Football season has returned and a Carlsbad-based company is doing its part to make sure players are safe from concussions.
Light Helmets have used state-of-the-art technology to develop a football helmet that will reduce head injuries. The helmets don't just help those playing tackle football. They have also developed a helmet for flag football.
"Flag football is the fastest growing sport in America right now with over seven million kids playing," Light Helmet CEO Nicholas Esayian told KGTV.
Even though flag football is considered a non-contact sport, head injuries still occur.
"We see kids playing flag football and they do make contact, whether that is their head hitting the ground, another kid's head, or a knee. So there is that opportunity for injury."
"We don't build helmets to pass a test, we build them for real-world play in athletes. Even if only some of these kids are wearing this helmet, because they are soft, it can protect another athlete that is not wearing a helmet or piece of headgear. When you have head to head contact it protects that athlete as well."
Esayian told KGTV their new helmets can also be worn to reduce injury risk in women's soccer which is reportedly the number one concussed sport in the U.S.