The right type of wrist guard for you depends largely on your level of experience, and what type of skating you’re doing. As mentioned earlier, with vert or bowl skating a well-padded, strong wrist guard is an essential piece of equipment, but for a general park or street skating, a standard-issue wrist guard will do the job just fine. The majority of wrist guards have the same basic safety feature: protecting your wrist, and it’s up to your style of skating how good you want that protection to be, and what the ratio of comfort and mobility versus safety is right for you.