I gotta say sgt, these helmets are durable. I had a St Patricks day parade, and when we got back to the hotel lobby I got a really hard hit to the head by a drunk who had to have slammed his fist into the top of the helm. All I heard was WHAM! and felt a minor pain to my head, got a headache, but immidiately looked at the helm for damage, and nothing. And this dude hit the helm hard!