S-One Big Head Helmet - A Day In The Testing Lab (CPSC Test)

 The S-One Big Head Helmet is attached to a headform and the helmet & headform are
subjected to a 2.06 meter drop creating a velocity of 6.20 m/s.
In order for a helmet to pass the CPSC impact test, the helmet must  protect the headform
 and reduce the impact energy to under 300G's


Note: A 2.06 meter drop at a velocity of 6.20 m/s simulates a 14 mph crash or a 6 ft slam to the ground.
(This is an independent / government approved testing lab.)

The same helmet is hit multiple times ( 4x in different places) . And each time the helmet must reduce the impact to
under 300 G's.  This is hit #1.

This is hit #2.

Hit #3.

Hit #4

   In order to pass the CPSC test the helmets must reduce the impact to under 300 G's.  As you can see here the S-One Big Head Helmet reduces the impact to 228 G's.  The S-One Big Head Helmet passes with flying colors.

Nolan Johnson Ripping

Nolan makes videos for us every few months. Thanks Nolan.

Skate and Create! 

Nolan wears the S-One Premium Helmet

Kevin Staab / Huge Backside Air / Venice Beach Ramp

Kevin Staab, last Saturday at
Venice Beach, competing in the Sonic generation Skate event ( a
contest that brought together 3 generations of vert skaters that
competed with each other in teams).
Photo: Dan Bourqui

Kevin has 2 Pro Model Helmets... Check em out.

Kevin Staab's Pro Model Helmet
S-One Destro Helmet Color: Bright Green / Staab
• CPSC Certified

Kevin Staab's Pro Model Helmet
S-One Premium Helmet
Color: Bright Green / Staab
• Non- Certified  (Soft Terry Liner)

Penny Skateboards / S-One Helmet Contest

these penny skateboards are cool. but... is the general skateboard populace going backwards? Active and Zumiez are hyping the heck out of these plastic fantastic rides. Has skateboarding reached a peak in performance and are we going back in time in order to re-invent skateboarding again in the future? I don't know... what do you think? Email us? info@s-one.com for your comments.
The most insightful or forward thinking comment wins a free Penny Skateboard and an S-One Helmet.

Watch out Skateparks... Waveparks are coming

Skateparks are everywhere. Which is awesome. And now Kelly Slater and company are working on bringing wave parks to a town near you... watch the video.  Imagine a perfect wave in say... Kansas.
Think about it. Liquid Skateparks.

Holiday Helmet Picks : Longboarding

Longboarding:
If your son or daughter is asking for a longboard this Holiday
season and you want to get them one of the best fitting and safest
helmets on the market then check out the S-One Lifer Helmet.

Aleix Gallimo Photo: Agro

S-One Lifer Helmet

The S-One Lifer Helmet

Designed to protect your head to the highest skate and bike helmet safety standards.

This helmet fits great and is the ideal helmet for any serious skater.

Usage: Wear it when your riding your skateboard, roller skates or bike. 

Specs:

• Lightweight EPS Foam absorbs impact and protects your head up to 5x more than EPP and other foam liners.

• Multiple Impact* / CPSC Certified for Skate & Bike Usage

• Deep Fit Design 

• Removable Sweat Liners

• 5x More Protective Than Multiple Impact / Non-Certified Helmets

MSRP: US$ 50

* Multiple Impact means it can take a series of 4 big impacts in different spots on the helmet. But if you slam super hard and you think the helmet has been compromised or any part of the shell is cracked you can take advantage of the S-One Crash Replacement Policy and send your helmet to S-One and we will replace your helmet. (email info@s-one.com for more info) (shipping and handling costs apply)

Chris Miller wears the S-One Cromag Helmet

Chris Miller
S-One Cromag Helmet

Austin Poynter / Skate Encinitas / S-One Lifer Helmet

Austin Poynter
Backside Ollie
S-One Lifer Helmet

S-One Kid Helmets : In-Stock Soon

S-One Kid Helmet
Coming Soon!!!
New Colors Include:
Pink Matte (not Shown)

I'd Rather Be Skateboarding

S-One Helmets Double Hammer Logo : Artwork #0048

S-One Hammer Artwork #0048

S-One Helmet Co.

Double Hammers Logo

Registered Trademark

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Occupy Wall Street

If you really want to occupy wall street do your
holiday shopping at a small independent merchant (ie: local skateshop).

Happy Holidays from S-One Helmet Co.

Austin Going Big

Austin Poynter
9ft Backside Air

nolan johnson's blog: a-flux

http://a-flux.blogspot.com/

Austin Poynter Photo: Ohlsen

Austin Poynter
S-One Lifer Helmet
Photo: Ohlsen

The Skateboard (An Illustrated History) By: Ben Marcus Photos: Lucia Daniella Griggi

I was roaming through Barnes & Noble and found this new book. It caught my eye because Lester Kasai is on the cover wearing S-One Wrist Guards and an S-One Premium Helmet. So amped! But yeah the book is really amazing. Highly recommended.

"From the first 2x4 boards with purloined, aniled-on roller skate wheels to the latest and greatest shortboard with oh-so-cool graphics, the story of the skateboard is told in glorious photography and text, Chock full of more than 750 images and packed with interviews with skaters from Jeff Ho to Tony Hawk, Patti McGee, Stacy Peralta, and many more this book welcomes you to the skateboard hall of fame - and infamy.
Author Ben Marcus is all those things mothers fear: A surfer and skateboarder from childhoo, he later became a Surfer Magazine editor and is the author of the classic history of the surfboard, as well as numerous other cool books. Photographer Lucia Daniella Griggi has traveled the world shooting skateboards and skaters." - From the Back Cover 

S-One Archives / Priscilla Lee / 2008

Priscilla Lee
2008

New Colors: S-One Lifer Helmets

S-One Lifer Helmets

- Fall 2011- 

The Lifer Helmet fits lower than ANY other CPSC Certified Helmet. This is an all-around best seller because it fits most people perfectly.

Colors: Gold, Grey Matte, Purple Matte, Citrus Matte, White, Pink Matte, Navy Matte, Black Matte, Cyan Matte, Dark Green Matte

s-one archives: tony farmer / 2004 / photo:ogden

found this in the s-one archives the other day.
Tony Farmer
 frontside lip
circa 2004
photo: ogden
helmet: trian / army canvas helmet

S-One Premium Helmets / In-Stock Now

S-One Premium Helmet

The S-One Premium Helmet is back in stock. And they sell super fast in states that don't have helmet laws or state mandated helmet safety standards. However, we want to let skaters know that soft foam (non-cpsc) helmets are not nearly as protective as CPSC certified helmets. And we (s-one) actually recommend that you wear a CPSC Certified helmet. So why do we even make the non-certified helmets?

Moms always ask us - Why do skate helmet companies (s-one, triple 8, pro-tec, bern) even make non-certified helmets?

Alot of Moms and Dads asks us why we even make the soft foam helmets if they don't pass the CPSC impact testing process. Our answer is: There are alot of skaters that grew up wearing soft foam helmets and refuse to wear anything else. And although the soft foam helmets are much less protective than the CPSC certified helmets they are better than nothing.  So, we (s-one) make the soft foam helmets for all the stubborn, hardcore, crusty rippers out in the world.

Summary:

Soft Foam Helmets do not protect your head as well as the CPSC Certified Helmets. Soft Foam Helmets will only protect your head from very low impact slams. (reality check... very low means: 5 mph or drops from 3 feet) So please understand that Soft Foam (non-cpsc) helmets do not even come close to passing the skate and bike helmet standards set forth by the CPSC. (Consumer Product Safety Commission).

Who wears soft foam helmets?

Older skaters that will only wear a soft foam helmet because that is what they always wore (because they are comfy) or image conscious teenagers that don't even want to wear a helmet at all. But remember old crusty dude and too-cool teenager... CPSC Certified helmets are much safer and will protect your brains against a real slam.

Hockey Helmets?

Also, some roller derby girls think that hockey helmets are more protective than cpsc helmets. Wrong. Very wrong. Hockey Helmets with EPP (expanded polypropylene foam) DO NOT pass the CPSC test. Hockey Helmets will not adequately protect your brains / head from a 14 mph slam or 6 foot drop. And top it off... hockey helmets are super expensive ($150). The Hockey Helmet is a glorified soft foam helmet. No bueno. 

S-One Helmet Overview: CPSC Certified

Hard Foam / EPS Foam (CPSC Certified)

Some Information About Hard Foam (eps foam) CPSC Certified Helmets:

We highly recommend that all skaters or cyclists regardless of age or skill wear a CPSC Certified helmet. These are the safest helmets on the market and are manufactured and tested to the highest standards to make sure that they help protect your brain in case of a slam.  A CPSC Certified Helmet is up to 5x more protective than non-certified helmets. These helmets are the best for you or your children. 

S-One Kid Helmet

This is the safest helmet for your little beginner or advanced skater with a smaller head.

Alot of teenage girls wear the Kid Helmet also because their heads are smaller and more narrow. This helmet fits nice and low on the head and it is CPSC certified. Skateshop owners have been telling us that the S-One Kid Helmet is the best fitting helmet for kids on the market. 

S-One Lifer Helmet

The Lifer Helmet fits lower than ANY other CPSC Certified Helmet. This is an all-around best seller because it fits most people perfectly.

S-One Big Head Helmet

A CPSC Certified helmet for the skaters and bikers with larger noggins.

* S-One Helmets are Lead and Phthalate Free.

S-One Skate Helmet : The Lifer

Skateboarding has progressed rapidly over the last decade and
the Lifer Helmet is a safer helmet to protect the athletes that are pushing skateboarding to
the next level.  And ten years ago we didn't have all these concrete parks. A quality helmet like the S-One Lifer Helmet is more important then ever before.

Austin Poynter (shown above) has slammed super hard with the Lifer Helmet in the past and swears by it. His Dad said if he was still wearing the old school soft foam helmets he would have been seriously injured... or worse.

FACT: The EPS foam in the Lifer Helmet absorbs more impact than the soft EPP foams or EVA foams found in many other helmets.

The S-One Lifer Helmet

Designed to protect your head to the highest skate and bike helmet safety standards.

This helmet fits great and is the ideal helmet for any serious skater.

Usage: Wear it when your riding your skateboard, roller skates or bike. 

Specs:

• Lightweight EPS Foam absorbs impact and protects your head up to 5x more than EPP and other foam liners.

• Multiple Impact* / CPSC Certified for Skate & Bike Usage

• Deep Fit Design 

• Removable Sweat Liners

• 5x More Protective Than Multiple Impact / Non-Certified Helmets

MSRP: US$ 50

* Multiple Impact means it can take a series of 4 big impacts in different spots on the helmet. But if you slam super hard and you think the helmet has been compromised or any part of the shell is cracked you can take advantage of the S-One Crash Replacement Policy and send your helmet to S-One and we will replace your helmet. (email info@s-one.com for more info) (shipping and handling costs apply)

Crash Replacement Policy for your skate or bike helmet.

Lester Kasai / Smith Grind / Clairemont / 2011

Lester is wearing the S-One Premium Helmet.

Austin Poynter / Method Air / Encinitas

Austin Poynter blasting a big backside air at the Y.
Encinitas, CA
Austin wears the S-One Lifer Helmet.

Austin Poynter / Shot on Go Pro Camera at Encinitas Y

Austin Poynter / Judo Air / Encinitas Ca
Photo: Gerry Poynter with  Go Pro Camera
Thanks to the Go Pro Fisheye I think it is safer to say that
shooting a rad skate photo has never been easier or more
affordable. Amazing!

Heimana Reynolds Age 13 / Tim Brauch Footage

Heimana Reynolds age 13 from Hawaii wins 1st place for sponsored bowl ams. @ 2011 World Cup Skateboarding event The Tim Brauch Memorial in San Jose, California.

Heimana Reynolds wears the S-One Premium Helmet.