Put it another way as I hinted at earlier:
Tv programme/film/advert:
Paintball is regularly shown with actors using either just the goggles over the eyes with the rest of the mask removed, or they hide behind a bunker and lift/remove goggles to talk
This is followed by outrage accross the worlds forums and some words of reason that it's going to happen for dialog etc.
The perfect example gets slagged off every now and then - byker grove with an 'off world' game resulting in ant or dec taking off his goggles after the game and then gets shot in the eye. Result is he is blinded and consequences are shown - including a minor pop career and reality shows
What if a film showed a tournament team and a pro player lifted his goggles to call to the rest of the team?
Cue outrage because a professional would never do that in the middle of a game, and certainly not win paint flying around
On the main point of the OPs question - are the goggles that bad?
Looking from the footage I would not spend good money on those goggles: you need to lift the goggles to be able to call to a team mate in the proximity of a speedba game?
As a professional he has an obligation to sponsors. This includes getting products into public view.
He has some choice - if products are that bad then don't represent them,but there will be a team obligation as well so it's not down to pure personal choice
If products are that bad then feedback to the sponsor
Does this however point to a different subject? Radios in tournaments - should they be used to enable communication without compromising safety?
Alternately were the accoustics realy so bad that he needed to lift goggles to communicate?
Tv programme/film/advert:
Paintball is regularly shown with actors using either just the goggles over the eyes with the rest of the mask removed, or they hide behind a bunker and lift/remove goggles to talk
This is followed by outrage accross the worlds forums and some words of reason that it's going to happen for dialog etc.
The perfect example gets slagged off every now and then - byker grove with an 'off world' game resulting in ant or dec taking off his goggles after the game and then gets shot in the eye. Result is he is blinded and consequences are shown - including a minor pop career and reality shows
What if a film showed a tournament team and a pro player lifted his goggles to call to the rest of the team?
Cue outrage because a professional would never do that in the middle of a game, and certainly not win paint flying around
On the main point of the OPs question - are the goggles that bad?
Looking from the footage I would not spend good money on those goggles: you need to lift the goggles to be able to call to a team mate in the proximity of a speedba game?
As a professional he has an obligation to sponsors. This includes getting products into public view.
He has some choice - if products are that bad then don't represent them,but there will be a team obligation as well so it's not down to pure personal choice
If products are that bad then feedback to the sponsor
Does this however point to a different subject? Radios in tournaments - should they be used to enable communication without compromising safety?
Alternately were the accoustics realy so bad that he needed to lift goggles to communicate?
