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No tackles in Rugby? 'Elf and safety gorn maaad!!

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I hear some doctors with fuck all else to do are campaigning for tackling in school rugby matches to be banned because it's too dangerous and they should play touch rugby instead

Now im no fan of sport, in fact, if every sport was wiped off the face of the earth tomorrow I wouldn't give a flying fuck. But it's the principle innit? What next? No punching allowed in boxing, no balls allowed in cricket?

The question is, what are the motives behind this campaign? Are they really thinking about the children, or is this just another NHS cost cutting device? Could it be coincidence that the doctor heading the campaign has a son who got injured playing rugby?

I'd be more worried about him getting bummed to death by his public school chums...
 
I'd say you could potentially make a case for opt-in as it is definitely a concussion risk factor, but I agree that it shouldn't be banned. People should be allowed to risk hurting themselves in the name of fun, and we don't gain anything by relentless coddling. And besides, kids heal easily so they can take their lumps just fine.
 
Sprout said:
Hmmm, while it's easy to get up in arms at first glance, #2 from this article is quite pertinent.
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Sure, which is why I am in favour of it being an educated choice, also american football has somewhat of the boxing glove problem I believe in comparison to rugby. Not that rugby is safe, but at least you have to play less hardcore because you aren't wrapped up in foam.
 
SquidInSunglasses said:
I'd say you could potentially make a case for opt-in as it is definitely a concussion risk factor, but I agree that it shouldn't be banned. People should be allowed to risk hurting themselves in the name of fun, and we don't gain anything by relentless coddling. And besides, kids heal easily so they can take their lumps just fine.
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Agreed. I appreciate that some people love it but I hated it (the fact that I was approximately half the size of the people who loved it being a fairly valid excuse I think) and between that and the humiliation-based methods of teaching common amongst 90s PE teachers, it put me off doing any sport until I was in my 30s. It should be about enjoyment not punishment!
 
Exactly, there's a lot of things that would be corrected or ameliorated by having the choice between sports. I sort of enjoyed rugby but I couldn't give a toss for footy, would have preferred to do something else entirely. That said though, I have found sports I enjoy since, especially roller blading, and the various skate versions of regular sports we play. Skate football is entertainingly terrible, skate netball is a bit fast and loose on the rules and when you have over a dozen people each side it gets a bit silly, but it's all good fun anyways. Any sport on skates is inevitably something of a contact sport, for the simple reason that stopping or quickly changing direction is hard. But you only come out with a few bruises to show off, no worries really. Thinking of sports on skates, is indoor paintball a thing? Because I can imagine that being super fun on skates, at least if you could go a bit free for all so you don't just hunker in cover the whole time. One of these days I will find people to persuade to play skate rugby, but I think nobody else is quite willing to die enough for that : P
 
As I half blind school boy when contact lenses didn't exists, built like a brick out house and therefore chosen as a front row;

it was a very blurry event where I never did anything except rub my face on another boy in a stubble war and have someone putting their hand between my legs groping around my balls and generally grabbing my emerging pubes.

In five years of that hell i touched the actual ball a couple of times and didn't know what the hell to do with it.

Now funnily I see it as an amazing game of skill and endurance. No other sport involves such.

But I always avoided the communal bath at the end. Maybe I missed out.........,
 
Fortunately for myself, I was able largely to avoid humiliation on the rugby field by doing extra maths and volunteering hard in the Remedial Studies Unit. Which just happened to come at the expense of P.E. Not only can I solve differential equations but as far as I know, there are still kids writing down every word they have to ask how to spell in a little note book, and then trying to use it in as many sentences as possible until they no longer have to refer to their word books.
 
Sprout said:
I do very much miss MA myself, though I doubt my body could take that level of punishment these days.
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Bodies are damn durable things, and you can always work out alongside.

Incidentally, have you ever thought about how much surgery relies on natural regrowth to finish its job? It amazes me how much of our medical care is just for setting up the body to sort things instead of directly completely repairing something.
 
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