Why does everyone take the visors off their masks now ?

[CFD323]

Just flipping through some paintball mags, mostly PB2X, and noticed that so many players don't wear the visors anymore. Why is that ? Or is it just a fashion statement ? Seems like that visor protects the ol' forehead and bunkered shots in the head would hurt !

[adam shannon]

my guess is that most people think they are lowering their profile and/or thinking that chances for a bounce are better off their dome than a visor.

on a related note most players are wearing headbands and in some cases 3 or 4 on top of one another...i saw a guy take a bounce right off his forehead wearing 3 headbands.

kinda not legal..but thats what the pros do..until its written in the rules they will continue to find new ways to get over. i know guys that used to spray their goggles and wash their clothes in rain-x so paint wont stick...if you get a hit wait a minute and it all runs off. that ive been told is actually written as forbidden in the rules now.

[fire1811]

well you can have extra padding on your head but they are pushing it.

as for the visors, if you have tinted lenses you dont really need them. i personally dont use it and never did
just like it better without

[TheBigRaguPB4L]

I took it off my jt flex because i couldn't get the damned thing back on. The hole that holds the stupid thing is so small and the little plastic part that holds in into the mask is so flimsy. I can't get the stupid thing through.

[rudy6732]

also the visor blocks your vision if your looking out the top of your lens. this is the most logical reason i can think of.

[AlabamaMan]

I took mine off, because you can't see my dye headband with it on. Plain and simple.

Oh and it helped having it off my last tourny. I was diving into a bunker, and took a hit down the top left side of my mask. Cool thinkg is it didn't beark until it was right above my ear. I felt the hit, wiped my head for paint. Didn't get any, then the ref came over and checked me. Didn't see anything, so he called me clean. I thought it had bounced or something. I didn't even realize that it had broke till i was off the field, and took off my goggles. Oh well points ended up so close at the end, if i had been called out. We probably would have gotten second instead of first.

[pito189]

The Invision visor looks like crap. That is why I took if off of there. I wear two headbands, they are just cool don't you think. Don't have to worry about your backwards hat catching on the ground as you slide, and pulling your goggles off.

[TequilaMockingbird]

Paintball seems to have fads, things fall in and out of favor for very little reason. Nowadays one high-profile pro could say he WD-40s his pants to lower wind resistance on the break, and a legion of 14 year olds would suddenly have wet pants and smell like a service station.

Go with what you like, and screw what others think.

[Cryer]

mine broke

[Pile & A Half]

I've never like visors. They seem to get my way....just another extra thing to take onto the feild that you don't need. But when I first got my mask, I took and super glued a WarpedSportz sticker on it so it didn't look as much as a pile. But, I think a lot of mask's look better with out visors, such as the proteuss. Like they said, it's kind of a fad in a way. But I just can't stand them.

[shartley]

I wear mine. But I could take it or leave it. Sometimes we leave them off. I guess it just depends.

[Yamz]

my best answer is its the current fad but i like my visor and my dye sockhat so i will stick with that over any fad

[Load SM5]

I would rather play with mine off, for the bigger field of vison. But I've gotten so many bounces off of it, it's really kind of scary. One guy bounced paint off my visor while bunkering me from 3 feet. So I keep it on.

[JEDI]

Yeah, feild of vision, and lower profile mostly.

[lopxtc]

I took mine off many years ago while still playing the off hand rec ball game. The visor would snag on branches and such while running.

About the only time I put mine on now is when its raining.

Aaron