Snowboarding Eye Protection

Video Transcript

"Next stop what we're going to talk about of your outerwear is one of the most important things. It's eye protection. There's two ways you can do it. You can either have goggles, which most people wear because they're going to help protect wind against getting in your eyes. And if you wear contacts or glasses, this is your best bet. Most people will wear goggles. Alls you do, basically, is just put them over your eyes and the darker the lens is how you want to wear it, if it's really, really sunny. If it's really, really cloudy, you want to wear what's called "flat light lenses." They usually run in the colors of blue, yellow, red, things of that nature. On top of snow goggles, another safe bet to protect your eyes is sunglasses. What you want to do for sunglasses is find one that says "polarized." It's going to protect your eyes from those high UV rays, the best possible. Me, personally, I would prefer goggles. What it does, it's going to protect your eyes from as much wind as possible. So, for goggles, there's different type of lenses. For bright, sunny days, you want to have a mirrored lens, like you see here. What it does, it's going to bounce the sunlight off of it, so little UV light gets into your eyes. If it's a really cloudy day, you want to have blue, yellow, red, or light lenses. What those are, they're called "flat light lenses." What it does is able to see your terrain a little bit better. If you have a mirror lens, and it's really, really cloudy, you're not going to be able to see as well. So, a flat light lens-flat light days, you're going to want a blue, red, or yellow for those bumps, for those obstacles that are going to be in your way."