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Contact Lenses and SportShould I wear contact lenses whilst participatingcorrective glasses for watersportFirstly I suppose it depends on your sport. Personally I do use contacts, but only in the sports where glasses are a real pain. Here’s a list of what I do, and my thoughts. Contacts and Badminton Contacts are not essential for badminton, and I probably wear glasses more often than not.
Contacts and Windsurfing
You can’t easily wear glasses when you are windsurfing, and if you do, the chances are that you dont want to lose them if you fall in. Contacts on the other hand are (particularly the disposable daily ones) are , well, disposable. Even if you do lose one, its not the end of the world. You can get sunglasses specifically for watersports (seapecs I think) and I assume you can get them fitted with corrective lenses. - they float too.
Contacts for Power Kiting
I do quite a lot of this, and have over the last year or so been wingsurfing (Dirtsurfer and Kitewing), this entails travelling at significant speed (up to 40mph) on a beach. Glasses are a real pain, as wet sand slaps you in the face quite regularly and for this reason, I tend tto wear contacts but also use some wrap around sunglasses. Two reasons: It stops the sand splashing me in the eyes, it protects me from the UV, and it looks cool. Well maybe not the 3rd one.
Surfing in Contact lenses
Yes. I do, not that I’m anything other than a complete novice bodyboarder, but I do use contacts, as I find it helps me recognise my mates if nothing else.
Wearing contact lenses for sports really does make a lot of sense. It’s a great improvement for sports where glasses reall dont help. How many footballers or tennis players do you see wearing glasses? Contacts are also very useful for watersports. windsurfing, surfing etc.
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