Quote Originally Posted by ThomasTabin
Quote Originally Posted by Sharla
So you fix it now how? Readjust the headgear or something? Wear different headgear? I like my top ten because it allows good peripheral vision but I've never had to look down at a sparring partner either!
I have this idea to make headgear with a unique design specialized so to maximize vision and be light in weight. The padding is thin and not intended to absorb the impact of blows like the heavily padded headgear. The forehead is covered so that it runs over the crown of the head since thats the most salient part of the head (think buddy mcgirt). the padding doesnt come all the way down to the brow because if have your chin down your eyes must therefore be looking upward. If there's padding up there you won't see anything. the next feature is two traingular shaped paddings that runs up along the cheeks and srrounds the nose so that the nose sits between the two pads. its similar to the headgear with the cheek protection but instead of the pads coming horizontally across the face they come up from under so that you can have periperhal vision. If the pads come from the side you take that away. I have a nice nose and its not broken but I was always scared of breaking it. helped my defense alot being that way. But another reason for having that feature is that it takes forever to heal a broken nose which is absolutely counter productive. So its important that headgear should stop it. Unfortunately not many do and the ones that do rob you of a genuine fighting experience.

visualizing it all together it should look like typcial headgear but much thinner, with the face area opened up more so as to see more with your peripheral vision. Ive had this idea for a long time and I guess its going to stay that way because it requires some initiative to actually make. Ive never had too much of that.
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