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Most facilities prefer goggles that seal against your face to limit tangential shots intruding into the eye.
Dr Airsoft explains why: http://vaughanmd.com/drairsoft/answer2.html (emphasis added)quick copy - [[Dr Airsoft A2]] Notes:
<blockquote>The game of airsoft is safe when played with the proper equipment, and with the right rules and enforcement. That is, if you can accept soft tissue contusions resulting in temporary welts in one's definition of safe. Eye protection is certainly the absolute precaution that cannot be compromised in airsoft. '''The American Society for Testing and Standards (ASTM.org) is currently developing standards for Airsoft which will require a minimum of full-seal goggles consistent with ANSI A87.1 level of protection. Do not compromise on this requirement.''' Many players will experience fogging during play with even expensive goggles. This will not be tolerated by players, and that is why you find them breaking rules about full-seal goggles. Some have taken to using wire mesh products that do not protect with a solid barrier. Neither the ASTM nor myself can endorse such a product because of the inherent risk of fragments of bb's passing through the mesh, even if the mesh is strong enough to prevent intact bb's from passing. That being said, I have never heard of evidence of an injury occuring becuse of this theoretical risk.</blockquote>

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