Don't do it.
I guess it all depends on your own risk assessment. I had an altercation with the side of a car in the mid-eighties. I was wearing a full-face "Achilles", big heavy fibreglass thing. The impact removed a 10cm piece of the chinguard, and still fractured my jaw, although I didn't realise it until I tried to eat a piece of toast!
My jaw is still visibly out of kilter to this day, although luckily for myself and the local female population, I continue to grow more handsome by the day. I reflect from time to time on how I would look without my mandible - a "chinless wonder"?
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How much does a man live, after all?
Does he live a thousand days, or one only?
For a week, or several centuries?
How long does a man spend dying?
What does it mean to say “forever”? - Pablo Neruda
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