The Shield is designed to help deflect a Pickleball away from your face and eyes.

🛡️ Safety Note (Read Before You Rip)

🎾 Pickleball is fun. It’s also a sport. Things happen fast, bodies move, and contact can happen. Balls, paddles, players, and the court can all cause injury.

🏓 What The DINK Shield is built for
The Shield is designed to help deflect a ball away from your face and eyes. No eyewear can guarantee 100% injury prevention.

⚠️ Big callout: paddles are different
A paddle strike, collision, or hard fall can be extremely dangerous. The Shield is not designed to protect against paddle strikes or high-force impacts, and it may not prevent injury in these situations.

🌬️ Lens-free = better airflow, less fog
The Shield is lens-free on purpose: more airflow, more comfort, less fogging, and easier wear during long sessions.

🛡️ Protection vs. comfort tradeoff
In general, a full safety frame with lenses can provide a higher level of protection, but lenses can fog and feel less practical for some players. Because The Shield has no lens, protection may be reduced in some scenarios, even as comfort goes up.

✅ Standards-informed design (without claiming certification)
We design with established eye-protection frameworks in mind (including ASTM F3164-24 for racket sports including pickleball and the ANSI/ISEA Z87.1 family for occupational eye/face protection).¹ Because lens-free/open-frame designs are not a dedicated “pickleball lens-free” certification category, we do not claim certification unless explicitly stated elsewhere (for example, via third-party testing documentation).

By using The DINK Shield, you acknowledge that sport involves risk and injury may still occur. To the fullest extent permitted by law, DINK Eyewear is not liable for injuries, damages, or losses arising from the use or misuse of The Shield or participation in sports.