Virginia Tech Finds Riddell's New Flex Helmet Design Better Than Any Other

The university has tracked more than 300,000 football impacts to research helmet effectiveness.

[@ryankeating1852]

Michael Strahan knows the facts at the end

[@samfawcett5329]

Im playing junior high school football and I have a 25 year old helmet

[@MikeSmith-bn8xp]

+sam Fawcett what helmet?

[@santiagosalas9645]

Man that fucking sucks you can't use helmets older than 10 years

[@gryphonsfootball712]

Stop lying, the pads in those helmets would have rotted solid (think I don't know? My dad still has his old helmet from then and the ears are rotten solid and the head pads are nearly

[@ToestedGamingNews]

well my helmet has rotted solid sooooo...

[@lisaharshberger3434]

sam Fawcett bullshit the school isn't allowed to use helmets older than 10 years

[@perciuscesar]

Lead with your head, it's the hardest part of your body

[@SupaTraxHD]

Liam Bell lmao

[@gxbb3rs114]

LOL

[@CastOfCons]

Yes thousands of hits a year....

[@MurKJrps3]

+CastOfCons lol

[@brianodental1634]

+IronRocat maybe 1,000

[@thebeast6838]

IronRocat Oline backs dline recivers...... not only talking about tackles

[@rockylum6947]

This was three years ago before the Vicis helmet came out. Also before better Xenith,the Schutt F7 and the Riddell SpeedFlex precision fit made their appearances.

[@codyposton1418]

Been using Speed Flex helmets since ‘17. Had a mild concussion (pretty bad hit no helmet could fully prevent), still swear by them as the best and most comfortable helmets.

[@Keaira2cool]

Xenith seems to make a pretty good helmet. My son loves his. Says it feels like a pillow inside. Watching the video of the x2e they seem to be addressing the rotational part of head collisions.

[@humzahhassan4521]

I don’t know if it works but the only way to avoid concussion is to have a helmet that absorbs the contact before it reaches the skull or just avoid the head

[@andreasgrasson5144]

I have gotten 3 concussions in 1 season, but that was in a Schutt DNA helmet... I have made the switch to the speedflex, and even though i am bigger now, and the league i play in is more violent, i have not received a concussion this season. The Speedflex is a great helmet

[@BeckyW923]

Notice the NFLPA testing didn't put riddell at the top. XENITH EPIC is the number one helmet.

[@lisaharshberger3434]

Becky Whitman I have a Xenith Epic helmet and I don't feel anything when I get hit

[@usaindemarjay6831]

its the most awesome helmet in my opinion

[@rickyholmes585]

It’s shutt

[@kjmatt3825]

I had head injuries when I was 9 and know I'm ten and its okay so that's why in 7th and 8th grade I'm getting the riddell 360

[@kjmatt3825]

How I'm I a retard At least I have a life.

[@MikeSmith-bn8xp]

Ok first of all, you are 10 and on the internet, don't you need your parents permission? Secondly, do you know what grammar is? Lastly, Riddell stopped producing the 360.

[@Rey_alvarez0620]

Mike Hunt facts and roasted a 10 year old hahah

[@lukethiese8836]

What if his parents granted permission

[@leeharden3724]

Yeah sure...I'm a running back for my high school and I get tackled 100 times per game.

[@pabloolivera373]

Head injury is not mainly in tackling its on line. Linemen collide heads every single play in every game. When tackled good or bad the person getting tackled is falling to the ground banging his head into the ground regardless of how the tackle was made.

[@balthysar68]

Not now. The VCIS Zero1 helmet is the best.

[@balthysar68]

+ Samuel Yi, This is a dated video from 2014. In the most recent NFL testing the VICIS helmet was ranked first. Here are the rankings. www.playsmartplaysafe.com/resource/helmet-laboratory-testing-performance-results/

[@balthysar68]

VCIS has forced other companies to get serious about helmet advancement. The greedy bastards at these companies should have addressed this issue much sooner. This should have happened years ago. And the NFL knew about this problem years ago and did not address it until it was forced to by the work of brain researchers.

[@balthysar68]

It would be great if they do. I am not a rep for any of these companies, I just want players to be safe. I just think VCIS has really raised the standard and hope that all the major companies will continue to do so to make greater significant strides in making helmets safer.

[@MWB18]

I’m using the $1000 Vicis helmet

[@topdraftbaseball]

But does this testy consider the whiplash effect? And I don't feel good about the SG. It does not seem very durable on the inside or outside. It also feels comfortable on the inside. I have one from 2013. I have doubts that the carbon fiber will endure impacts. Will the carbon fiber crack?

[@topdraftbaseball]

Thanks for answering in such a professional manner. I do think you should change the inside padding system though, as well as come up with something for rotational impacts.

[@gryphonsfootball712]

With whiplash the helmet would flex like a cushion would if you fell on it

[@BreeandEthan]

This test is bullshit most concussions are rotational impacts especially in hockey they say the warrior krown 360 is the best hockey helmet on the market just cause it absorbs some direct impact where they rated the re-akt 100 lower when the suspend tech 2 liner protects against those rotational impacts

[@DyeLawn7]

exactly. except in foptball virginia tech only tests hitting in the front of the helmet. the NFL tests front, side and back hitting. virginia tech is bull crap

[@brianodental1634]

+undeadkillerz6 i got my concussion from my head hitting the ground not from direct impact

[@gryphonsfootball712]

We aren't talking about hockey, they have completely different designs

[@bigstr9178]

Where did hockey come from?

[@cam42704]

Luckily we use speed flexes nothing older than 2015 but going into my freshman high school year we are getting even better Helmets.

[@xtune5731]

Cam freshys don’t get the new gear

[@Tesselijah]

That's my helmet

[@stantondodson4135]

virginia tech represent

[@b3at2]

I thought it was about reducing deceleration... a sudden stop is what causes injury.

[@jeremywest7325]

Safety comes at a price that is too expensive for almost all football programs in the country. If they truly cared about our kids safety they would bring the price point down.

[@jeffgumersell6524]

All that technology. But using a stick to release the helmet lol!

[@ricardohernandezpe3377]

no, the best helmet os vicis

[@israelgalindo4316]

Unless they find a way for your brain not to move at all inside your cranium so that a player does not feel the impact

[@hosi292]

Learn how to tackle. Wise words.

[@calebclark6696]

To make it safer, tackle the right way

[@andrewhoback5547]

But it seems that the helmet would be stopped from bending in by the players head

[@gryphonsfootball712]

No, cause all the pads inside would compress against the players head allowing the helmet to flex

[@bigstr9178]

I would get a speed flex but 400 dollars fuck that shit

[@xACiiDTWiZZleR]

Virginia tech university...

[@innovolved1708]

We’re my Hokies at

[@fredo4197]

U meant hoggies? 😂😂🤣

[@RonyTomo420]

Riddell VSR is the best helmet

[@ethandeets3892]

You want parents to see this and like this new crap but look at the price tag you put on it. For bendy plastic and some cushions. Not a lot of schools will buy

[@gryphonsfootball712]

Only public schools have the money to buy this, I got to a privately funded school and we just got the revolutionary speed helmets this year but my local public school has hundreds of these speed flex helmets

[@charles77314]

I understand your point here, but my school just bought 60 of the Speedflex helmets underneath my and our AD’s suggestions. I go to a good Catholic private school and usually in bulk orders they’ll knock off some money.

[@fax5622]

we still use helmets from 2010

[@iSKsniper]

Reese Huth we use them from 2007, unless youre lucky and get the newer ones

[@cameronclark3927]

iSK my middle school that I played for back in the day almost got sewed by a parent who's kid got concussed. I remember I had 3 concussion In middle school alone. They were forced to buy new helmets for the first time in 8 years

[@manymanybees]

My school uses helmets from 2006.

[@adamwhitney6768]

Common FaX my school got a grant to get all new speed flex’s and xtes

[@lajrackies]

Y’all are just trying to make every thing safe football is football stay out y’all don’t play so don’t worry about it

[@endurableplanet4793]

Sasuke Uchiha That has to be the dumbest thing I have read in a long time.

[@SupaTraxHD]

Endurable Planet lmao people want to protect CTE so much, you’re “soft” if not...