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The company was a star in making the hard helmet named Zero 1 helmet, built to reduce the impacts believed to cause concussions.
FREMONT, CA: Vicis, a remarkable football helmet maker, has launched its new version of the soft helmet for 7-on-7 game and flag football practices. Ultim Cap is invented to protect players from head injuries when hard helmets and full pads are not being used.
Dave Marver, CEO and co-founder of Vicis, mentioned the new helmet is based on the research that shows both the flag and 7-on-7 games have similar head injury rates. Ultim Cap had already earned the top spot in a ranking of soft helmets for flag football by the Virginia Tech Helmet Lab.
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“We’re committed to football as a sport. We want kids who play it to have the best access in whatever form,” mentioned Marver in a statement. The company was a star in making the hard helmet named Zero 1 helmet, built to reduce the impacts believed to cause concussions. The soft helmet also uses the same manufacturing physics behind Zero 1. Zero 1, has a rigid body that flexes on impact. While the Ultim helmet is engineered around a wave pattern of the wall that buckles and bounce back.
The new Ultim cap is available from $119 onwards. Higher varieties of Vicis products cost from $950 for Zero 1, adult helmet and $495 for the youth series. Vicis offers team-based rates and anticipates discounts on crowdfunding platform FundMy Team. Vicis’s youth helmet is placed first in Virginia Tech’s inaugural youth football helmet safety ratings. The Vicis Zero 1 was one of Time Magazine's 25 Best Inventions of 2017 that also bagged first in the NFL’s recent helmet safety test.
The participation of football has reduced in recent years, contributed by the high rate of head injuries. A small research team from Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center suggested that the high school teams that used the Zero 1 helmet mentioned a few concussions.
“We invested in VICIS because its commitment to player safety, specifically at the youth level is one we wanted to support,” stated Roger Staubach, former NFL player. Vicis has risen about more than $85 million from its existing investors that include current and former NFL players Aaron Rodgers, Russell Wilson, Dough Baldwin, Alex Smith, Roger Staubach, and Jerry Rice.
Vicis is looking forward to create a more safety helmet for other sport, according to Marver, as fast as next year. The company bud from the University of Washington in 2014, aiming to design and build safety products in the Seattle area.
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