Snowboarding
Tailbone Injury
A snowboarding tailbone injury can be very common for snowboarders. If it's not your knee's taking the fall it is your butt. A serious injury to your tailbone will have you sitting on a donut for a week. There is nothing you can do to prevent from landing on your butt, because if it's going to happen, it will happen. However, there are a couple of things you can do to make the impact a lot less dangerous.
The first thing you can do to help prevent a snowboarding tailbone injury is wear some butt pads. The pads will help absorb some of the impact. The butt pads they make today are so comfortable you really don't know you have them on.
I recommend you wearing butt pads if you are a beginner just learning how to snowboard because you will be falling on your butt a lot and your don't want to end up hating snowboarding just because of a sore butt.
I also recommend wearing some butt pads if you are spending all day getting good at the park, because you definitely will be spending some time on your butt.
Prevent snowboarding tailbone injury by wearing Snowboard Protective Gear
Another good tip is try to let the board absorb some impact by landing on it first before you fall back.
I've seen a friend hit a jump and go way to big and land at the bottom of the jump. Right before she was going to land on her butt she was able to land on the tail of her board first. She still injured her tailbone pretty bad, but if she hadn't gotten her board under her body first I'm sure her injury would have been really serious.
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