wearing cups?

[Paul Surridge]

I'm sure there are lots of tournaments that don't allow cup . I'm only speaking from MY experience. I'd like to see a percentage of tournaments that allow cups versus don't. Again its not only about injury prevention

[Tim Mohatt]

My testicles are important to me; I'd rather protect them.

This.

[DocDan84]

I wear one. I don't care what anyone else says about it, I'm looking out for mine (literally). I use to wrestle without a cup, and looking back I'm amazed I didn't accidentally hurt my nuts multiple times.

[Troy Yang]

i train gi and nogi and the cup is always a must... when you get a knee downward on your nuts you will yell...cup why have i forsaken u..

[JorgenBore]

I remember one of Rogan's podcasts where he's talking about one special cup that goes up your butt like a g-string. He really liked that cup because it prevents the problem of your nuts getting a little bit out of the cup and then getting crushed by the edge.

Anyone know what kind of cup that was?

That sounds like a Thai Steel Cup, they use for muay thai fights.

[Brent Smith]

What % of 10th planet guys wear cups? Thoughts on them? Looking at reddit's JJ threads about them, most gi guys don't wear them, but a higher % of nogi guys do.

No cup. I'll rock either the mouth guard or a stick of gum.

4 children is enough

[John Mejia]

What's a cup? Didn't wear one when I played hockey, still won't wear one today. Dont even get me started with mouthguards. Lol

[Matt Thomas]

Just a mouth guard for me, never have worn a cup. I could definitely see the argument for wearing one though.

[Kevin Reed]

I used to rock a cup every tourney and every practice. Eventually I got sick of rocking the extra layers and extra laundry - needing to wash it after every practice.

So no cup for me.

[Peterm]

You have to wonder how hundreds of thousands of judo players and wrestlers have managed over decades and decades of practice not to have had this surface as a problem and this is in sports where you might think that the risk of impact and damage was higher than in jiu jitsu.

I have never known judo players or wrestlers express a concern about injury and the authorities presumably do not consider that it is a safety issue to be addressed.

I dare say that there is a small risk of injury although I have never seen any but then again I suspect that more testicular injuries arise when riding a bike and I would not think of wearing a cup just in case.