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No, in any sport that relies heavily on viusual acuity it's akin to doping.
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No for another reason. (please explain)
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Yes, an aid like this would improve my performance and they look cool too.
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Yes for another reason. (please explain)
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Other (please explain)
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03-14-2006, 10:06 AM
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#1 | | Incorruptible
Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: NJ
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| Nike MaxSight
Would you wear these if they made them for indoor sports? http://www.nike.com/nikevision/main.html#section=home
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03-14-2006, 12:37 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Bay Area
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| It's definately an interesting concept, but I'd want more evidence of an improvement before getting new contacts (and besides, they don't come in even close to my prescription yet.)
EDIT: My mistake; they do come in my prescription; I mistook the polarity of it.
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03-14-2006, 12:52 PM
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#3 | | Senior Member
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| Voted no, I don't wear contacts. Just don't want them. 
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03-14-2006, 03:29 PM
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#4 | | Senior Member
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| I had actually tried to get a set, but it turns out they don't have a tauric version, just spherical. So my eyes were incompatible. I was very dissapointed.
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03-15-2006, 05:07 PM
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#5 | | Senior Member
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| What do you mean by indoor sports? I don't know about the rest of you, but I have little problems with sun glare while indoors... | |
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03-15-2006, 05:33 PM
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| What color would you focus it for? Gray for blades? Whitish for uniforms? | 
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03-15-2006, 09:27 PM
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#7 | | Just Joined
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| I think its just another con that gets us to buy expensive products from nike. As long as I can see with my regular contacts in, I think I'll be fine.
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03-16-2006, 12:37 PM
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#8 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
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Originally Posted by gtmac Would you wear these if they made them for indoor sports? | No. Simply because they wouldn't be made anywhere even remotely close to my perscription... 
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03-18-2006, 10:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Epee Scherma I had actually tried to get a set, but it turns out they don't have a tauric version, just spherical. So my eyes were incompatible. I was very dissapointed. | just close your astigmatism eye 
plus walking around with orange eyes might be weird...
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03-20-2006, 07:47 AM
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#10 | | Senior Member
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| i hate contacts. too troublesome. washing sucks. really.
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03-20-2006, 09:29 AM
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Originally Posted by howardroark I think its just another con that gets us to buy expensive products from nike. As long as I can see with my regular contacts in, I think I'll be fine. | It would proberly be cheaper to buy a vision 200 mask and tint the lens the right colour.
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03-20-2006, 10:32 AM
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#12 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
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Originally Posted by EpeeBunney It would proberly be cheaper to buy a vision 200 mask and tint the lens the right colour. | 'Might be a bit obstructive when biking though...
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03-20-2006, 06:39 PM
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#13 | | Member
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| True, but at lest it would stop all the twig and branches hitting you in the face. Plus you could scare little kids by doing bad Cylon improessions 
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03-21-2006, 12:51 AM
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| Don't you know? Cylons look like people... | |
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03-21-2006, 01:10 AM
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#15 | | Fencing Coach
Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Amarillo, Texas
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| No for two reasons.
1. MONEY
2. contacts suck in sports because I tend to rub my eyes at breaks because they get dry without contacts..... | |
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05-24-2006, 04:59 AM
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#16 | | Senior Member
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| They don't seem like they'd do anything beneficial... | |
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05-25-2006, 06:12 AM
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#17 | | Member
Join Date: May 2006 Location: Chad
Posts: 78
| I need to wear glasses to correct my vision, but I don't really like contacts. I've never tried using contacts while fencing though, but I don't think I would like it. As for my glasses, I usually don't wear them while I fence because they don't fit into my mask!
Looking through the website, Nike's got sport glasses as well. The ones for baseball appear to be the most likely candidate to be able to fit into a fencing mask; if they can fit underneath a baseball helmet, why not a fencing mask?
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05-26-2006, 04:14 AM
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#18 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 1,059
| I'd rather fence with uncorrected vision than fence with glasses, something on my nose just completely throws me off I don't know why.
I don't need to see the blade, I can sense it coming...
That and I can distance parry.... | |
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05-26-2006, 10:52 AM
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#19 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: South Carolina über Alles
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| I may see about getting the free trial just for kicks. If I do I'll let you all know what it was like.
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