Originally posted by snave29 And McD, they do promote bounce. But the thing is repeat trauma to the breasts can cause a lot more serious medical issues down the road. It's a pretty serious safety issue.
I'm not as gifted as Liz so I don't tend to get many hits in these areas, but it's still a bit worrying.
I don't know of many guys wearing the old cricket box (except for the player who wears it on the outside). Do you blokes not worry about sensitive hits then?
Snave, I doubt if they would find it financially worthwhile to produce chest protectors in a very large range of sizes. There are few enough of us girlies in the sport and we range all the way from little more than gnat bites all the way up to "very generous". I'm a 40 inch chest and around an F/FF cup (depending on who is doing the measuring) and there's probably only about 3-4 female players in this country that big. So really not worth their while making a batch for that small number of people.
I've had to survive 15 years in this sport without a protector and doubt I have many years left playing at my age so I'm not too fussed, but it's nice that someone is thinking of the larger built female players
Yeah, I think F/FF is probably more than they would consider. I commend you on just being able to rest your tank. I would think it would be difficult with a cest that size.