Telsa Cola posted:

Agreed also we are noticing an increase in combat injuries in the people we send helmets guns to so lets discontinue them as well.

Nutsngum posted:

As far as concussions go he isnt wrong. Helmets that are actually small enough to be practical also arent thick enough to prevent concussions during impacts. Yes they of course will stop thost incredibly sever brain killing hits but instead get cumulative damage over a career.

Nutsngum posted:

As far as concussions go he isnt wrong. Helmets that are actually small enough to be practical also arent thick enough to prevent concussions during impacts. Yes they of course will stop thost incredibly sever brain killing hits but instead get cumulative damage over a career.

Chichevache posted:

I didn't know there was any helmet that stopped the brain from sloshing around in the fluid inside of your skull.

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

Theoretically if you made it big enough and the padding just squishy enough, you could slow the deceleration and prevent that. Also, it would be hilarious to watch football games played in real life big head mode.

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

Theoretically if you made it big enough and the padding just squishy enough, you could slow the deceleration and prevent that. Also, it would be hilarious to watch football games played in real life big head mode.

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

Theoretically if you made it big enough and the padding just squishy enough, you could slow the deceleration and prevent that. Also, it would be hilarious to watch football games played in real life big head mode.

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canyoneer posted:

And there were internet tough guy dads saying "if that was my kid being pushed down, me and the kids parents would have a problem". OK sure dude

Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:

A coworker's kid plays in a youth football league, but that has age and weight restrictions to avoid size disparities like this. Seems like youth rugby should have the same thing.

GrandpaPants posted:

So uh, do they not require kids to wear helmets in rugby? Is this just the American in me to think that that seems like a bad idea?

SubponticatePoster posted:

And this is why Americans can't have nice things. It's part of the game, you should tell him, "It's absolutely legal and if you don't like your precious snowflake getting stiff-armed in the face then either teach him to tackle lower or sign him up for tee ball where contact is illegal, you giant pussy."

It does, sort of. USAR classifies groups by age and at the younger levels kids who are 2x as big as their peers get pushed up into a higher division. I'm a ref (but normally avoid doing kids' matches where the rules are different because no contest scrums and rucks are boring) and we got some info about this but I don't remember the exact brackets.

No, it's goddamn rugby, you don't wear hard plastic anything (except the cleats on your boots). You see some of the kids wearing scrum caps and those are fine, but they're just soft padding to reduce the chance of concussion. Rugby has a way lower rate of concussion because you're not taught to lead a tackle with your skull.

Malachite_Dragon posted:

Both your sports are equally dumb.

There, can we move on now

MizPiz posted:

Especially when compared to the far superior game, netball.

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Memento posted:

Helmets encourage kids to slam their heads together and are actually worse for you in the long run.

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nerdz posted:

That samoan kid is like real life Breaking Madden:

http://i.imgur.com/oTvngkc.gifv

http://i.imgur.com/W2oaD1C.gifv

Memento posted:

Hmm yes a lot of cool and good ownage on me in this thread because I dissed a sport that makes people shoot themselves in the heart later in life because they know their brain is broken and want to donate it to science.

Outrail posted:

Is this a thing?

Memento posted:

Hmm yes a lot of cool and good ownage on me in this thread because I dissed a sport that makes people shoot themselves in the heart later in life because they know their brain is broken and want to donate it to science.

American football is a great sport to watch but you have to realise the damage it does to players who get it into their heads that because they're wearing protective gear they're indestructible, and the culture of the NFL that encourages them to destroy their bodies for the spectacle of the sport. The rampant performance enhancing drug use doesn't help.

RNG posted:

It's like how boxing gloves contribute to CTE. You're constantly getting hit very hard by something sort of padded and since one guy doesn't break his hand/the other guy doesn't get cut to ribbons, the fight goes on. Obviously you're still getting punched in the head but the fights would be over sooner without gloves.

Memento posted:

Hmm yes a lot of cool and good ownage on me in this thread because I dissed a sport that makes people shoot themselves in the heart later in life because they know their brain is broken and want to donate it to science.

American football is a great sport to watch but you have to realise the damage it does to players who get it into their heads that because they're wearing protective gear they're indestructible, and the culture of the NFL that encourages them to destroy their bodies for the spectacle of the sport. The rampant performance enhancing drug use doesn't help.

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GrandpaPants posted:

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RNG posted:

It's like how boxing gloves contribute to CTE. You're constantly getting hit very hard by something sort of padded and since one guy doesn't break his hand/the other guy doesn't get cut to ribbons, the fight goes on. Obviously you're still getting punched in the head but the fights would be over sooner without gloves.

Improbable Lobster posted:

People loving died all the time during boxing matches before boxing gloves