[MadMax]

You're not going to be allowed to wear Oakley ballistic eyewear on pretty much any Pball field. Pball fields require recognized pball eyewear to meet insurance requirements. There are often pballers playing at other segments of a field so sometimes we trade shots between battle areas. Therefore all eye protection must meet stringent pball standards at most pball games.

There is some regulation being written which will probably not allow ballistic eyewear designed for tactical teams. While they meet ANSI impact ratings they do not meet anti tearaway requirements (you need a secure headstrap) and they often allow a 6mm probe to reach the orbital region (eye region). If there are ANY angles which you can touch the orbital area with a pencil (~6mm) without being significantly impeded by eyewear, your eye protection is not safe.

Oakley A frames do not meet pball requirements. The things that pball goggles are required to protect against are actually pretty impressive. We're actually supposed to be wearing them with the facemask installed to prevent a pellet from bursting between the nose and goggle. It has been found that a burst pellet hitting at the side of the nose and the bottom of the goggle can force pball shell fragments up into the goggle large enough to damage the eye. A frames do not allow the installation of a lower mask do they don't meet the insurance requirements. The lower mask also makes fitment issues less of a problem. Everyones face is different. If there is a small gap in that critical nose area (it's the spot where most accidents happen now) the face mask covers up that gap.