Why do you need LEVEL BioMex Wrist Guards at all?

There are good reasons to protect your wrists while you snowboard. The basic facts are:

• Snowboarding can cause injuries, with fractures the most common type of serious injury
• The most common location of an injury is the wrist (just under 40% of all snowboard injuries are wrist related)
• Most (not all) wrist injuries can be prevented by wearing well designed wrist protection
• You don't have to overspend to outfit yourself with effective and comfortable wrist protection
• Don't wait until you get hurt to wear wrist protection
• Suffering a wrist injury will result in lost time - on the mountain, at work, or doing other hobbies

The dynamics of snowboard falls are clear. With your feet secured to your snowboard, as you lose balance or catch an edge, you’ll fall forwards or backwards. Instinctively, you typically reach out your arms and hands to catch yourself. This puts your wrists at great risk of harm. By wearing snowboarding gloves with wrist guards, you will have a good layer of defense against incurring a wrist injury.

A significant benefit of wearing gloves with wrist protection already built in (like BioMex), is these gloves are designed as an integrated system. The glove, liner, guard, and strap are specifically designed to work together. This typically makes snowboard gloves with wrist guards built in more effective than independent wrist guards worn underneath regular gloves. In addition, our experience is that the fit, feel, and comfort of snowboarding wrist guard gloves is superior. And finally, you won't have to worry about keeping track of separate pieces and parts. If you have the gloves on and wear them properly, you'll be protected.

LEVEL BioMex Wrist Guards - Industry Leading Wrist Protection for Snowboarding

Snowboard gloves with wrist guards have seen many significant improvements over the years, including outer layer and interior liner technologies, new colors, and new features. One of most important advances in snowboard gloves is the integration of high quality wrist protection into glove designs. LEVEL snowboard gloves with the BioMex wrist protection system are the most innovative wrist guards on the market. Because wrist injuries are the most frequent snowboard injury, wrist protection is an important priority. You can wear inexpensive skate style splint wrist guards, as they are more effective than not wearing wrist protection at all, but we strongly recommend LEVEL BioMex gloves because they are proven effective.

What are LEVEL BioMex Wrist Guards?

Built right into the gloves, the BioMex wrist guards were designed by physicians and professional snowboarders specifically for the needs of snowboarders. Watch the video below for an excellent summary of snowboard wrist injuries and LEVEL's Biomex wrist protection system...

The "Swallow Tail" design of the wrist guard provides better comfort and more effective support for your wrist. The BioMex design is the result of an extensive, ongoing collaboration between snowboarders, the medical community, and bio-mechanical engineers. A four-year study conducted by the St. Moritz (Switzerland) Orthopaedic Hospital involving more than 40,000 snowboard hours and more than 2,400 participants showed that snowboarders who wear conventional snowboard wrist guards are 4.5 times less likely to suffer wrist injuries over those who don’t wear wrist guards.

Field testing by Klinik Gut, Center for Bone and Joint Surgery, showed that BioMex wrist guards reduce the risk of wrist injuries by 7.5 times. The BioMex wrist guard is flexible, shock reducing, and ergonomically designed. It is made from high-density rubberized plastic with a split "swallow-tail" wrist support system that puts your hands in a strong anatomical position and flexes to disperse the force during a crash. LEVEL Super Pipe gloves and LEVEL Half Pipe gloves also feature dual-density BioMex "Plus" wrist guards, offering even more wrist support and protection.

Learn More about LEVEL BioMex Wrist Guards and LEVEL Snowboard Gloves

Read some of our blog posts below to learn more about different aspects of LEVEL gloves, BioMex, GoreTex, and more...

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• How to: Restore Water Repellency to your LEVEL Gloves with GoreTex
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Protect your wrists and ride with confidence - outfit yourself with LEVEL BioMex Gloves

LEVEL is dedicated to making the world’s best winter hand wear for the most discriminating snowboarders and skiers. LEVEL gloves deliver maximum warmth, dryness, durability, and protection. LEVEL's unmistakable designs and unique technical features are inspired and tested by some of the world's top snowboarders and skiers including Olympic snowboarding silver medalist, Gretchen Bleiler, and World Cup skiing champion, Aksel Svindal.

LEVEL's unique technology includes the best selling BioMex Protection, proven to significantly reduce the risk of wrist injuries while snowboarding, and Kevlar reinforced finger and palm construction for exceptional durability. With its high performance insulation and waterproofing technologies, you can count on LEVEL to keep your hands warm and dry, in even the harshest climates and coldest weather.

Around since 1998, LEVEL specializes in gloves for winter sports. LEVEL "firsts" include:

• Snowboard specific gloves (1988)
• Removable liner system for snowboard gloves (1988)
• Protection technology for snowboard gloves (1992)
• "Breathable System" to help keep gloves dry (1994)
• Kevlar reinforced construction (1999)
• Backcountry concept: snowboard-ski gloves for mountaineering use (2001)
• Printed silicone palms (2001)
• Reflex stimulator system (Kirax) (2002)
• "Overgloves" as a new market segment (2005)
• SuperFabric (2017)