Wrestling Headgear 101: Protect Your Ears
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- čas přidán 31. 07. 2024
- If you wrestle or participate in any grappling sports, headgear is one piece of protective gear that we highly recommend. It is required for all scholastic competition, including junior high, high school, and collegiate wrestling. Most Youth wrestling leagues require it as well. The question is, aside from looking really silly at times and being required by schools, what does this thing actually do?
Although it is technically worn on the head, headgear’s main job is to protect your ears in order to prevent ear injuries. While there are some new technologies beginning to emerge for head protection, the current models are not intended to prevent head injuries such as concussions. For this reason, there are other more accurate names for them like “ear guards” or “ear protectors.”
Ears are weird anyway, so why should you care about them? Good question. In wrestling, your head is constantly being used as a weapon, a line of defense, and a target. During this time, your ears are highly exposed and will take a beating if you don’t protect them. The repeated beating, folding, and crunching of the ears can cause a hematoma in the ear.
This injury is commonly referred to as “Cauliflower Ear.” Basically, your ear fills up with blood and has nowhere to go because your ears have terrible circulation. Unless you get it drained by a healthcare professional, that pocket of blood that was once your ear will harden and become permanently deformed. Cauliflower is painful and can be super annoying to deal with, especially if it happens right in the middle of the season.
There are a handful of variations of the different styles of headgear. You’ll see the ‘classic’ style, which has the hard plastic inner shell, foam outer, and vinyl straps. The great thing about these is they are super durable and stay set very firmly once adjusted. Their downside is that they tend to be harder to hear out of and can be difficult to adjust. The other major style consists of Velcro straps, a hard but flexible outer shell, and super soft over-ear padding. In comparison, these are much easier to adjust and hear out of.
Bottom line, even though you may think cauliflower ear looks cool or gnarly or tough, we recommend doing what you can to avoid this inconvenience. We have a wide selection of styles, colors, and brands, and have a staff full of experienced wrestlers here to help you find the right one. If you have any questions at all, please give us a call at 1-888-887-8893.
My brothers headgear came off during a match. Ended up with cauliflower ear. As an 8 year old I watched my brother get his ears drained. When I hit high school and was wrestling I made sure my headgear was tight with no chance of it coming off. Never got cauliflower ear thank goodness. 1998 my bro won state. 10 years later I did the same. Wrestling is a way of life in my family!
Awesome story! Cauliflower Ear looks cool, but it sure doesn't feel cool.
The ref should let you put back on the gear
Ayy lets get it bro
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imagine not being able to wear headphones cause of cauliflower ear
u mean ear phones
O my god I didnt realize that
Dramatic irony
My worst nightmare
Never knew this was a problem with cauliflower ears
Talking about ears. Listen to this with headphones and you'll notice that your left ear can't hear his voice.
the left ear can hear it, but really muffled. great example of what he means by hearing deterioration
I had no idea about the the permanent hearing loss
Thanks for the video!
U dont loose ur hearing, it just damages a little
My coach can't hear from his left ear because he never protect it.
Nice video.
Our ear is a fragile instrument any impact or noise frequency trauma will damage the fragile inner ear which consist of three bone which moves when the eardrum is vibrating. But with the air pressure of impact of a hit or blow to the ear is enough to cause hearing damage plus the “mashing and crushing” movements that it gets whist wrestling with give the outer ear the “classic cauliflower ear”. That’s why one needs a ear guards whist fighting.
thanks for the info!
I hated wearing headgear, summer was the best when I could leave it in the gym bag. The cauliflower ear life is the life for me.
Nasty habit you got there.
Iam greco-roman wrestler and none of us uses headgear and none of us have cauliflower ears only few of our trainers have but almost all of them participated in olympics.
In greco roman you dont often use your head or get your head in positions where you either have to damage your ears to yank it out because of a choke (like in BJJ) or get pummeled often (like in folk- and freestyle). Shooting a dubble leg is already bad for your ears because of you using the side of your head to rub your opponents torso for grip. In greco roman these positions are either illegal or just dont show up very often
Freestyle Wrestling is pretty different man!
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Just had to get some after a small bit of cauli in my ear snapped and filled up the rest of my ear. Totally worth getting head gear. Cauliflower ear looks cool but it's annoying
It oughta be call a ear gear instead of a headgear😀
I had to wear a face mask when I broke my Cheek bone and I looked so dumb😂
What about a hair cap for girls im really tryibg to find a video of that....and yes i got a concussion because of my hair in my face
lol wut
how many headgears you have. in my city there is no headgear to buy no singlets to buy no wrestling shoes.if we buy online that becomes very costly. we do wrestling without any facility and every time we hurt our self. but still we are wrestlers. we love to fight.we loves fear in our opponents eyes and in the end we love to hunt the opponents because we are hungry lions.
Bro, calm down. It's wrestling, not the Trojan war...
@@miked9653 thats what wrestling is about, being a fighter
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Can you wear a scrum helmet?
Does it start with your ear being purple and puffy
Yes swelling and bruises.
this guy talks about ear guards but he has a worst cauliflower ear
It looks like you have cauliflower ear
so does it prevent it completely?
Yes, if you wear the headgear you won’t get cauliflower ear
Yeah the impact goes to the headgear instead of your ear.
A real mans headgear are his cauliflower ears.
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