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OK so I joined the face cage + hockey gloves frenzy. I cut a bunch of bars since that pic, and Josh I'll tell you why: In hockey the risk is to take either a thin, sharp and pointy carbon fiber stick in the face, or to get hit by a heavy and extra quick puck, or to get cut by a metal blade. In polo a ball to the face will probably only result in a back eye, and it's unlikely to hit you as it travels slower than hockey pucks, giving you that split second to avoid it. The most common injuries come from mallets, which are WAY bigger than hockey sticks. So cutting a few bars for visibility is pretty safe in my opinion. I'll post a pic of how I modified my cage but I doubt a mallet could find its way to my face through the gaps...
Hockey gloves on the other hand... what a cumbersome thing. Meh.