Every time I dive in for a race, my goggles fall off or leak. I have tried many different types of goggles. Any suggestions to alleviate this issue. I have a race in four weeks and don't want this to distract from my swim.:blah:
Does anyone have any experience with those bungee-type straps? I find that the straps on goggles have changed a lot in the 15 years I'd been away from the sport and they are quite hard to adjust. (And where do kids write their names on their goggles these days?)
I've been using the bungee since about the beginning of their time in the swim world. I got a sample of them at an ASCA coaches clinic in New Orleans back in 2001, and tested it myself. Loved it and still use them now. At meet time, I just quick adjust the clip on them to be a little tighter, then loosen up again on Monday for practices.
I'm considering just soldering mine into my eye sockets cyborg-style (assimilation is inevitable). I had problems in my freestyle events at the last meet whereas I didn't with IM or ***... I just started doing starts from the blocks, so I'm no expert, but I think the only difference was that I might have been trying to get my head up a little earlier for freestyle to go shallow and get into my stroke faster... in the other two events I was trying to maximize my glide underwater, so I'm pretty sure I kept my head tucked and that's what made the difference. I didn't do anything else differently for the four forward starts (no extra tightening, goggles always under cap, etc.)... I'm going to focus on tucking that chin for all my starts from now on.
Every time I dive in for a race, my goggles fall off or leak. I have tried many different types of goggles. Any suggestions to alleviate this issue. I have a race in four weeks and don't want this to distract from my swim.:blah:
Tighten your goggs before you race. that should stop leaks and reduce the likelihood of them falling off
when you dive in and glide on the start, Keep your head down/neutral
WEAR goggles with a lip.
Pull the bottom of your cap over the top lip of your goggs and they won't come off
Every time I dive in for a race, my goggles fall off or leak. I have tried many different types of goggles. Any suggestions to alleviate this issue. I have a race in four weeks and don't want this to distract from my swim.:blah:
Swedish goggles (Monterbara); tight strap; use a piece of the strap instead of a string to link the eye-pieces. And what the others said about strap high on the head and goggles first, then cap. Or cap, goggle, cap, but I never tried that.
Depends what you found painful about them. If you took them out of the bag, tied them all together and put em on, I can see how that would be painful. A pair of sweeds is like a pair of shoes. You gotta work em in, get out a file and take off all the harsh edges and get them to fit your eye socket better. Also as was said the immovable string nosepiece isn't for everyone. Many people like a stretchable nosepiece. I could never get into that with a high bridge, so i stick with the string nosepiece. FTR I am talking about the monterbara ones, not the other brands.
Swedes definitely take some getting used to. Yes, they can be painful to wear at first since your inner orbitals aren't used to feeling pressure, but give them a week or so and you may never wear any other goggle again! :)
Some people like the "premium" version (a la TYR Socket Rockets) that have a light silicone coating which apparently provides some extra comfort, but when I tried those the fit felt 'off' as I suspect the extra padding adds 'm sure I could get used to it if I wanted to). But I think this version is probably a good place to start for those who want to try them out. Sporti makes both versions and they are both a whopping $3,(on swimoutlet) plus they come with both the rubber parts AND a nose string AND a bungee, so you have options. I personally go with the bungee and string as I've experienced greater longevity compared to using the rubber parts. FYI, both the Sporti version and the Malmsten/Monterbaras fit and feel the same to me.
Does anyone have any experience with those bungee-type straps? I find that the straps on goggles have changed a lot in the 15 years I'd been away from the sport and they are quite hard to adjust. (And where do kids write their names on their goggles these days?)
Three years later I finally discarded my first bungee strap. Never been happier so I bought a bungee strap for each pair of goggles i have. They also don't flip/slide down towards my ears on starts like the flat rubber straps sometimes did.
I have tried the Swedish goggles and I found them to be very painful. Maybe I should give them a try again, though. I just couldn't stand the way they felt and became preoccupied with it.
Depends what you found painful about them. If you took them out of the bag, tied them all together and put em on, I can see how that would be painful. A pair of sweeds is like a pair of shoes. You gotta work em in, get out a file and take off all the harsh edges and get them to fit your eye socket better. Also as was said the immovable string nosepiece isn't for everyone. Many people like a stretchable nosepiece. I could never get into that with a high bridge, so i stick with the string nosepiece. FTR I am talking about the monterbara ones, not the other brands.
All these people recommending specific goggles perplexes me. Everyone's faces are shaped differently. It stands to reason that goggles with different contours will fit differently. My recommendation is that you go into a shop with a fairly wide selection (I happen to live near a Kiefer store) and see what fits. If they fit you well, I think they should pretty much "stick" with just light external pressure - no straps. Of course, they won't stay on your face long without the straps, but if you can't get a decent seal in the store without a strap, I'd move onto another style. Once you find something that fits at that level, then sure, all the other tricks come into play.
Agree 100%! :agree: I have a very narrow face and had to try on literally dozens of pairs of goggles at a few different stores before I finally found one to fit: Tyr Women's T-72 Petite. I was so happy to find one that finally worked that I ended up buying up a few extra pairs. I keep one just for meets (adjusted tighter) and keep the others in their packages until I completely wear out a pair.
Good luck with your hunt, SuperChloe; been there, done that!
Agree 100%! :agree: I have a very narrow face and had to try on literally dozens of pairs of goggles at a few different stores before I finally found one to fit: Tyr Women's T-72 Petite. I was so happy to find one that finally worked that I ended up buying up a few extra pairs. I keep one just for meets (adjusted tighter) and keep the others in their packages until I completely wear out a pair.
Good luck with your hunt, SuperChloe; been there, done that!
Still most people end up with some specific model they had good experience with so I don't understand why shouldn't I announce the model? Just imagine that you don't know which model to try and folks just give some general ideas on selecting the right one. How much time you need spend to find the model which will fit? From another hand when you have a list of specific models people had good experience with you start from them and I'm pretty sure it will take less time to find the right model. It's quite obvious that the topic starter has to go to the shop and has to try the models we write about if they suite him.
Btw, I gave once my goggles to one girl from my team during a meet who used to have same problem with goggles falling off. Though we have absolutely different types of faces she had same great experience I did so I have another reason to recommend it.
Still most people end up with some specific model they had good experience with so I don't understand why shouldn't I announce the model?
I guess I should have been more specific when I said that I agreed 100%. I agreed 100% with everything after the first sentence! ;) Seriously, I mean that, too, because I started with the models I had read about on the forums. And, that is why I reached for the Tyr Petite's when I finally saw them at the last store I tried. I believe it was Bobinator who recommended them. If it wasn't her, it was somebody else who mentioned they were good for narrow faces.
So, yes, by all means, mention the model, good or bad! This will at least give goggle hunters a starting point for their search. :applaud:
