Feeling and looking like a turtle in your armored vest is not just uncomfortable and unsightly, it can be downright dangerous on duty. Your arm and shoulder mobility becomes markedly limited leaving you vulnerable if called to action. With a poor vest fit, your access to your firearm or weapon is limited and you must maneuver around the protruding area to raise your weapon and aim.
Should you have to physically take a person down, you are also going to have a much greater difficulty. You’re wearing a big vest, they are not. Their arms and upper torso have full mobility, yours do not.
Is there a perfect vest that can remedy this? Perhaps a custom made vest? A women’s cut vest? Not wearing a bra at all with your vest? (Yes, a lot of officers actually do this) These options will definitely improve the turtle feel of vest but it won’t REMEDY it.
So, do you want an improvement or a remedy?
If you are opting for a remedy, then we have to look at the real problem – the fleshy terrain UNDER the vest that’s pushing the vest outward. An ideal body shape and tone for a “to the body fit” of body armor is a flatter front surface and streamlined sides. That shape allows for the vest to lay flatly with no gapping. The Cheata Tactical Compression bra delivers exactly that to the body – a silhouette with a dramatically minimized front and slick, streamlined sides.
If you have been wearing a typical bra that is positioning your breast tissue upwards and frontwards, then the entire vest will be pushed out in the front AND at the sides (not just in the front ). Commonly also you’ll see a big loss in ballistic coverage from the gapping at the top sides of the chest in these situations. Major turtle.
If you are one of those gals that doesn’t wear a bra, then you probably experience a smashed feeling from the vest against your breast tissue. So yes, you have LESS of a turtle problem but you get other issues from not wearing a bra. While your turtling problem is lessened, it’s not remedied because your sides aren’t streamlined. You’re still fleshy there.
Cheata’s path to a tactical application came from the world of equestrian. Yes it stopped all bounce and was super comfortable to wear, but what the products also did was allow women to fit into fitted showjackets much easily. They went from lumpy and bumpy looking torsos with pulling buttons and break lines to sleek and slick from wearing the Cheata bra. As any woman who wears fitted jackets knows, tailoring and certain fits DO NOT HELP. The only thing that helps is to dramatically minimize and streamline your upper torso.
For women, body armor is basically a fitted jacket made of Kevlar so the same fit principle applies. Only a Cheata Tactical Compression bra’s sleek silhouette will make your vest fit properly and comfortably. The reviews for Cheata Tactical bras from law enforcement and military speak for themselves. More evidently, these before and after pictures say it all ……..
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Tactical Compression Sports Bras can be purchased online from many suppliers such as Galls.com, GunGoddess.com, Niton999.uk