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Crispy-Critter
I swim for health and exercise for two hours a day, three days a week, and I have been doing it for years. As a consequence of this, I have gone through a lot of different swim goggles. There are three top rated brands: Aqua Sphere Kaiman, Aqua Sphere Kayenne, and Speedo Vanquisher 2.0. You really can't go wrong if you buy any one of them. You should know however, that all of them will only last for about a year before they give out. Oil is the enemy of rubber and plastic, whether it is the oil on your face or the oil on hoses and belts under the hood of your car. You are only going to get so many miles (or laps) out of them before the plastic becomes a crispy-critter and starts to leak. For those of you who have a really weird shaped face, these three goggles are the ones that will most likely fit you. If you are having trouble making any goggle seal to your face, try this. Take some water from the pool and wash the area on your face where the goggle will go, and remove all the loose, dandruff, hair, and skin that tends to collect there. After you have the goggle and strap properly adjusted on your head, then with both hands pull the goggle straight forward off your face an inch or so, make certain you have it properly centred, and then let it snap back into place. The snapping back helps to set the goggles squarely on your face and it also gives them a good seal. I rate these 5 star. I put this review here because if you are like me, you always read the 1 star ratings to see where any possible problems may lie before you buy something. In truth, these goggles do everything wrong the people who give them one star ratings say they do. They will leak (eventually). Sometimes you have trouble properly centring these, or any goggle, on your face, And they do fog-up. But then every goggle does all these things. Some brands have an anti-fog coating on them but that only lasts a few weeks. You do have to buy an anti-fog spray to use on any goggle you wear. Actually these goggle will work just find so buy them already. Note: Some people do get optical distortions with this brand. That is a production problem. If it happens for you send them back right away.
March 2015 · Sports and Outdoors · verified purchase