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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
As a coach, I can pretty confidently state that the reason for a lot of injuries is because of the old school mentally when it comes to hitting. Coaches love the big hit. But they don't spend a lot of time on safe or heads up tackling technique that protects the neck and back and head of the tackler for example. they spend way to much time on scheme and reads.
If we coach our kids properly then we can change the game.
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I agree with this. As a soccer coach I spent a lot of practices teaching safe, proper slide tackles.
I had a parent actually give me crap about it because the kids were getting hurt at my practices, nothing major just scrapes and bruises but no other coach actually practiced tackling so it was a foreign concept to the parents and they were wondering why I was doing it.
"If no other coach they've had actually practiced tackling, how are they expected to know how to do it properly?"
Tackling, be it in football, soccer or rugby is a two-person deal. You have to learn how to do tackle safely and how to be tackled properly.
If a guy hits you and he has no idea what hes doing then you're both going to get hurt.
If you get hit and you've never been hit before, same deal. Someone's going to get hurt.