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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
This is excellent.
I suffered, well probably too many concussions in my life.
All my boy wants to play is physical sport, rugby, lacrosse, hockey, wrestling and recently he told me he wants to box. It worries me.
This would make me feel better, but I am pushing back on boxing, I mean punches to the head?
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Same, every sport has the element of injuries and head injuries. But boxing just seems to ask for concussions, especially as kids get older and stronger.
I tell everyone to really take an interest in their coaches no matter what the sport. Are they trained on concussion awareness and safety, do they teach contact the right way? I mean with football we have to take safe contact, making headway, and ethical decision making before we can ever take the field. I'm sure its the same now in Hockey and Rugby as well, but its always a good question to ask when you're picking your kids team.
But boxing? As much as I used to love it, and I did box for a while (two concussions) its just got too many possibilities of going wrong.