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Blue Soft Boxing Sparring Helmet Protective Head Gear | ![]() |
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Adult Red Faux Leather Fighting Helmet Boxing Matches Headgear | ![]() |
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US $24.99 | 3h 22m |
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New Large Heavy Duty Red Boxing Head Guard - Fight Gear | ![]() |
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NEW 14OZ SETS 2 HEADGEAR 2 BOXING PUNCHING GLOVES PAIR | ![]() |
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NEW FIGHTING HEADGEAR BOXING MATCHES PROTECTION | ![]() |
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20oz - 2 Red & Black Boxing Sets: 2 Headgear & 2 Gloves | ![]() |
0 Bid | US $18.33 | 5h 29m |
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New Fighting Headgear Boxing Matches Head Protection | ![]() |
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Heavy Duty Black Boxing Head Guard w Cage - Fight Gear | ![]() |
0 Bid | US $16.67 | 5h 29m |
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Heavy Duty Red Boxing Head Guard w Cage - Fight Gear | ![]() |
0 Bid | US $16.67 | 5h 29m |
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Adult Kickboxing PVC Coated Foam Inner Red Taekwondo Headgear | ![]() |
0 Bid | US $25.21 | 5h 48m |
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New Boxing Headgear Set: 1 Red + 1 Black - Boxer Protection | ![]() |
0 Bid | US $9.99 | 5h 48m |
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New 2 Pairs Pro Boxing Gloves & Pro Head Gears Heavy Duty Boxing Punching Gear | ![]() |
0 Bid | US $49.99 | 6h 24m |
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New 12oz Sets 2 Headgear 2 Pair Boxing Punching Gloves | ![]() |
0 Bid | US $20.99 | 7h 49m |
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Everlast Boxing Protective DURAHIDE HEAD GEAR (RED) Youth Size | ![]() |
0 Bid | US $29.00 | 8h 39m |
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Boxing Head Guard Kick Boxing Protection Helmet Head Gear Red Medium | ![]() |
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US $27.49 | 12h 50m |
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US $27.49 | 12h 50m |
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whats the best wrestling head gear?
hi! i'm kinda new to wrestling and i dont know what head gear is great for anybody. advanced or beginnner. it has to be light and not too bulky so when someone has their arm around your head you can get out. please tell me what you think the best head gear to get is and please tell me where i can get them...
thanks!
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Blue Soft Boxing Sparring Helmet Protective Head Gear | ![]() |
0 Bid | US $24.03 | 1h 21m |
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Adult Red Faux Leather Fighting Helmet Boxing Matches Headgear | ![]() |
0 Bid | US $23.43 | 2h 14m |
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TKO Technical Knockout Boxing Head Gear L/XL | ![]() |
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US $24.99 | 3h 22m |
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New Large Heavy Duty Red Boxing Head Guard - Fight Gear | ![]() |
0 Bid | US $10.00 | 3h 49m |
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NEW 14OZ SETS 2 HEADGEAR 2 BOXING PUNCHING GLOVES PAIR | ![]() |
0 Bid | US $17.50 | 5h 29m |
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NEW FIGHTING HEADGEAR BOXING MATCHES PROTECTION | ![]() |
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20oz - 2 Red & Black Boxing Sets: 2 Headgear & 2 Gloves | ![]() |
0 Bid | US $18.33 | 5h 29m |
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New Fighting Headgear Boxing Matches Head Protection | ![]() |
0 Bid | US $5.00 | 5h 29m |
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Heavy Duty Black Boxing Head Guard w Cage - Fight Gear | ![]() |
0 Bid | US $16.67 | 5h 29m |
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0 Bid | US $16.67 | 5h 29m |
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Adult Kickboxing PVC Coated Foam Inner Red Taekwondo Headgear | ![]() |
0 Bid | US $25.21 | 5h 48m |
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New Boxing Headgear Set: 1 Red + 1 Black - Boxer Protection | ![]() |
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New 2 Pairs Pro Boxing Gloves & Pro Head Gears Heavy Duty Boxing Punching Gear | ![]() |
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New 12oz Sets 2 Headgear 2 Pair Boxing Punching Gloves | ![]() |
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Everlast Boxing Protective DURAHIDE HEAD GEAR (RED) Youth Size | ![]() |
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0 Bid | US $29.00 | 8h 39m |
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USED top ten competition headgear head guard helmet Sparring Gear Summer Sale | ![]() |
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Boxing Head Guard Kick Boxing Protection Helmet Head Gear Red Medium | ![]() |
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US $27.49 | 12h 50m |
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US $27.49 | 12h 50m |
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US $31.89 | 12h 50m |
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US $31.89 | 12h 50m |
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US $31.89 | 12h 50m |
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US $31.89 | 12h 51m |
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US $29.79 | 12h 52m |
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US $29.79 | 12h 52m |
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US $29.79 | 12h 52m |
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US $50.00 | 1d 5h 51m |
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US $399.99 | 10h 32m |
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US $45.96 | 28d 21h 4m |
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Beavis and Butt-Head (Sega Game Gear) with Plastic case | ![]() |
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US $14.00 | 29d 2h 20m |
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US $12.95 | 24d 2h 9m |
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Saint Seiya Sanctuary Battle Exclusive Limited T shirt - Head Gear PS3 Size L | ![]() |
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US $28.42 | 18d 5h 49m |
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HEAD BUSTER Game Gear SEGA Import JAPAN Video Game bcb gg | ![]() |
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US $24.92 | 15d 15h 10m |
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US $16.99 | 10d 7h 39m |
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Gear Head ROC-ELE -ANIMAL ROCKER - BLUE ELEPHANT - Kit | ![]() |
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US $50.56 | 12d 22m |
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US $2.99 | 3d 15h 17m |
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US $20.00 | 4d 10h 56m |
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Saint Seiya: Sanctuary Battle PS3 HeadGear Limited Edition - Collector Head Gear | ![]() |
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US $399.99 | 13h 45m |
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Metal Gear Solid Play Arts Red Cyborg Ninja (Variant Colour with exclusive head) | ![]() |
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US $135.00 | 1d 16h 56m |
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US $27.70 | 19d 11h 53m |
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Boxed Mug - Top Gear - Stig Head - Great TV Gift | ![]() |
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US $7.88 | 2d 26m |
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US $6.32 | 21d 6h 37m |
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Jessica Alba fantastic New Sexy 10x8 Photo Headgear | ![]() |
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US $4.72 | 26d 9h 33m |
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US $10.66 | 16d 20h 16m |
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4 Replacement Gaskets compatible with Original Magic Bullet
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DescriptionThis quality rubber gaskets are great replacements if your gaskets break on your blades for the Magic Bullet |
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New Metro Design Beater Blade for 5-Quart KitchenAid Tilt-Head Mixers, White Grey Blades
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New Metro Design Beater Blade for 5-Quart KitchenAid Bowl Lift Mixers |
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The Police: Certifiable - Live In Buenos Aires (2-DVD 2-CD Set)
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Come Clean
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Intex River Run I
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DescriptionOur heavy duty float made for an individual adventure! All the fun of the double but in single style with a mesh bottom to keep you cool, cup holders, two heavy duty handles and a grab rope for those rough waters! |
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Spy Net: Spy Strike Laser Dueling System
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Planet Bike Beamer 1 and Blinky 3 LED Bicycle Light Set
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DescriptionOffering long runtimes and exceptionally bright LED light, the Beamer 1 Light Set from Planet Bike is a great choice for daily riders, commuters, and pleasure riders alike. The Beamer 1 headlight provides four times brighter light than prior models with an eXtreme V2... |
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Professional Headphone with Mic for XBOX 360
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DescriptionThis headset will make your gaming experience more engaging by allowing you to strategize with teammates or use the friend chat while playing your favorite XBOX 360 games. The headset provides the capability of adjusting the volume, with a frequency range of 20-20,000 Hz and a sensibility of 54 dB... |
Head Gear
Will wearing any black head gear give away your position when duck hunting?
Got in an argument on what should be worn when duck hunting and I think I've seen plenty of people wear black hat's or beanies while duck hunting...I didn't think it would matter.
Ducks have very good eye sight for movement and detail. So if you are wearing a black hat with a background of snow they will see it.
I am just now getting back to duck hunting. But years ago I was out every weekend duck hunting. My brother and I tried experiments to see what would spook ducks. We found they can see your eyes while they are flying by at 60+ yards and any sudden movement as well. We never wore camouflage in the old days, just earth colors. And we shot our limit many times wearing blue jeans, blue or black ball cap and a green or brown shirt. However we stayed low in the blind and as they set their wings to land we avoided eye contact with them.
So I don’t think a black hat of any kind would spook them if you stay still. Think of it this way; you’re looking down for danger, what’s that black thing moving around? Most predators are brown, tan and black, a natural camouflage.
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September 11th, 2010 at 3:55 pm
September 17th, 2010 at 1:15 am
Come on, eat yer breakfast!
November 27th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
I knew I would think of more old technologies I have a fondness for.Old-fashioned wet shaving. By which I mean dad’s double-edge razor (literally in my case: one of my two was my father’s, the other my father-in-law’s), complete with brush and shaving soap in a mug. I am very intermittently trying to master the straight razor, with little success so far.The Zippo lighter. Changed only in details since it first appeared in the 30s. Simple, reliable, rugged, easy to maintain. Still made in Bradford, Pennsylvania (Zippo now also owns the company, in the same town, that makes Case knives — another fine example of old technology), and has a real, no-weasel-words, lifetime guarantee. If you find a battered old Zippo at a garage sale that your neighbor found in her grandpa’s tackle box twenty years after he died, put in a new flint and fill it with lighter fluid and it will probably fire right up. If it doesn’t, send it to Zippo and you’ll get it back good as new, for the princely sum of … postage.Actually, the whole shadowy, semi-criminalized world of pipe smoking is kind of atavistic and gadgety. The pipe itself is a gadget, really. And then we’ve got our pipe cleaners, tampers, reamers, scrapers, three-in-one pipe tools, wind caps and God knows what all.What is it that draws some of us to these old technologies? I don’t think you can say we’re complete Luddites. I mean, here we are commenting on a blog and all. If I were to ask some guy like me, a pipe smoker with a bunch of Zippos in a drawer, I’d probably find there was some kind of high technology in his life: a computer, a cell phone, maybe even an iPod. But I’ll bet I’d also find he was into some other things that seem odd in the modern world — Hemingway-era fishing gear, old Triumph motorcycles, player pianos, something. Probably several somethings.I think part of it may not be the technology so much as our relationship with technology. Something interesting I found out about the Amish after we visited their settlement at Arthur, Illinois some years ago: they’re not really anti-technology, not in a simplistic sense. A man might have a battery-operated shaver, for example; some communities have locally-generated electricity; and a settlement will often have a centrally located telephone specifically to call for help in an emergency. Rather they are careful about technology and evaluate it on different terms than most of us are accustomed to. If the community is considering adopting something new, the question goes to deacons, ministers, and bishops to consider how the technology would affect community life and the principle of separation from the outside world.Here are some things I look for, find value in, and am more likely to find with old than with new technologies:A connection with the senses. At the psychic level this might be the greatest loss that comes with electronically mediated devices. We aren’t evolved to stare at screens or listen to digitally-reproduced music while clicking keys or pressing tiny buttons on a white plastic box. We are evolved to grip rough sticks and rocks in our hands, to exert strength, to flick bugs off leaves, to smell the earth, the foliage, and our not-overwashed selves while working, to feel the hot sun or cool shade on our backs and the roots and tussocks under our feet, to taste cool water, berries, and our own sweat, to hear the wind, thunder eight miles off, the chattering and singing of a dozen kinds of birds, our own heavy breathing, the complaints or songs of our companions. The physicality of a fountain pen, a typewriter, a book, a bicycle ride is of a different order than that of a word processor or Kindle or even a drive in the family car. A book or a hammer has heft, a certain way it feels (different from the book we read last week or our neighbor’s hammer), a smell.A sense of direct control, and the pleasure of using skill. Sure, I’m controlling this computer I’m typing on. But I have no idea, or only the vaguest, what’s going on inside the box that links these movements on the keyboard to the letters I’m seeing on the screen. I couldn’t see the electrons bopping back and forth even if I opened the CPU. And if something goes kablooey, what am I going to do? Get my multitool out of my briefcase and reconnect the glammis to the furnistat? No, I’ll call one of the IT guys, who will stare at lines of code and either rewrite the code or tell me a board has to be replaced — not repaired — pulled out, sent (one hopes) to be recycled, and replaced with a new one. If the chain slips off the derailleur while I’m riding my bike, I can see what’s happened. I can probably get it back on, secure enough to limp home. Once home, I can either read a book and figure out what went wrong and how to fix it, or I can take it to the bike shop, and if the bike wizard lets me look over his or her shoulder I can see how it’s done. Guaranteed, even if sweating and cussing are involved, it’s a lot more fun than swapping out a board.Solidity, quality, repairability, sustainability. I think this may be hardwired into us too. I mean, field observations of chimps indicate that primates have been using disposable tools for millions of years, but on the other hand my twenty-times-great-grandmother didn’t want to go out into the field with a flimsy digging tool that would break off in her hand, and if my forty-times-great-grandfather set off down the river to trade, he sure wanted a boat he could fix if it started taking water. There is something, I think, cheapening to the soul in using things that are kinda flimsy, kinda shoddily made, just good enough to do the job over a fairly short life span — and then when they break, designed to just be thrown away, because they aren’t sturdy enough to take a repair, and they aren’t put together so you can take them apart and refasten them anyway, and when one crappy component snaps you can figure a half-dozen other crappy components are ready to go, and anyone with any love of craft would feel a sour taste in their mouth trying to work on such stuff to begin with. Cheapening and ecologically irresponsible, I might add. We are trapped by modern life into dealing with tons of such stuff, but it’s right and healthy to look for alternatives when we can. It is better for the world and better for the soul to work with things that feel good, that work well, that last and can be fixed.I’m reminded of Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and the elusive but essential notion of Quality that obsessed his alter ego Phaedrus. How Phaedrus must hate our time, if in some way he still lives! — days drained even sparser of Quality than his own days of youth and madness. by R.A. Stewart June 22, 2010 at 6:45 pm edit comment
December 28th, 2010 at 9:48 pm
28 isn't old. I will say this, though. If you are focused on fashion that is aimed at young people, you'll not only start to look kind of silly/odd in a few years, but you'll be disappointed. Why do you want to look like a teenager?
I would never want to be a teenager again.