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Early Intervention Enhancing Confidence and Safety 

Being able to defend yourself boosts your self-confidence, lowers the risk of getting hurt, and lets you focus on embracing your Warrior spirit while safely enjoying your sport. Turning the helmet into a tool the athlete can use instead of just something to put on their head increases the value of the helmet.  The key to early intervention is the Warrior Tough free movement safe zone which is controlled by the gap.  In the safe zone the athlete has unencumbered free movement to properly participate in their sport.  The Warrior Tough Concussion Counterpunch helmet does not interfere with proper movement, it is designed to promote and work best with proper movement.  The built in chin-down feature, for example, helps teach proper chin placement, a key to avoiding posture that sets an athlete up for a concussion.  The gap controlled by the athlete can instantly be closed to brace the helmet on the shoulders and assume a protective posture that activates 10 safety interventions.

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The quicker the gap is closed, the quicker the helmet works in the favor of the athlete to reduce the factors that promote concussion.  This is the main point behind early intervention which can be initiated by the athlete or will happen automatically if the athlete fails to brace in time- a design feature not used by other helmets or headguards.

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"Even under conditions in which there is no overt impact, trauma to the brain is possible.  Truma can result from a rapid change in the heads velocity or change in vector speed over time" (Barth, 2001, p.253-256). The quicker the gap is closed the sooner the helmet works to reduce the undesirable effects of kinetic energy on the brain.  

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The Warrior Tough Concussion Counterpunch helmet is engineered to be a defensive tool that allows the athlete to ready themselves for an impact through bracing which is a natural reflex action. In other words, it is a natural reaction to pull your chin to your chest and raise your arms to protect your head when you under attack.  Warrior Tough capitalized on this natural reflex when designing the Concussion Counterpunch helmet.  Because the helmet is built to work with natural reflex, it becomes second nature to brace, hulk, and steel yourself for a blow with minimal training. Implementing the helmet's safety features quickly becomes a reflex action after a few uses. 

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Through the use of proper technique and the ability to close the free movement safe zone, the athlete improves proper head movement.  Furthermore, the helmet fosters proper movement because when the helmet is braced and the athlete then learns to hulk or create a connective pressure between the helmet and their shoulders, essentially readying or steeling themselves to receive the blow, it improves their safety.  Because the helmet reduces the head and neck trauma through the padding absorbing and transferring force, the user perceives a softening the punch compared to old-style headguards.  In this way the Warrior Tough helmet rewards proper technique while providing an early intervention feature that no other helmet on the market has.

 

The athlete now has a defensive tool to take a protective posture (bracing/hulking/steeling).  This proactive transfer design automatically redirects energy upon impact, even in instances when the athlete is unprepared, thanks to our patented safety-stop feature. 

 

At Warrior Tough, we believe your safety equipment should be something you can actively engage with and should be something that will protect you even when you can't protect yourself.  The gap that the athlete controls provides the best and most dependable early intervention.  The sooner safety interventions are implemented the safer the athlete.