Guard assembly for protecting parts of a person's body and method of use thereof

Abstract

A guard assembly for protecting part of a person's body from impact injury or stud injury. The guard assembly includes a rigid shield and a liner selectively detachably engaged with one another. The shield is fabricated from recycled post-consumer plastics. The liner may be fabricated from a shock absorbing material, particularly a sustainable material. The liner is placed against the person's skin and the shield overlays the liner. Protrusions extending from an outer surface of the liner are received through complementary holes defined in the shield, thus interlockingly engaging the shield and liner with one another. The protrusions extend for a distance outwardly beyond the shield's outer surface. When the guard assembly is used as a shin guard assembly, the protrusions will contact the inner surface of a sock, sleeve, or athletic tape and aid in frictionally retaining the shin guard assembly and sock, sleeve or athletic tape in place.

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