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I was in a lot of sports but I never felt the need to wear a cup. I've never worn one, but I imagine they are uncomfortable. So I wouldn't wear one unless I felt there was a good reason to. I wore a jock strap in wrestling. I can't remember if I wore one in any other sports.
A guy's nuts are not as vulnerable as you may think. In most sports there is no significant risk.
The pain from getting hit in the nuts is more of a sharp shocking pain, kinda like hitting your funny bone but worse. Normally it's not a long lasting pain. Guys react strongly because of the shock. It's possible for it to be a serious injury. But the vast majority of the times it's a relatively short lasting pain with no real injury.
Also, the groin is not the nuts. Men and women both have groins.
Cups tend to protect more for direct hits from the front. Works well for things like a baseball or hockey puck flying at you. Things like soccer or basketball where the issue is more a potential knee or something coming from below it's not as helpful. There are special ones for hockey goalies that protect more from below but they would t be comfortable while running around like in soccer.
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It depends on the sport. When I played baseball, I never wore a cup, unless I was filling in as a catcher, which I seldom did. I was fast enough, and had reflexes good enough, that I was never hit in the balls. That was after a number of years of playing baseball. When it comes to racquetball, etc., wearing a cup would be a hinderance, and the ball would not hurt as much as in baseball. Even with racquetball, having played many hundreds of games, I was only lightly hit in the balls once, and it didn't hurt nearly enough to warrant wearing an uncomfortable cup.
Depends what kind of sport. I've only done soccer and krav maga.
In soccer we only trained with he boys until the age of 12, so I don't know what happened after that, but until then they didn't wear cups. Sometimes a boy would get hit there, it happens, but they move on.
In krav maga things were very different. Guys almost always wore cups, and when they didn't, if they come to regret it, they really regretted it. I had a friend who had the habit of aiming there intentionally if he knew a guy didn't wear one. I thought it was just mean, and I told him that when he forgets his cup they will take revenge, but he said he would never forget the cup, and he never did.
Cups can be uncomfortable and restrictive, which may affect how someone performs. I guess wearing one should be optional and up to the guy really. I have done a form of kickboxing for years and cups have always been optional, but I find they affect my movement, my stance and my kicking technique, so I stopped wearing them a long time ago. Guys have a ‘code’ so they don’t go there anyway. Girls don’t have that ‘code’, so the risk of being kicked there is far greater when sparring with girls. But guys have many natural physical advantages over girls, so wearing a cup when sparring with a girl feels a little cowardly. Mostly though I won’t compromise my own performance by wearing something so restrictive. I guess each guy should be able to choose for themselves whether to wear one.
Depends on the sport, and the type of practice it is. I never wore a cup when I played: soccer, basketball, or football. However, I ALWAYS wore a cup whenever I practiced or played hockey. Baseball I wore one when required. I never played catcher so I didn't feel it was necessary.
When I was playing baseball in school (3rd base) I wore a hard cup. I was a good fielder, but not Golden Glove, and a missed line drive could prove painful. My playing days are long over. These days, a pair of jockey shorts worn on the golf course or at the shooting range is does the job.
It depends on the sport, but I would certainly wear one if I was doing something like hockey or baseball where you have some object traveling at you at super high speeds.
For something like martial arts, I would be more inclined to wear one if I was training against another guy. If I was going against a woman, I would only wear it if I was pretty sure she wouldn't know I was wearing a cup. Otherwise I would go with no cup.
Depends on the sport.. for something like swimming or running, ofc not, for football or something that is attacking someone else and involves force against another person, if you want to, probs
They say it's uncomfortable.
The ones who do get their 'bells rung' hard, do wear one from that point on. Why do they have to learn the hard way individually and not as a group? I have no idea...
If it is during practice they probably do not need it. During a game the cup should be present.
For me personally, it's because it's uncomfortable to wear a cup, and also I feel embarrassed to wear a cup with women around. I don't know how to explain, but it's like telling to women that my manhood needs extra protection.
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They are not always comfortable to wear.
I think it totally depends on the sports, some sports the are required while others not really needed.
When I played baseball I always wore a cup, but never wore one for Tennis or basketball.
I do martial arts now and mostly wear cups but sometimes the girls in class give me a hard time about it.
I did in baseball. We all did.
Generally no need, except for a catcher
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