Wearing a protective cup

[wrestlecoach]

How many of you guys actually wore a cup in a team sport, baseball, lacrosse or anything else.
What sport?
What decade/era?
How old are you?
How did you hold it in place? jock, compression short, other?
Did you wear one initially or did you or a teammate have to get hurt to convince you to wear it?

 

[wrestlecoach]

Over the last couple months I have heard the baseball coaches at the college and the high school I work at asserting the need for their players to wear a cup. The college coach even making it clear they were available from the equipment manager at no cost, they are all however with a jockstrap and not a sliding short.
There seems to be a real push o get the pitchers to wear one. But both teams were told they would get better protection by wearing them with a jockstrap than with a compression or sliding short.
I think all the college level catchers I have know throughout the last 3 decades wear a cup and wear it in a jockstrap, they are the first to realize that all the squatting and standing up and down moves a cup around if using the shorts with a pocket. Many times it gets moved into an uncomfortable or unprotective position.

I started wondering about this today as I was watching the Missouri vs texas am game. A player came to bat, very obviously wearing a cup and he was listed as a DH. I know he is a catcher some of the games, but even as DH he was concerned enough to wear his cup. When a lot of players use any excuse not to wear their cup, this guy is in the habit of it and does it all the time it would seem.
The last year or 2 is the first time in over a decade I have heard coaches really pushing the players to understand the need for a cup, to wear a cup, and to wear it properly.
I have also seen more cup jockstraps hanging in lockers this spring and last spring than in a long time. Compression shorts and sliding shorts are just not as popular this spring among these athletes as they have been being. That's a good thing.

 

[1Cody]

High school football, in the 80s, used a protective cup, worn in the girdle that held the pads. I was the Offensive Center and wore the cup after racking my balls really good, which if I had any sense I should have used one from the get go.

 

[deleted223715]

Late 80's wore a hard cup in baseball and for athletics class when weightlifting / dead lifts. Always used a cup jock to hold my cup. Compression shorts just never held the cup secure enough like a jock did so I avoided them. Plus wearing just a cup in a cup strap, I stayed cooler in my gym shorts.

Our athletics coach issued us our standard jocks / usually Bike brand or Duke jockstraps for cross country etc. In the equipment room he kept various UPS boxes of original banana cups in yellow or blue with the cup supporter and he issued 2 to all of us. I still recall thinking how cool those kinds of cups were compared to the gray bike cups we had been using. These had much more room in them. For some reason I just don't recall any of the other guys complaining about gearing up and wearing a cup and jock.

Initially I wore one simply because the coach, an older but very athletic guy, probably in his late 50's early 60's, stressed the importance of keeping our testicles supported during strenuous activity and protected for contact sports. There were enough times I had racked myself when out riding my bike and jumping ramps that I knew what the pain felt like and to me an athletic cup made sense.

He pretty much made it clear that to play on the team you were going to wear a cup whether it was in a jock or your choice of compression shorts. I believe that was good advice then and it has stayed with me through the years.

I never objected to wearing a cup & jock I suppose because from early teens on up I always wore a jockstrap for running after school and mowing lawns and bike riding. In my mind it was just something all guys wore and It felt masculine.

 

[Exbiker]

I've worn one in the last five years, for my karate.

In my mid forties. Something tells me that's not what you're looking for.

 

[jockmaestro]

Late 80's wore a hard cup in baseball and for athletics class when weightlifting / dead lifts. Always used a cup jock to hold my cup. Compression shorts just never held the cup secure enough like a jock did so I avoided them. Plus wearing just a cup in a cup strap, I stayed cooler in my gym shorts.

Our athletics coach issued us our standard jocks / usually Bike brand or Duke jockstraps for cross country etc. In the equipment room he kept various UPS boxes of original banana cups in yellow or blue with the cup supporter and he issued 2 to all of us. I still recall thinking how cool those kinds of cups were compared to the gray bike cups we had been using. These had much more room in them. For some reason I just don't recall any of the other guys complaining about gearing up and wearing a cup and jock.

Initially I wore one simply because the coach, an older but very athletic guy, probably in his late 50's early 60's, stressed the importance of keeping our testicles supported during strenuous activity and protected for contact sports. There were enough times I had racked myself when out riding my bike and jumping ramps that I knew what the pain felt like and to me an athletic cup made sense.

He pretty much made it clear that to play on the team you were going to wear a cup whether it was in a jock or your choice of compression shorts. I believe that was good advice then and it has stayed with me through the years.

I never objected to wearing a cup & jock I suppose because from early teens on up I always wore a jockstrap for running after school and mowing lawns and bike riding. In my mind it was just something all guys wore and It felt masculine.

Your coach was a smart man.
The problem with compression shorts with cup pockets is that the cup simply isn't held AGAINST your pubic area. It just sort of "sits" on it, so that if the pouch is pushed up because of athletic movement, the point of the cup can actually dig into your sac. I finally found a Shock Doc cup that alleviate that problems because, cleverly disguised at the bottom of the pouch, are two short elastic bands that function like a jockstrap leg band: the exert pressure/tension on the tip of the cup and pull it under your nuts where it stays.
However, taking a tip from the Nutty Buddy videos, I started wearing a sports brief and a plain Bike jockstrap over it and slipping the cup into that. It holds it in place perfectly; better than a cup strap. In fact, when I used to wear cup straps, I always wore a regular jockstrap underneath to pouch up my nuts so they'd rest in the cup. I recommend that method.
I think comp shorts have done a great disservice to athletes in this country.

 

[wrestlecoach]

Thought I would add to this.

Just tonight I was in a big sporting goods store, mainly needing a pair of shoes, but just looking around to. 2 young men ask a worker in the shoe depart were I was at were to find a cup at (while holding their hands over their groin as if illustration was needed). He pointed them to the right isle.
They were dressed in the pants of a karate gi and a t shirt so I am guessing it was to be used for karate.

I just had to follow at a distance. The conversation between 2 teenagers discussing with each other the different cups and stuff was rather interesting as well as encouraging that they still have the balls to buy their own cup now days.

Pretty sure they both left with ShockDoctor cup that came with the jockstrap to hold the cup instead of the shorts.
Price is what got them to looking at them, but after a discussion between them they agreed to both get that style instead of the compression short style.

 

[JockVamp]

Interesting story Wrestlecoach.

I wore a standard cup, size small of course, for hockey when I played pee-wee in the 70s. I had a pretty simple mind back then, never thought anything overtly sexual or embarassing at all. Just always slipped it on to keep from getting hurt. I only played two seasons then I had to drop out because playing hockey was an expensive sport - ice time, took a huge toll on my parents dwindling finances back then to say nothing of the constant need for new equipment. That was the only time I wore a cup in a sport. My younger brother wore a large Bike cup when he played HS baseball. Anytime after a game he'd come home, get naked and run downstairs to take a shower so it left me with plenty of time to sniff that cup. The only other sport I played was wrestling in HS and I wore a regular non-cupped jockstrap then.

 

[halcyondays]

I wore cup/jock in baseball from Little League through junior and senior high school. All players were required to wear one during practice and play. 1970s.

 

[bighosenow]

Wore one for HS baseball in the 70's. The school required and furnished the cups and jocks. There were 3 boxes of jockstraps (sm. med. & lg.) and one box of cups in the locker room. You just picked up what ever size you needed. The cups were made of aluminum with a rubber cushion around the edge and were kinda large. It was pretty obvious if you weren't wearing one under your uniform. After a game we just threw the jock and cup into the laundry basket.

 

[1958ST]

should have worn one when in college over 35 years ago. I took a line drive while pitching straight in to my ball and groin (I have always been tight balled)..sucked it up inside of me..It had to be removed and I have been a one baller ever since. WEAR A CUP AT LEAST

 

[1NiceRod]

What sport? Fencing
What decade/era? Early 80s
How old are you? Late teens/early 20s
How did you hold it in place? Jock
Did you wear one initially or did you or a teammate have to get hurt to convince you to wear it? I wore it from the beginning. The team captain stressed its importance, and announced that a local sporting store provided discount pricing for team members. Very glad that I did wear one. I could have suffered injury on several occasions.

 

[cloverleaf]

I played various sports and wore a cup for baseball which I played recreationally. Held by jock.

Today I have a cup I wear with compression shorts when I play softball in the summer like half a dozen times.

I have seen enough injuries by balls to balls to want to protect mine.

 

[halcyondays]

The school required and furnished the cups and jocks.

Lucky. We had to provide our own.

 

[Black_Frost]

When I was studying Martial Arts, back around '01, cups were required, and gods help you if you didn't wear one and got 'cup checked' by a kick to the balls.

We were specifically told to wear banana cups, rather than baseball cups, because the latter don't tend to do squat, when getting snap-kicked up from between the legs, rather than straight on from the front.

I wore the largest size I could order, and hated it. It squeezed my balls, uncomfortably, still transferred enough shock, when kicked, to hurt like hell (although, admittedly, less than not having it on) and chafed like mad (I've got big thighs, muscle not fat, and...just...ow.)

I wouldn't train without one, but big balls and banana cups, not to mention big thighs and banana cups are just...ow.

 

[RioDalston]

I used to wear a cup (we called it a "box") for karate back in the 90s. I basically wore it in the pocket of a special jock.

 

[MisterVIP]

Always wore a cup in organized baseball.

I had the cup that fit into a jockstrap pocket. I also had sliding shorts that came with a cup and a pocket for it, but it is true that those can sometimes shift a little and pinch your sack or worse if you don't adjust it, so I always wore the jockstrap cup underneath the sliding shorts. I got the sliding shorts because they became a necessity after seeing how easy it is to get scuffed and bruised without them; wore them alone one game, but put the jock on underneath for following games because of the shifting/pinching that was possible. Adjusting from time to time is necessary no matter which cup support you use, but I preferred the jock cup holder because it's designed to fit around your parts, rather than sit on top of them like the cup in the shorts does.

Cups aren't just for catchers. It is always possible for a foul ball to bounce down and up into your groin, or for a ground ball to take a bad hop into your crotch (a bit more difficult if you're playing it properly, but not impossible), so it's important for any baseball player to wear one.

 

[squadleader]

I can relate a cup wearing memory that would probably qualify for the "anything else" category.

I belonged to a mostly straight college fraternity that used cups as part of the pledge training experience.
We called it "protecting the future chapter assets"

Pledges were required to wear a house uniform that consisted of white tee shirt, white gym shorts (both labeled in big
block letters "PLEDGE"), with a jock and cup worn underneath. The jockstraps were Bike, and sold by a campus trophy
store with the fraternity initials and PLEDGE printed on the waistband. The cups were the flat triangular plastic ones that
provided little room for one's stuff. Regardless, every pledge had to carry a big black marble in the pouch to keep him
constantly reminded that he could be blackballed by any active for any reason, or no reason at all.

At first pledge uniforms were required only for pledge class meetings, pledge exercise sessions and for pledge work chores, but as hell week and initiation time approached, they became the fashion de jour nearly 24 hours a day.

Our house had a huge collection of 8 mm porno flicks, and on movie night both the members and pledges would gather in the
chapter room to view the the "stimulating" shows. Actives would hoot, hollar and constantly paw their puds during the bed top
gyrations, but the pledges were required to stand silent at attention, arms to the sides with their cocks firmly packaged in their
cups during the entertainment.

After I was initiated, I did everything possible to avoid any sport or activity that would require wearing a cup.

 

[deleted19883]

I can relate a cup wearing memory that would probably qualify for the "anything else" category.

I belonged to a mostly straight college fraternity that used cups as part of the pledge training experience.
We called it "protecting the future chapter assets"

Pledges were required to wear a house uniform that consisted of white tee shirt, white gym shorts (both labeled in big
block letters "PLEDGE"), with a jock and cup worn underneath. The jockstraps were Bike, and sold by a campus trophy
store with the fraternity initials and PLEDGE printed on the waistband. The cups were the flat triangular plastic ones that
provided little room for one's stuff. Regardless, every pledge had to carry a big black marble in the pouch to keep him
constantly reminded that he could be blackballed by any active for any reason, or no reason at all.

At first pledge uniforms were required only for pledge class meetings, pledge exercise sessions and for pledge work chores, but as hell week and initiation time approached, they became the fashion de jour nearly 24 hours a day.

Our house had a huge collection of 8 mm porno flicks, and on movie night both the members and pledges would gather in the
chapter room to view the the "stimulating" shows. Actives would hoot, hollar and constantly paw their puds during the bed top
gyrations, but the pledges were required to stand silent at attention, arms to the sides with their cocks firmly packaged in their
cups during the entertainment.

After I was initiated, I did everything possible to avoid any sport or activity that would require wearing a cup.

I'm confused. What do you mean pawing at your pud.

 

[squadleader]

I'm confused. What do you mean pawing at your pud.

Polite way of saying jerking off, or to the say the least adjusting wood. Tough to do when you are standing at attention,
your dick wants to come to attention but is confined in a tight jockstrap and cup. Not exactly hazing, just pledge training
of sorts