Protection

The more I read this thread the more I start to think maybe I need to make the investment in some decent head/face protection. At the moment I'm playing in a DJ style helmet. One of the issues that I have is helmets that work with glasses. I've found that helmets can wrap a little towards the front of the face and that this can cause the sides of my glasses to be pinched in making them rather uncomfortable or worse damaging the side arms on my glasses. Any suggestions on what might work? I'm very budget limited so cheaper the better. Ideally I'd get some serious sport glasses but that's just not an option at the moment.

just get an Oakley hockey visor and mod it with a chin bar...

Hmm...

$75
http://www.hockeystopohio.com/Oakley/Fullface.htm

i bit my tongue in the final on sunday, was painful. a mouthguard would sort this?

It is Jono's wisdom that rugby players wear mouth guards to prevent tongue biting.

(Horses swallow their tongues, not people, I just remembered.)

aufmunch bites his tongue where he should be biting his lip.

Mouthguards in rugby are to prevent concussion; your jaw can't smash into your skull, make sense?

Ah ok. Eliminating tongue biting is an auxiliary benefit, perhaps.

you could still bite through your tongue with your lower row of teeth

but less liekly

Ha, do you know how teeth work?

I like the introduction of 'Jono's wisdom' a la Murphy's law.

Jono's wisdom: what Jono believes to be true

That's right. 'It is the wisdom of such and such' is a way of acknowledging the knowledge of others, without asserting it as an axiom.

When did I talk about Rugby with you? Mouth guards are to prevent your teeth being knocked out?!

Tongue biting? Sounds like I was making a (bad?) pun?

Jono's wisdom is mostly third-hand: passed down from the "word on the street" to the "down low" and finally to me.

I dunno, I definitely had this conversation someone.. Maybe about hockey.

Anyway, it doesn't matter, mouth guards to a range of things and we shouldn't limit ourselves in imagining the possibilities of their utility.

In American football you have to wear mouth guards and I was told it was to stop tongues being bitten.

Case closed.

I bet it was Ali who told me!

I'm getting a muzzle... I'll get Beagle one too...

Anyway, it doesn't matter, mouth guards to a range of things and we shouldn't limit ourselves in imagining the possibilities of their utility.

Beautiful

The more I read this thread the more I start to think maybe I need to make the investment in some decent head/face protection. At the moment I'm playing in a DJ style helmet. One of the issues that I have is helmets that work with glasses. I've found that helmets can wrap a little towards the front of the face and that this can cause the sides of my glasses to be pinched in making them rather uncomfortable or worse damaging the side arms on my glasses. Any suggestions on what might work? I'm very budget limited so cheaper the better. Ideally I'd get some serious sport glasses but that's just not an option at the moment.

I retro fitted a cricket cage to my helmet to create a face cage from a similar DJ job. Cheap to do and only takes a bit of drilling and a few bolts. I've seen the cage attached by zip ties too.

I went back and read the whole thread (it was a quicker mission that Bike Porn!) and can see the faceguard + DJ combo working. The only concern I have is getting something catching under the chin bar or crashing with a face plant. Anybody had issues with this? Other than that it looks like the way to go for glasses compatibility.

The £10 661 lid + £5 guard + £3 bolts (my current lid has never been the best fit) seems to be the budget bargain. I've had a look at the full face BMX/DH helmets and they're just to much money and don't really seem to offer much protection for eyes and weigh the thick end of 1Kg.

And you won't be able to see anything.

I dunno, Beadle got quite a good look at the court surface the other week.

Oof!

I went back and read the whole thread (it was a quicker mission that Bike Porn!) and can see the faceguard + DJ combo working. The only concern I have is getting something catching under the chin bar or crashing with a face plant. Anybody had issues with this? Other than that it looks like the way to go for glasses compatibility.

The £10 661 lid + £5 guard + £3 bolts (my current lid has never been the best fit) seems to be the budget bargain. I've had a look at the full face BMX/DH helmets and they're just to much money and don't really seem to offer much protection for eyes and weigh the thick end of 1Kg.

I'm a specs wearer, from when I started playing I wore a Pro-Tec B2 helmet as it's what I had, fits fine with my Specsavers Buddy Holly replicas or proper cycling shades. Recently put a Rawlings baseball cage on it; main concerns are the bolts are close to edge of helmet & lowest rail close to my chin. Crashed a few times wearing it, no problems. Reg bought a Fixcraft/Rawlings cage for his Watts helmet & it's just as close to his chin.
It probably restricts my vision a little, but like driving a machine with a trash guard you get used to it & stop focusing on the cage.
However, would like to try a cricket guard on same type helmet, wire's a bit thinner & mounting plate wider.

your always free to give mine a try cab to see which you prefer