🇺🇸 Article part 2
My professional technical choice
Let me make it clear from the outset that I am talking about my professional and technical choice not to engage in mere commercial proselytizing towards a brand, but because so many of you constantly ask me in private messages and under posts about my equipment, my technical choices, what I use and why.
So I want to share with you what my choice has been in terms of professional tools for vision and eye protection and the reasons that led me to make it. The basic concept remains that there are various top-level brands that make excellent products. Each of you should choose the one you consider most suitable for your needs. The important thing is to use quality products.
After many years of using products from an American brand, I decided to change and entrust the safety of my eyes and the quality of vision, both in performance and in everyday life and work, to another top-level global brand. Wiley X. A decision that was anything but simple because, as we have seen, glasses are not an accessory but technical instruments of extraordinary and strategic importance.
Since birth, I have always had a very high sensitivity to light, which leads me to constantly wear glasses and filtered lenses. So, for me, the choice of lenses and type of filters is absolutely fundamental. For some time now I have been working with and testing Wiley X products, and so far the results have been incredible.
I chose this brand for the seriousness and dedication with which they approach every stage of the process, from research to design to the most stringent tests on materials and products. It is not just about top quality, but about an approach based on the constant desire to innovate, to overcome limits, to transform study and experimentation into tangible results. This means greater eye protection for those who perform high-risk jobs. It means better quality of vision for professional sports activities or for those engaged in complex professions with high-risk profiles.
Having a better quality of vision in everyday life is something extraordinary and accessible to everyone.
The lenses with CAPTIVATE™ technology are the clearest proof. They represent a significant technological evolution. They enhance color rendering, increase contrast perception, reduce glare and ensure extraordinary visual definition even in complex lighting conditions. This means being able to rely on a clearer and more reliable vision in every context, from the operational urban environment to the most extreme outdoor scenarios. And in this line of work, seeing better also means deciding better, because every decision can be definitive.
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Ethics, professionalism and seriousness must never have compromises
Every time I see instructors loaded like Christmas trees at the range, posing as true professionals, and then allowing their students to shoot even at steel targets without requiring them to wear protective glasses, I shudder at their total superficiality and lack of professionalism.
I do not care what pedigree they claim to have. I would revoke their licenses, certificates and qualifications on the spot because such negligence is on par with triggering one of the Big Four or burning a fundamental safety procedure.
Anyone who finds themselves in a risky range, whether they are shooting or simply observing others, MUST wear visual and hearing protective devices, with no exceptions.
There is also another type of individual, generally civilians, who spend thousands of dollars on superfluous gear, especially for use only at the range to look like true professionals, and then spend twenty dollars on eye protection. This is another glaring example of how this industry is often based on appearance rather than substance.
We have always considered safety in firearms training, or in any other field where there is a risk profile, to be absolutely fundamental and non-negotiable. Those who have worked with us can easily confirm this. Both my instructors and I personally carry out, in every live-fire session, on every line and in every battery, individual checks candidate by candidate to ensure they wear the required protective devices and wear them correctly.
We conduct safety briefings in which we give clear and strict rules on the management of protective devices, especially eye protection. Those who do not comply can pack their things and go home, because there is no room in our courses for people who do not respect fundamental safety rules.
