I thought I would give these a try, much like a nicotene addict, might decide to become more hardcore and switch from a light cigarette to rolling your own smokes, with Bugle tobacco.
And, to do this right, I bought the pure sweedish goggles, the ones you have to put together. I encourage everyone who is upset or tired of their own more expensive goggles to try these, just to make you appreciate, how good you actually had it. Secondly, after putting them together and wearing them, there’s a good reason, why most Sweedish goggle users, blaze by everyone in swimming pools and open water swims. I am convinced they are immune to pain, and many of them probably have root canals without drugs or numbing medicine.
In putting these together, for the unaqainted Sweedish goggle initiate, the nose piece part is the most difficult to afix correctly.
The company gives you about a 2 inch small piece of cheap yarn, which uncoils. This is to be looped under a small rolling plastic bridge, around the microscopic nose part holes. The small, tiny piece of yarn uncoils, is not strong enough to hold the pressure, and didn’t work for me, and so I ended up using 15 pound fishing line test, to tie the nose piece together. This, by the way, took me a full 2 hours to install, having to tie one double fishing knot after another to keep the nose line from pulling apart. When you are using fishing line to hook this up, and using your best sailor tying knot skills, this ought to tell you, the kind of people you are dealing with, who wear these things. They are people to be truly feared in the water.
The head straps are also “do the best you can with this,” and, if you don’t like it, well, that’s the beauty of using Swedes, so go “find some chicken wire.”
After getting this all set up, I head to the pool, and sure enough, there is great eye socket suction. There is no fog, and there is no leaking, which should come as no surprise, because how could anything get through to the eyes, here, anyway? The price to be paid here is perhaps a migraine headache, but no leaks, trade off for you? These things suck out both of your eyeballs and whole orbital lobe, with perhaps some minute brain particles.
After 50 yards of it, I’d had my fill with Sweedish goggles.
And, for the record, Sweedish is spelled with one “e,” but I’m too lazy to go pick back through and fix the errors.