First review on Sherdog (originally posted on Fighter's Home review blog). Feedback for the review and comments on your experiences of the product would be appreciated - I'm new to this stuff 
Next time will try to add more photos!
DO YOU REALLY NEED AN EAR GUARD?
An ear guard is the kind of thing you don’t realise you need until it’s too late. In that way it’s much like a groin guard: you probably didn’t consider buying one until your first BJJ arm-barring lesson where you naively tried to break a guys arm over your balls. Or, if you began with stand up: perhaps it was worse than that, perhaps it was the first time you ended up forehead pressed into the mat, taking deep breaths after your first miss-placed inside leg kick to the family jewels? Either way, it was a state of discomfort that prompted you to buy a groin guard and, similarly, it is likely that you will not consider purchasing an ear guard until you’re wincing in pain as your cauliflower-ed ears are being crushed in a triangle by a training partner or your girlfriend is telling you she’s leaving your ass if they get any worse.
In the early years, my ears held up pretty well. I think it wasn’t until about 18 months into training that I got that first cauliflower ear. I was rolling with my coach and towards the end of the round I felt a little bit of pain in my ear, as though I’d bruised or pinched it or something. After the timer went off I headed to the mirror and there it was: a grape sized lump on the top of my ear. The gross thing about cauliflower ears for me is how when you squeeze them you can feel the blood and puss moving around inside the thing… Anyway, even worse than their gruesome texture and detrimental effects to your good-looks is that they really, really, really hurt if you want to roll when they aren’t healed. Even worse, you can take a week off training, watch them go down, come back to training and have them swell up again.
When it came to buying an ear guard, I’d say stay away from the cheap ones. If you are in the UK you will find that Amazon and most of your favourite MMA stores are loaded with the
Next time will try to add more photos!DO YOU REALLY NEED AN EAR GUARD?
An ear guard is the kind of thing you don’t realise you need until it’s too late. In that way it’s much like a groin guard: you probably didn’t consider buying one until your first BJJ arm-barring lesson where you naively tried to break a guys arm over your balls. Or, if you began with stand up: perhaps it was worse than that, perhaps it was the first time you ended up forehead pressed into the mat, taking deep breaths after your first miss-placed inside leg kick to the family jewels? Either way, it was a state of discomfort that prompted you to buy a groin guard and, similarly, it is likely that you will not consider purchasing an ear guard until you’re wincing in pain as your cauliflower-ed ears are being crushed in a triangle by a training partner or your girlfriend is telling you she’s leaving your ass if they get any worse.
In the early years, my ears held up pretty well. I think it wasn’t until about 18 months into training that I got that first cauliflower ear. I was rolling with my coach and towards the end of the round I felt a little bit of pain in my ear, as though I’d bruised or pinched it or something. After the timer went off I headed to the mirror and there it was: a grape sized lump on the top of my ear. The gross thing about cauliflower ears for me is how when you squeeze them you can feel the blood and puss moving around inside the thing… Anyway, even worse than their gruesome texture and detrimental effects to your good-looks is that they really, really, really hurt if you want to roll when they aren’t healed. Even worse, you can take a week off training, watch them go down, come back to training and have them swell up again.
When it came to buying an ear guard, I’d say stay away from the cheap ones. If you are in the UK you will find that Amazon and most of your favourite MMA stores are loaded with the
