MMA and contact lenses

[Strepto]

Here is a cut-paste from the K-1 official rule book

Article 2
Each fighter shall wear regulation gloves provided by the promoter, a protective cup and a mouthpiece.Contact lenses are also prohibited. . Gloves sizes for each weight class are as follows...

Why are contact lenses prohibited? Are they prohibited too in Pride ans UFC?

[hoplite]

Eye Injury

Neither Pride's nor UFC's posted rules address contact lenses. K-1's prohibition is probably intended to protect the fighter's eyes.

A sparring partner of mine always removed his lenses before any session we had. I think it's a bad idea to wear them while sparring or any similar training. So it's best to take them off.

[eXcessiveForce]

hard contacts can cause a lot of trauma to the eye if struck. Also there is a problem with contacts and unconciousness. I do not know the specifics of it but I do now that it is important to get the out if someone is knocked out.
It may come from that.

[platinum_angel]

really i was just about to get lenses so i could fight.............. i guess that means people who wear glasses are screwed

[Szczepankiewicz]

i guess that means people who wear glasses are screwed

You wish.

[Strepto]

That's what i was thinking. I can understand that hard contact lenses can cause a problem but soft ones (like mines) wouldn't be a safety issue i think.

[Tom Yum]

How about people who wear monacles? BTW Strepto, you are in BAD need of some eye drops. Major Red eye

[Szczepankiewicz]

I hear monacles are coming back into fashion.

Get yours now before the trend picks up full steam and they get outrageous!

[Strepto]

BTW Strepto, you are in BAD need of some eye drops. Major Red eye

That's what you get from smoking too much weed!

[Tom Yum]

How much weed can an angry owl smoke?

[eXcessiveForce]

Lasik works wonders.

[tekshow]

i've worn mine for years and never had a problem, even taken some eye gouges

[shadowkiller]

How many here actually have to wear glasses? I do but my perscription isnt too bad so I can see fairly well without them. At least well enough to be in a fight.

[Bjjexpertise@be]

I wear glasses when I fight/grapple, is it really a bad thing? If they hit your eye will the contact go up your ey, never to befound again?

[eXcessiveForce]

the main problems with contacts in corneal abrasions, lack of oxygen to the eye, and fragmentation into the eye.

I had to wear contacts but I got lasik a year ago