Sentences with phrase «more headgear»

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Months before the Florida High School Athletic Association voted in late September to mandate soft headgear for girls lacrosse for the 2015 season, Stenersen told MomsTEAM that he believed it would be «highly irresponsible» for high school associations and youth leagues to focus solely on requiring increased protective equipment if it meant ignoring what Stenersen viewed as «the most critical component to a safer, more enjoyable lacrosse experience: requiring nationally - standardized, sport - specific training for coaches and officials as a fundamental qualification to assure that the boys» and girls» lacrosse is being taught (and the rules are being enforced) correctly.»

As a former college lacrosse and high school field hockey player, and a member of ASTM International's subcommittee on standards for headgear and helmets, which is working with US Lacrosse on developing a new standard for headgear in women's lacrosse, I have reservations about whether requiring female lacrosse players to wear helmets will make the sports safer, or, as a result of the phenomenon called risk compensation (also called the «gladiator effect»), will actually result in more, rather than fewer, head injuries.

Suffice it to say, the new mandate hasn't made anybody happy and has garnered plenty of vocal detractors (and rightly so), from US Lacrosse, the sport's national governing body (which, among other things, called the mandate «irresponsible» and premature), to coaches (who don't see the flimsy headband approved by FHSAA — what one longtime game official told The Times looked «more like a thick bandana» — as serving any purpose and no more than a «costly distraction to parents and the players»), to game officials (one told The Times that the only effect the headgear was having on the game was to cause delays because the headbands were prone to falling off) to the athletes themselves, who say all it does is get in the way of their goggles.

The new standard is likely more a function of the fact that, without an established standard in place to regulate the headgear that has come on to the market in recent years (none of which, according to US Lacrosse, has been developed based on scientific testing, and none of which the organization has endorsed), consumers are essentially «buying a pig in a poke»: in other words, without a clue as to whether the product they are buying has any safety value at all.

According to an article published by Dr. Sears, more often than not, breastfed babies have better jaw alignment, reducing the need for things like braces or headgear later in life.

When it comes to protection, headgear and padded gloves can actually make things MORE dangerous for an MMA fighter, according to UFC commentator Joe Rogan.

Jack loses much more than headgear at work that day, undoing years of personal success with a bad options trade that wipes out the entirety of his blue collar family's life savings.

The opening credit sequence, which unfolds as a series of smooth pans and tilts across extreme close - ups of baroque, CG - kissed headgear and flower - enmeshed skulls, soon gives way to ratty old videotape of the designer in his pre-Givenchy days, punning on «haute couture» and looking more like a hired hand than like one of the most influential designers of the late twentieth century.

While Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara's The White Helmets won the 2017 Oscar for Best Documentary Short, Feras Fayyad's Last Men in Aleppo proves there's still much more to say about the Syrian rescue volunteers named for their white protective headgear.

Which is where I now switch hats and replace the bohemian beret of the writer with a more conservative form of headgear: the editor's fedora, if you like.

The intricate stonework in Midna's headgear is more defined.

Last but not least, there's also this patent application for a «tactile glove» which lets you literally rub two fingers together to steer a pair of robots while using the headgear, which could more generally be a way to let you interact with the things Magic Leap lets you see.

Moving onto more traditional gaming headgear, the new XP400 is a 5.1 virtual surround sound Xbox and PS3 headset that comes with most of the bells and whistles you would expect.

More details on both the handset and VR headgear will be revealed (including pricing) closer to launch.

As a standalone VR headset, it does not require to be tethered to a computer or a smartphone as the headgear is built to work more like an all - in - one VR tool that offers direct access to VR content through the Oculus ecosystem sans any additional hardware, though it comes with a physical controller.