TheMagic5: Swimming goggles for every head

I've been swimming since I was 9 years old, sometimes in a club, many years on triathlon courses, now as a hobby, but still with distances of 2000m and more. Swimming goggles are indispensable and my beloved Michael Phelps model is obviously no longer available. As I've often heard about TheMagic5 through advertising, I decided to take action.

TheMagic5 emerged from a Kickstarter project and moved from Denmark to Charlotte, North Carolina. The founders have the appropriate sporting and entrepreneurial background, which I find very appealing. The promise is to create personalized swimming goggles. I tried that out.

First you choose a model and order it. The question "and what should be personalized about it?" is easy to answer. After the purchase, you download an app to your cell phone, with which the personalization can be assigned by order number. The app first measures your face and then, in a second step, standardizes the size (you take a photo with a credit card-sized card on your forehead). And that's all there is to it.

Shipping took 5 days - including a weekend in between. Very good! The glasses come in a high-quality case that protects them from crushing the rubber seals and scratching the lenses. There are also nose pieces included that allow you to adjust the distance minimally, depending on how narrow or wide you like it.

I adjusted the straps to fit my head and they felt great. Today I swam 2400m in them and what can I say? Although the goggles only fit loosely, they are absolutely tight and fit perfectly. No feeling of pressure at all after a total of 1 hour in the water without taking the goggles off. The vision is also brilliant. It remains to be seen whether this will remain stable over time and whether the rather high price is justified.

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