Make Sure Your Eyebrows Move For Fit
Riding helmets are designed to protect from certain types of injuries that are common to the sport. Your equestrian helmet should sit lower on the forehead with a fit snug enough that shaking the rider’s helmet back and forth causes their eyebrows to move up and down. If it doesn’t, the helmet is probably too big or needs to be better adjusted.
In my clinic tour, I regularly see riders wearing helmets that are tilted sideways on their heads or tilted back, and it lets me know that their helmet is not fitted correctly. Sometimes it’s just a matter of tightening up the chin strap or using the fit adjustment system.
Too small a helmet will sit up too high on the head and too big a helmet will slosh around too much to make the helmet ineffective. That’s one reason why helmets with an adjustable fit systems are superior.
