If you love it that much you can always get some sort of face gear. Only thing that jumped in my mind was those clear face things like NBA players use, not sure of how much those are, but that sort of thing is what I am talking about.

Also, I was in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, I absolutely LOVED it, but did my knee in and had to have surgery on it and now I can't put weight on my knee so no go for me, but I KNOW the owner who taught the class would have been perfect to work with on a one on one basis, I just think 95% of the "masters" are just like that though.