To provide an impact absorbing pad material, especially an impact absorbing pad material for the horse-riding protectors which can improve the impact resisting absorption capacity while achieving a lower cost and a lighter weight with a simple structure and moreover, a protector using the same.

The high impact absorbing pad employs a structure of one layer (made of a flexible foam such as polypropylene foam) or two layers (a synthetic resin film fastened on the surface of the layer made of the polypropylene foam or the like or a cushionable synthetic resin material fastened on the rear of the polypropylene foam or the like) or moreover, three layers (in addition to the former one of the two types of double-layer structure, a cushionable synthetic resin material such as ethylene vinyl acetate polymer fastened on the lower layer).