hello,
so, I wear prescription glasses and I'm looking to get a pair specifically for kite surfing. I use transitions lenses for everyday use (those that turn to sunnies in the sun). I've been using an old pair of prescription sunnies for kiting and now its getting dark early I need something else.
Any recs??
Fuglies - ozzy co. - do prescription lenses in work safe approved glasses.
We are WA agents for Fuglies. If you have any trouble finding them we can help.
How about contacts. Wearing glasses you still have to contend with drops on the lens which are very annoying. I've found contacts to be much better
Don't contacts fall out when you stack? I bit the bullet and got lazored, best thing I've ever done.
Another vote for SeaSpecs! I use them for sailing as well. They are comfortable and really secure in even the worst crash / capsize.
I've been using SeaSpecs with scrip for several years now, not sure about the "not cheap" comment - local kite shop is selling them for $50, my regular optometrist dropped a set of lens in for $70 (which the health fund paid for) so you can pick exactly what lens you want. Has to be the cheapest glasses I've ever purchased.
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Don't contacts fall out when you stack? I bit the bullet and got lazored, best thing I've ever done.
2 years of some pretty big and frequent crashes and eating ** kite wise, and never lost a contact. I can even open my eyes under water with them and their fine.
I'd prefer contacts to glasses as glasses get covered in salty water whilst kiting... still, i often use those seaspec style glasses when kiting (over contacts as a 'cooler pair of goggles).
Good luck with the choice. No wrong choice, just choices.
I just wear contacts (-4 vision). I've had one blown out of an eye only twice in 4 years. It only happens occasionally when you catch an unexpected edge and face plant and don't have time to close your eyes. I keep a spare set in my bag, car, and sunglasses case.
I'd be more worried about impacts to your face and eyes from the glasses themselves when stacking it hard.
I wear prescripton sun glasssess with a cord with some fluoro floaties threaded. Works for me and if your glasses come off you get a chance to find them as they float. Quite rare for them to come off and if I lose a pair every few years the comfort of sunnies is worth it for me. I always find if you really do take a full face plant at the angle where you owuld worry you probbably need them to come off and they do.
thanks everyone... I think I will try both contacts, and may get a pair of sea specs and see if my local SpecSavers can put a transition lens in them for me. I normally wear multi-focals so the issue for me with contacts, is when I'm wearing them I can't see anything up close, can't read texts on my phone etc etc, unless I have my reading glasses on! This getting older sucks!! But hey, at least I'm kite surfing...
Select to expand quoteSueLouise said..
thanks everyone... I think I will try both contacts, and may get a pair of sea specs and see if my local SpecSavers can put a transition lens in them for me. I normally wear multi-focals so the issue for me with contacts, is when I'm wearing them I can't see anything up close, can't read texts on my phone etc etc, unless I have my reading glasses on! This getting older sucks!! But hey, at least I'm kite surfing...
Hi Sue. I have prescription glasses on all the time when kiting (would not be able to kite without them). But I did not go with sea specs, etc. Just pop into OPSM (I found them to be most understanding of a kiter's needs), and they gave me the right advice in terms of frames that are best suited for the sport. I have a stigmatism as well, so I had very limited choice in frames due to curvature of the lenses. In the end I ended up with RayBans and I got both a pair of prescription sunnies and normal reading glasses for work. Both were not cheap, but well worth it I thought because at the end of the day, you want to kite and not have to squint or get your kite tangled up with someone else's.
My other advice is to purchase a YELLOW pair (get a set) of floating sunny straps. Most marine shops have them and get the ones that are thick and round, as they float the best. Trust me, kiting and doing jumps you will eventually pop the sunnies/glasses off your head and suddenly you'll see them floating next to you due to the strap's yellow colouring. And being thick, they float very well as a contrast to the ocean water. They only cost me $8 a pair and wow... have saved thousands already if I had lost my sunnies in the surf.
