Helmet.

This is coolbert:

This blog entry is a reprise of one done much earlier.

Found some photos on the web that show military helmets that provide protection for the back of the neck.

A something that has been known to the the ancients [Romans] and apparently also to Asian moderns as well.

I noticed this first when seeing newspaper coverage of rioting thaty occurred in Taiwan not so long ago.

Riot cops were deployed by the Taiwanese authorities in anticipation of a "demonstration".

In the center of the riot cop formation were two plain clothes officers that had helmets cradled in their arms. The helmets were similar to the American "Fritz" helmet but had padded cushions extending downward from the back of the helmet. To provide special protection for a particularly senstive area of the body, the nape of the neck!



It is intuitive that the human neck is protected from the front by the chin. We humans have chins and other great apes DO NOT! That of itself is amazing. Our spinal columns are closer to the skin and have much less fleshy protection in the rear of the neck than from the front. These pads extending downward from the rear of the helmet obviously provide support and protection where it is most needed!!



As I have said many time, sometimes the old ways are the best ways. And ways that have to be relearned over and over.


coolbert.