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Originally Posted by valo403
Gimme a f'in break. I can pretty much guarantee you I've gone through way more contact in my life than you can dream of, which is why the trivialization of concussions pisses me off. They are a real thing, they are not minor little injuries that should be looked at like a scraped knee. The attitude you demonstrate and the fact that you work with kids in contact sports is a real issue.
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I think you are missing the point I have been trying to make. Of course I understand that concussions are a serious injury. And when they happen we take the necessary precautions to make sure a kid isn't back playing until he is healthy. My contention is on the idea that taken contact out at the lower level will prevent them from happening because I don't think it will. You are just pushing it to an age group where they have the potential to be much more severe.
Look, I don't have kids and I understand a parents need to protect their child from harm, but for me that issue is pretty much cut and dry. If you don't want your child to be potentially hurt, don't put them in a sport that involves people running into each other. I want to prevent myself from being in car crashes, thus I don't race cars. If a kid is going to amke a fuss because their parents won't let them play a contact game that's the individual parents issue to deal with. Its not everyone else's problem when they put them in the sport and don't like the way the game is played.
Your point about taking on much more contact in your life than you would ever see in minor hockey i feel actually argues this point. People (kids in particular) are going to find a way to hurt themselves regardless. We don't need to put a pillow on everything. We used to play a game at this age called "Cream the Carrier" where the basic premise was that 1 kid had a ball, and the other 20+ kids were trying to tackle him. That was it. I'm sure of the older posters can attest to getting into activities at that age that were much more dangerous and potentially harmful than playing full-contact hockey.
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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
Yeah sounds like this decision was primarily made based on the available data - which is hard to dispute. From the sounds of it - there is no evidence that it pushes the problem to Bantam.
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Thats because we wont see the effects of it for a few years. The available data says kids get hurt more when playing with contact that without it. Of course thats the case, that's just logic. The point that me (and others) are trying to make is that the contact is not a surprise to the kids or the parents. Its there and the only way to truly completely avoid serious injury (at anything, not just hockey) is to not do it. Every single parent and child has a choice of whether or not they want to play hockey. And within that also have the choice to play non-contact.