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Originally Posted by SJUMBA93
With all due respect, I believe that anyone could get a concussion with any mask under the "right" circumstances.
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Originally Posted by Kevin Finnerty
It must be a real p.o.s. mask if you can get a concussion from a 10-year-old.
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All any mask can do is to try to minimize the user's odds of getting injured. No mask will be able to prevent all injuries.
A few years ago many people had denting problems with the +POS zero gravity mask. There was one prominent poster on this forum who used the zero gravity and said that he had taken numerous hard shots while wearing it and had experiences no denting at all. Then one day he got hit and the mask was severely dented. The shot he took wasn't really any different than the others he had taken previously, but it just struck the mask just differently enough to cause a huge dent. The same thing happens with injuries. One can go a long period of time without getting injured, that doesn't necessarily mean the mask is safer, but rather that the user has not yet taken that one unlucky shot yet. I could go buy the $500 HSM from Honig's and go work a 10 year old game and get injured in the first inning. Does that make it a terrible mask? No, as no mask can prevent all injuries.
I believe that the SUL mask is flatter than the Wilson so maybe the Wilson would have deflected the ball differently, but any shot to the head is dangerous and has the potential to cause injury.