Wrist Guards These offer straight wrist protection, with short splints and/or battens that support the wrist. No palm or finger protection offered.
XSportsProtective staff picks for skateboard wrist guards
For professional-grade wrist guards for skateboarding, we love
Pro Designed wrist guards. These skateboard wrist guards are padded and constructed from 100% cotton duck with Cordura reinforcement in high-impact areas. The stiff plastic palm splint has a distinctively wide top to add extra support when you fall and to disperse the impact over a wider area than standard splints.
In glove-style skateboard wrist guards, we like
Triple Eight’s Hired Hands, which offer maximum shock absorption and style in a versatile pair of skateboard gloves. The impact-resistant, removable front and back splints offer hand protection and wrist protection for skateboarding or any action sport.
Do you still have questions about which skateboard wrist guards are right for you?
Check out our
Skateboard Learning Center article on
How to choose skateboard protective gloves and wrist guards to learn more.
