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StudentPermalink Reply by dinahmyte on December 21, 2010 at 12:24pm

uh..  i have... and sometimes still do... but from my experience, it can get dangerous.  i've whacked myself in the face before and it felt like i broke my nose...  my suggestion...  take them off when you hoop unless you SERIOUSLY need them, which it doesn't sound like you do.  good luck!  ^.^

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StudentPermalink Reply by Sarah Maccarelli Jordan on December 21, 2010 at 12:44pm

Thanks...I'm defintely going to be hooping without them. :)

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Permalink Reply by Sarah "Dwiizie" on December 21, 2010 at 12:29pm

I have terrible vision. Terrible! I also have dry eyes, so a lot of times contacts are not an option for daily wear. I hoop with my glasses on, and just as you quickly learn to "retract" moves in a crowd to avoid hitting people, or recover from botched moves as gracefully as possible, you quickly learn to protect eyewear. I don't know if you already have frames picked out, but don't go plastic, as its brittle, and easy to smash. I have very lightweight titanium frames and they will take a beating for sure. A perk to being near-blind though, is that I never need a blindfold for Baxter style hooping. I just take my glasses off and make sure that they're nowhere I can step on them and voila. Not to say blindfolds are completely out, I still use them now and then. Its just an interesting mix to use my "real eyes" as I call them while hooping. Its organic. So yeah, glasses, pros, cons, neutrals, my take on the whole bit. Since I wear glasses more often than contacts, sometimes its a bad idea to wear contacts just for a show or event without my backup glasses. First, if my eyes get irritated, its really hard to hoop. Second, depth perception and general effects on the world caused by the difference in contact and glass lenses can get you a bit dizzy and/or uncoordinated. I remember when I had to stop wearing contacts daily and I put on my glasses, it made all the walls look convex. I have heard some stories of broken glasses, and people wanting to invest in sports glasses. I have definitely flung my glasses a few times (duck outs are usually the cause.) It also sucks if you smoosh your glasses INTO your face, because the nose peice hurts, and if its plastic, won't have any give. Foot hooping on my back I usually take a hit to the forearms, knees, chest, anything but the face lol (another thing my body quickly adapted to avoiding) Welcome to the club, have fun hooping in your new frames. I wonder, since you've hooped without them, and I've been hooping with them since I started hooping, if it will be similar to adjusting to hooping with a wig or jewelry on. I'm rambling. Happy hooping!

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StudentPermalink Reply by Sarah Maccarelli Jordan on December 21, 2010 at 12:49pm

Thanks for the detailed answer, Sarah :) I'm going to keep hooping without them. I got plastic rims and don't want to risk breaking them or the pain of having them smash into my nose. :)

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Permalink Reply by amanda marie on December 21, 2010 at 12:35pm

I wear glasses all the time when I hoop- It hasn't presented a problem as of yet but i've hit them a couple of times.  I'll take them off if I'm ever trying anything where my face is in the direct line of fire but other than it's been ok!  And i need them to see as well so if I don't have them on I'm blind!  but yeah I'd be careful because anytime you get hit on your glasses it seems as if the pain amount is tripled as dinahmyte eluded to.  happy hooping :)

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StudentPermalink Reply by Sarah Maccarelli Jordan on December 21, 2010 at 12:50pm

Thanks Amanda...I'm going to hoop without them just to be on the safe side ;)

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ModPermalink Reply by Martika* of MartikasMysticDesign on December 21, 2010 at 12:59pm

I wear my glasses when hooping, i tried to switch to contacts but it just wasn't the same and i had so much trouble taking them out. After much practicing I've gotten pretty good at stopping the hoop or catching if it nears my face that i don't have a problem with breaking them or hitting my face. I go to my nearest glasses store (walmart,target, or my eye doctors) and they will adjust your glasses for free so they stay tight on your face and wont fly off.

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StudentPermalink Reply by Amy the Industrial Hooper on December 21, 2010 at 1:01pm

I have strap on recreational-style safety glasses. They were cheap: seventy bucks, with lenses in. I wear those, because frankly my real glasses are well over three hundred dollars (the lenses alone are over seventy bucks a pop), and I've had waaaay too many near misses while wearing my normal glasses and doing poi.

And frankly if I don't wear glasses, I can't see. I'm a -7.5 on the right and -6.75 on the left. So yup, safety glasses.

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StudentPermalink Reply by Halo on December 21, 2010 at 1:07pm

I'm near-sighted and I don't need my glasses to hoop. I also have a very long track record of breaking every pair of glasses within a year,my current pair being the exception. I've been super careful with this pair and I'm going on almost 3 years so naturally, I take my glasses off when I hoop.  : )

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StudentPermalink Reply by Betherann on December 21, 2010 at 2:30pm

I do!  Sometimes I knock 'em off, but I tend to feel queasy if I try to go without my glasses.

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StudentPermalink Reply by Jenni on December 21, 2010 at 2:48pm

I get the exact same feeling if i hoop without my glasses.

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Permalink Reply by Richie 'Monkey Mooncalf' Isaacs on December 21, 2010 at 2:41pm

I take mine off when I'm attempting off body stuff as I have an uncanny knack of knocking them off  & also doing  the already mentioned face-smoosh & now they don't sit right but for core hooping I leave them on

Also seeing as I am blind as a kid when it's time to do the dishes (what dishes?) I take them off instead of being blindfolded for, well, blindfold zen hooping.

 

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