Whitewater Rafting Helmet

Video Transcript

"Let’s talk a little bit about some rafting gear you’ll wear while you’re on the water. Helmet, probably the one of the most important parts of the gear. Looking for a good helmet, something that fits snug, is going to stay on, it's going to offer you some protection while you’re out there, you tend to with rafting to not have any big high velocity hits to the head. You’re just looking for bumps and bruises and this is going to protect you a little bit, this is sort of a basic rafting helmet. Good customer helmet here, very simple, good, cheap, reasonable helmet, you can go up, have a little more customized helmet here. This helmet here has nicer padding on the inside, slightly more adjustable neck strap, so you can get a good fit. For this helmet to fit and stay on, you want it to be easily adjustable under here, you don’t want it to roll back off of your forehead you want it to cover a good portion of the temple area, the forehead area and around the ears here, so this is pretty good helmet to do that. You can start moving up in cost, getting a slightly more fashionable helmet, offers you more protection. This helmet is also a great helmet for kayaking and rafting so a little more versatile, its got a little more of an adjustment and harness system inside, a little more comfortable, a little more stylish with a brim and then you can go to a little more high end helmet here that offers again more adjustability. This is a lightweight helmet, cotton fiber, two-hundred dollars with lots of adjust, adjustable strapping in here so that you can make sure this fits on the head nicely. Protects you from the sun and rain as well as any rocks that are out there, stays on, it’s not going to flip backwards on your head, it’s a nice looking, nice fitting helmet. "