Shred-Ed: Hard Foam vs Soft Foam

Shred-Ed: Hard Foam vs Soft Foam

We completely recommend that ALL skaters regardless of age or skill wear a hard foam CPSC Certified helmet when riding a skateboard or roller skates. A CPSC Certified helmet will protect your head up 5x more than a soft foam helmet.

 

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SOFT FOAM

If you are an older skateboarder it is probably what you grew up wearing. This helmet has a hard plastic outer shell and a soft foam (or) rubber liner. These helmets are comfortable but they are not nearly as protective as a hard foam helmets. The soft foam helmet does not even come close to passing the CPSC impact testing process. If you slam from over 3.5 ft from ground the soft foam does NOT reduce the energy pulse adaquately. However, most experts agree that you are better off wearing a soft foam helmet than no helmet at all.

HARD FOAM

A hard foam helmet has a hard plastic outershell and hard eps foam inner liner. The EPS Foam is what enables the helmet to protect the head in the high impact test. If you slam hard, the EPS foam liner breaks apart and disperses the energy. The hard EPS foam is the crucial element in protecting your head.

WHAT IS EPS?

The word Styrofoam™ is often used to describe expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam; however, ‘Styrofoam’ is actually a trademarked term for closed-cell extruded polystyrene foam made for thermal insulation and craft applications. EPS foam is the correct term for any form of expanded polystyrene.
Essentially it’s the hard foam that takes the brunt of any hard or blunt impact. 

A soft foam helmet will not protect you adequately if you hit the ground, coping, tree, curb or barrier at speeds of 14 mph or more . The brain is delicate and it doesn’t heel like a knee or wrist. If you go down hard, you want to be wearing the best possible helmet. If you get a head injury while wearing a soft foam helmet you are going to be looking back and asking yourself, “Why wasn’t I wearing the safest helmet possible?”. Tests clearly show that a soft foam helmet does not protect you as well as a hard foam CPSC Certified helmet.
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