So, I have this jockstrap that I wear for rapier fighting, complete with “Gentleman’s Protection”, an athletic cup to prevent fast moving narrow bits of metal from performing a surgical strike against my ready reserves (so to speak).
It has occured to me that i have no idea if I’m wearing this thing right (thus far, I’ve avoided any hits to that region). I wear the strap with the cup (the curved kind, I think it’s called a “Banana Cup” with the pointy bit down, where it fits more comfortably between my legs. problem is, this doesn’t seem to quite mesh with the traditional layout for the boys, which has them forming a sort of triangular shape, pointing up. Should I flip the cup around, somehow re-arrange myself to point in the correct direction, or just go with what I’ve been doing?
Professional football players don’t wear a cup because they feel that it slows them down. A cup is for girlie-boys. The ONLY reason that boxers wear them is protect themselves from the desperate losers that they are in the process of knocking out. Baseball catchers wear them only because, well, a fastball is just too fast. Otherwise, they would get rid of them.
Wear the thing any way you want. It can be very effective in preventing a broken nose.
LOL, it would make for some unconventional face protection gear.
Well, I wear it because I’m required to by SCA rules (though nobody has ever done an inspection that I’m aware of, so it’s presumably on the Honor System). Also because taking a rapier thrust to the nuts is NOT a pleasant thought to consider.
The shortstop may wear one but most players do not. There is no reason for an outfielder to wear a cup. A pitcher would absolutely not want the nuisence.
Hockeyn players wear them cause the puck is quite hard and can go very fast…A year or so ago (maybe two) a Blue goalie took a shot in the cup…shattered the cup and ruptred his testicle…OUCH!
In martial arts, I took a kick to the cup that cracked it neatly in two. I didn’t discover it until later when I got home, wondering why it had been so uncomfortably pinchy during class.
Cups come in multiple sizes, don’t choose one too large for your body based on ego I had one that was a bit too large, and gave me a nasty circular bruise surrounding my sensitive nethers.
Recent training materials for marshalls has instructed them to ask (heavy fighters) if they’ve got gender-appropriate protection in place, as opposed to the previous technique which was, for some martials, to knee the fighter in the groin. Yes, women are supposed to wear something; kind of a padded thong front, basically. No, none of them wear it… that I know of…
Back in the olden days of the SCA, there was a fighter who didn’t place his faith in soccer cups and instead wore, inside his armor, a small frying pan… this made its way into a play once in which a lady of ill repute said, “I’m not so good with names but I never forget a frying pan.”
I had one that was a bit too large, and gave me a nasty circular bruise surrounding my sensitive nethers.