Sweet Protection’s Trooper 2Vi Mips Helmet Wins Gear of the Year Award

Sweet Protection, an industry leader in high-performance helmets, goggles and technical clothing, announced its Trooper 2Vi Mips Helmet has earned the coveted Gear of the Year Award from Outside, the latest in a string of accolades for the company’s trademarked 2Vi high-performance technology platform.

Released in January along with the Grimnir 2Vi Mips Helmet, Sweet Protection’s Trooper 2Vi Mips Helmet builds on the company’s 20-year history of perfecting world-class impact protection in its products and pushes the boundaries for what’s possible for performance and comfort in the world of adventure sports.

Sweet Protection developed the 2Vi technology platform that allows for increased protection performance compared to previous generation helmets at low- and high-impact speeds without compromising on weight and volume, and also offers increased protection against rotational forces due to the unique, integrated two-layer Mips technology.

While the integrated two-layer Mips technology reduces the risk of geometric lock and allows for increased comfort, the 2Vi technology also offers a complex geometry multi-density shock absorbing liner to improve impact dissipation as well as a next-generation variable elasticity shell with increased rigidity to serve as a valuable first line of defense against impacts.

The Trooper 2Vi Mips helmet was also named one of the Best Helmets for 2022 by Ski Magazine and Freeride.com said the helmet was “completely re-engineered using only the best materials, technologies and production technologies available.”