Average Reviews:
(More customer reviews)(NOTE: This review was originally written for the prescription inserts, but Amazon no longer lists those separately.)
I practice karate & got tired of having my glasses knocked off. I wanted something functional that didn't look dorky. I did a fair amount of research & decided on the Bullet Ant goggles.
The goggles are actually pretty cool. They're good looking and they don't block your peripheral vision (on the sides anyway, down is another matter: think kicks.) If you get smacked upside the head, the padding distributes the blow well; and of course they stay on instead of flying across the dojo. They'll fit under or over your headgear just fine. All well and good.
The only complaint I have about the goggles themselves is that there isn't much ventilation - leading them to fog up. There's some foam mesh covering the vents, if you remove it that will alleviate the ventilation problem to some degree, but won't fix it entirely.
But their solution for prescriptions is rather poor. It's designed as an insert that hangs inside the goggles, suspended from a clip that points *down.* It's very easy for a stray blow to dislodge it, once I got smacked hard enough to knock the lens out of the insert itself!
With the insert inside the poorly-ventilated goggles, you now have three surfaces to fog up, instead of just one. And boy howdy, do they ever fog up. I will say that my *opponents* seem to like sparring with a blind man but it doesn't work for me, y'know? %^P
So, okay, they're good looking goggles with some nice features - but the prescription version is just not for contact sports, or any sport where you're sweating a lot or getting jostled a lot or . . . ?
== UPDATE ==
I eventually bought a run-of-the-mill pair of sport goggles to use in the dojo, but the Bullet Ants do work well for motorcycle riding (and they compliment my biker-wannabe look rather nicely. ;-)
Click Here to see more reviews about: Revision Bullet Ant Goggles, Black - Essential Kit w/ Clear, Solar Lens 4-0045-0201
Revision Bullet Ant Goggles, Black - Essential Kit w/ Clear, Solar Lens 4-0045-0201
0 comments:
Post a Comment