The Triple 8 Wristsaver 2 is a decent beginner wrist guard. They're affordable, light, and have passable (though quite thin and not at all ergonomic) splints on both the top and the bottom to keep your wrist in one piece. While these things do protect your wrists from falls, particularly those of the direct impact variety, I thought I'd be remiss if I didn't point out a few things.Because the sides of these puppies are mesh, you still get a bunch of lateral movement out of your hand. Something I noticed personally during a horizontal fall, is that this movement can allow for significant lateral compression of the metacarpals (bones in your hand). Probably not enough to ever break anything, but it did sprain several of my very own wee hand ligaments. All in all, these should keep your from breaking yourself if you're on a budget, but I'd trade up if you can afford to.
The construction on these things isn't the greatest, overall it's pretty clear that the components of these things were put together to build these things as cheaply as possible. Only having one strap only gives you one point of adjustment, so when they stretch out there is nothing you can do to alter the fit. And they do stretch, and pretty quickly, that mesh doesn't offer much resistance after all.
Those little loops on the top are quite helpful for getting the things on, but they do look pretty stupid. If they'd given it a little more thought they probably could have designed them in a way that was less prominent, maybe hidden them a little, or made them tabs so at least they didn't get caught on things.
Pros
• Affordable
• Basically functional
Cons
• Cheap construction
• Allow too much lateral hand movement
• Stretch out quickly
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