Here is a link to a story on how Vtech is has updated their riding helmet test adding a test that takes speed into account. https://news.vt.edu/articles/2025/04/helmet-lab-releases-updated-equestrian-ratings-system.html
Don’t know if they updated them to be modeled on female musculature yet. I’m glad they are not just relying on the pendulum test now. I know they had an explanation for people who didn’t know physics on why that was the right one. However if you knew physics you could see the reasoning was faulty. I think the added test is a much better model. I feel the mistake they made was looking at only falls in controlled settings and not on the varied surfaces and conditions under which people actually ride. That and maintain that speed was not factor in the severity of the fall shows their video samples were not truly representative of the wide spectrum of falls form horses. Having fallen from a horse at speed I know the forces are more severe resulting in double vision for a period of time vs just a headache for a fall at lower speeds.
This is a big step forward in evaluating riding helmets.
