Protect your brain with MIPS, the latest and greatest in helmet safety technology!
MIPS (Multi-directional Impact Protection System) is a revolutionary technology, providing protection with respect to angled impacts. Helmets that incorporate MIPS have been shown to decrease brain injury by 30%.
MIPS’ is a patented protection system and comes from years of studying the human brain. The brain is surrounded by cerebrospinal fluid that protects it by allowing it to slide when exposed to an angled impact. Mimicking the cerebrospinal fluid, MIPS creates a sliding layer between the helmet and the head. This reduces the rotational force otherwise transmitted to the brain. The combination of the brain’s own protection and MIPS provides better protection from angled impacts. MIPS can be utilized in any helmet and does not interfere or take away from any other technical features, safety aspects, comfort or design.
MIPS was developed by some of the world’s leading researchers in biomechanics and neuroscience at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. The results is helmets offering enhanced safety and protection from rotational forces to the brain.
Conventional helmet testing is done by dropping them vertically onto a flat surface. MIPS is designed for reality, reflecting how most accidents occur, with angled impacts to the head. By using the low friction layer, MIPS can absorb more of the energy from an angled blow to the head.
Look for the yellow MIPS logo on the helmets to ensure that you are wearing a helmet with MIPS technology!
