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Sunglasses and rolling
Posted By: Malcolm Schweizer In Response To: Re: What I learned in rolling today... (Ed Deery)
Date: Tuesday, 16 January 2007, at 6:24 p.m.
Good day,
I use something like croakies, I'm not sure if it's that brand. I was surfing some waves around these big boulders and rolled and busted my head on a rock. The Oakley Fives I was wearing did what they're designed to do... the temple piece snapped out (it can snap out and snap back in rather than it just breaking). Unfortunately it then jammed into my eye and I had to literally pull it out of my eye socket. Ouch!!! The glasses were lost, and I still have a spot in my vision. I need to note that the doctor said the spot may have been a pre-existing condition that was aggravated by the accident, but I have to say that there was no spot in my vision prior to the accident, and it prominently showed up after it. I have had laser surgery to try to correct it but that eye still doesn't work as good as it should, without going into the details.
Anyway, they do help hold your glasses on, but when stressed something has to give, either them or the glasses, or in my case even your eye!!!! Also I should mention I still use them, so I'm not dissing the croakies because this was an accident beyond what they were designed to do so it's my fault, not the product's. Just be careful rolling around rock gardens.
I have a pair of sunglasses that I use for kite-boarding that are more like goggles. They are small like sunglasses, but have a strap like goggles. What I really love is that they have pads that raise them from your face and you don't get the oil from your skin or your suntan lotion all over the lens of your glasses. I really hate when that happens. They work great for kayaking, and they don't have temples to break off and stick into your eye!!!
Regards,
Malcolm
P.S. Wear a helment, which would have saved me all this grief. Now I wear a brain bucket when surfing near rocks. In deep water it stows on deck.
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