In a series of earlier posts, I talked a bit about equipment safety standards and how the homologation rules used by the FIE could be useful in constructing a set of HES-specific equipment safety guidelines. However, much of that was very high level as I had no data to back up some of my claims and could not work through some comparisons with the FIE standards. In my posts on effective bending stiffness and blade buckling, I used FIE weapons rules to provide some comparisons with HES trainers but did not discuss their relevance to safety equipment in much detail.
So now that we have some data on thrusts, and that is the major focus of FIE homologation, let's use the data to see what we can learn! In this part, I'll focus on neck injuries and some mask constraints based on the thrust data.
