Sports Eyewear

  Archery

- Require contrast tints

  Canoeist

- Polarising tints

  Cricket

- Glare protection and impact protection

  Cycling

- High contrast filters and impact resistant lenses. Reflections must be reduced but water or oil on the road 

  must be identified. Mirror finishes reduce reflections.

  Colours to wear:

  high-contrast browns and copper - enhance the surfaces

  yellow - effective in limited light conditions

  Driving

- Polarised, photochromatic e.g Driverwear lenses.

  Fisherman

- Need polarised lenses in task specific colours for different types of fishing. For instance contrast enhancing lenses create the ability to determine small differences  in colour enabling the wearer to spot fish in grassy, shallow water. The other option is to use a lens colour that matches the background. The colour will be enhanced so the object will be more apparent in its difference.

Colours that matter:

grey- enhances dark fish and is best for deep water

amber - accentuates sandy bottoms in shallow water

brown - brings out grassy water bottoms

yellow - effective in low light or overcast conditions

As fishing is often an all day acitivity, the high contrast polarised photochromics will respond to the changing light levels.

  Golf

- Amber lenses help golfers with their putting by improving their perception of the contrast on the green.

Golfers need lenses to enhance vision so they can read the green and contrast the ball against the green and the sky. Copper-coloured lenses are excellent and they improve the depth of perception. It also accentuates blue  so the sky and grass are muted against the ball.

  Mountainbiking

-High contrast filters and impact resistant lenses.

  Running

Red tinted lenses give runners enhanced natural colour perception and detail recognition

  Sailing 

  Polarised lenses

  Shooting

- Hunting yellow or amber light up the viewing area. For target or skeet shooting the colour choice is extensive : orange will enhance a clay target but brown remains the best all round choice in bright light.

  Snorkeling/Diving

  Snow Sports

The popularity of snow sports has resulted in a large selection of lens choices. Both sky and snow produce blue light. Short wave blue light scatters and reduces the precision of distance vision. It works successfully in bright sun, flat light and haze. Reflected glare is also a problem on snow. Polarised lenses are good - but avoid the darkest tint. Mirror coatings are effective because they limit glare. The denser the mirror, the more light it absorbs.

 Colours to wear: Snows surface Brown,Copper, Amber

Overcast days: Orange and Red.

Oakley Jawbreaker 9290 21 Prizm Sapphire Snow  £ 119

                                  Oakley Radar Ev Path 9208 47 Prizm Sapphire Snow £ 109

   Swimming

Prescription swim goggles are available.

  Watersports

light reflecting off the waters surface makes polarised lenses better for water sports.

 SPORTS PROTECTION

For Football, Basketball, Tennis, Badminton and Squash.

Progear

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The active eyewear range that fits you wherever your day takes you

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With Progear's new line of active eyewear, you can look as stylish at the gym as you do at work without ever changing your eyewear. Perfect for nearly all types of casual, non-contact sports, the Progear Optical Collection offers casual styling suitable for both work and play. Enjoy the convenience of leaving work and heading straight for tennis, jogging, yoga, cycling, or any other mobile activity. No matter what you're engaged in, moving from work-to-play from play-to-work has never looked better.

1. adjustable headband
2. sides anti-slip, hyperallergenic rubber
3. hinge precision moulded to ensure constant tension
4. 3D ball-joint nose pads to fit any shape
5. earphone cable holders
   

   
   

    

   
   

   
   

   
   

   Polarising Lenses

   100% glare proof, these lenses channel light in just one direction, rather than many directions as the suns rays bounce off flat surfaces such as water and snow.