I wear eye glasses and want to play hockey. Should I buy contact lenses or are there any visors that can help?

Question

I want to play hockey but I wear eye glasses to see objects far away. I would like to know if there are any visors that can help with this problem or will I have to get contact lenses. How have others gone about this problem?

Answer 1

Threre are sports glasses that are kinda like goggles. They have a strap to keep them on your eyes. I guess you could go the contacts route as well. I know nothing about prescription/corrective visors for hockey.

Answer 2

There are standards for goggles/visors made for safety both at work and in sports.

Work standards and quality of glasses standards are known as ANSI. Sports standards are ASTM.

If you get goggles, make sure they meet the appropriate ASTM standard. The standard for hockey is ASTM F513 - 00

You should get these goggles whether or not you wear glasses - those pucks move fast and hard and can cause some serious damage!

Contact lenses will give you more peripheral vision - this helps in any sport. See your optometrist if you want to get a prescription for contact lenses.

If you don't want to wear contact lenses every day or don't want to worry about buying solutions and storing them, then consider daily disposable lenses. You put them on, on the day you want to wear them and throw them away at night. They're great for someone who just wants to wear contact lenses when you're playing hockey but not every day.

Contact lenses are great - as long as you care for the properly! Good luck!

Answer 3

There may be a visor of sort that can help with this - I'd suggest asking your hockey coach or gym teacher about this for better advice - but for safety reasons, I'd buy contacts. Playing an active (and often violent) sport like hockey could easily result in broken glasses, which would probably be expensive to fix or replace. Besides, it could put you in danger - if someone hits you in the face, it'd be better to be wearing contacts than glasses, which (again) could break.
And contacts aren't too expensive, especially if you only wear them during games.

Answer 4

if you are a player, i have heard of a couple of visor manufacturers that can produce prescription type visors for people who normally require wearing contacts or glasses...
i do believe its very pricy and in reality contact lenses are way more affordable...i think Oakley is one company that can make specialized optical visors but very big bucks!
my advice would be is to just get contact lenses

Answer 5

Sports glasses are (or should be) made not to fog up. You can also apply anti-fogging fluids to lenses to keep them clear.

And since full face guards are required at every level except the NHL and Major Junior hockey, it's unlikely you'll be playing without one. The only advantage of contacts over sports glasses is slightly better peripheral vision.


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Answer 6

Depends on what level you play at. If you are playing in non-contact league that is slow paced for beginners then buy Rain-X to put on your glasses and maybe a strap. If you are playing a fast paced contact game, buy contacts or you might as well play without glasses cause they will continually get knocked off. Imagine going on a break away and having to stop to realign your glasses.

Answer 7

If you can afford them then contacts are the way to go. If you cant get a full cage on your helmet and a sport strap for your glasses. To keep them from fogging you can go to your local eye glass place and buy an anti fog spray. I had to play with my glasses for a while before contacts and the anti fog spray worked pretty well (I believe the product was called See-Spray).

Answer 8

I tried to wear my glasses once playing ice hockey. I put a strap on them to keep them from falling off, but spent most off the game trying to keep the lens from fogging up. I went out and bought contact lens the next day. I agree with estmirabilis, go to where you got your glasses and talk to them about your options.

Answer 9

well..if ur anything but goalie..i reccomend contacts. Even if u do get a visor or something there still a chance ur glasses can fall off or something. Its a rough sport so ur gonna get hit, and hit things a lot..so obviousley ur gonna hit ur head..so yea..go with contacts

Answer 10

My experience is to wear contact lenses during sport. You will feel like you have good vision. You needn't to worry about sweat or other warm steam. Except for swimming. When swimming, you can wear contact lenses and then wear swimming goggle.

Wearing contact lenses is more convenient and good to your appearance.

Good luck!