Media Charles Oliveira talks about fighting without glasses: "Im 50% blind without them"

[cws80us]

1. Doubt you can fight with contacts because they can easily shift or get popped out, which probably just make things worse.
2. This may explain why he gets hit so easily.

 

[djacobox372]

I wonder if a little bit of nearsightedness may help with focus.. isolating your opponent from the background similar to low DOF in photography.

Also, those that are very nearsighted may have enhanced depth perception at close ranges--using how blurry something is as a depth cue.

 

[TankvsNelmark]

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Whats his mma record?

 

[WingzOfRedemption]

Sean Strickland finally has something in common with a high level fighter like olivera, they are both disabled

 

[javjacob]

Can he not put contacts in?

Wow! Are you serious? Fighting with contacts?

 

[Lawrence]

"No excuses" - Justin Gaethje...

They both have "birth control" glasses

Heh

 

[Jozo Sha]

Lasik is scary, they stick a needle in your eye. It discourages a lot of people from doing it.

Uhmmm, it's not that, at all, not remotely. Try googling the actual process, there, doctor?

 

[Otto!]

Please explain why not. Your comment is very interesting.

I need my glasses for details. Without them I still see people and my surrounding clearly, but I would need to squint to read or make out details on a road sign in the distance.

 

[ElLunico]

Fighting is muscle memory and becomes 2nd nature after hours of repetition in the gym so it doesnt surprise me that bad eyesight doesn't hinder him.

 

[Osiris3657]

Lasik is pretty affordable now. I wanted to do it but I don't qualify (I have kerataconus, which lasik doesn't fix)

 

[Ald0]

I always wonder about this with fighters, playing football in school I had to wear my contacts in order to see anything lol actually considered lasik.

 

[Xoleth]

Good thing to know.
If I'll ever fight him in the streets, I will break his glasses first, so I can have a chance.
Wait, I'm a sherdogger, I'm 6'6, he would probably run away from me.

 

[Lucas1980]

Whats his mma record?

Not sure if he's going into MMA in the future that would be a lot different the just having cloudy vision.

 

[Lucas1980]

Fighting is muscle memory and becomes 2nd nature after hours of repetition in the gym so it surprise me that bad eyesight doesn't hinder him.

I need my glasses for about everything but I never wore them when I wrestled or did Jiu-Jitsu... There's actually a lot of blind wrestlers competing at fairly high levels.

 

[Dirty Frank]

There are other dudes who fight with bad vision. Obviously Bisping’s case is the worst.

Yeah Ping literally fought with 50% vision

 

[Dirty Frank]

I need my glasses for about everything but I never wore them when I wrestled or did Jiu-Jitsu... There's actually a lot of blind wrestlers competing at fairly high levels.

Like actual BLIND wrestlers?

 

[ClosetVitorFan]

Also this is close combat. Almost any other sport would suck to participate in with bad vision. Not martial arts tho

Yep. Exactly this. This is why I could never excel at any other sport regardless of how athletic I was. I had really bad eye sight. Even with glasses. I was great at wrestling tho. I can see close up. Genetic bad eye sight really sucks.

 

[Gamer2k4]

Also this is close combat. Almost any other sport would suck to participate in with bad vision. Not martial arts tho

Yep, and that goes double for a grappling martial art. I did judo for seven or eight years, and at one point I competed against someone who was completely blind. They have special rules like setting the grips to begin a neutral position, but in general, judo is based so much on feeling that you can get away with not being able to see.

 

[JBJ was here]

Was he not eligible for lasik ?

Can he not put contacts in?

Severe dry eyes would take both of those out of the picture. I've personally asked about both.

 

[TITS]

I can speak from experience. I'm -6 on both eyes. Something weird happens in sparring and grappling where you adjust to the conditions. You don't see better, but you're able to work with it. Grappling is fine, long distance is the hardest part.

Contact lenses in a fight are dangerous and could damage your eyes.
Lasik is scary, they stick a needle in your eye. It discourages a lot of people from doing it.

I had Lasik in my left eye 14 years ago. Near-sighted (20/200 vision in my left eye, right eye was barely impaired). After all these years, my vision has barely faded in the eye I had Lasik done, but the with other one I need reading glasses now.

No needles, it's a really quick procedure.