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Originally Posted by RichMSN
You like the low profile mask? Really?
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I have both. I started with the low-profile, because that was the first one available. I got the standard when I had to swap the first one out after it bent.
I now use the standard almost all the time. I use the low-profile when the stuff the kids are throwing isn't over 80 m.p.h.
In a winter scrimmage, I took a straight, uncaught 94 m.p.h. fastball straight in the right eye area of the standard one (a half swing blinded the catcher). The mask landed 15 feet behind and to the right of me.
I can say that the light weight makes for less of a jolt, and the pads on that mask are the best imaginable. Wear it loose, like Tim C. professes---it makes all the difference in the world. That same shot with a heavier mask that stays on, and it's a much different jolt.