Rugby at school level

[wormo]

The rugby coaches at my grammar school (70s/80s) were all ex amateur players from major teams at the time. We were taught the importance of how to tackle and scrummage properly. This was drilled into us from the age of 11. When playing games with those lads who didn't play regularly tended to play 7s.

 

[Welsh wheels]

They are trying to ban contact rugby at school , what's your view.
For me it's a hard one , if you had a child that had been injured , you would say ban . I am actually on the fence here .

Rugby for school children is inherently more dangerous than for grown men, as their brains and skull are still developing. They may also be too gung-ho and not mature enough to evaluate the risks vs the benefits for themselves.

 

[biggs682]

i played rugby at school and it never did me any harm in fact our rugby teachers name is the only school teachers name i can remember 40 years later .

I wonder if Mr Rice is still around ?

 

[nickyboy]

That would be the case for a fair few elite level players as well.

Seeing my son with the other first team players at their "social" events, their brains still have plenty of developing to do

 

[Welsh wheels]

i played rugby at school and it never did me any harm in fact our rugby teachers name is the only school teachers name i can remember 40 years later .

I wonder if Mr Rice is still around ?

That's probably due to concussion

 

[Oldfentiger]

Kids are routinely mollycoddled these days. I know we have to make the world a safe place for them, but they also need to learn all the important life lessons.

I went to a grammar school where all sports except one were played.
The exception was javelin. Excluded because a pupil at another local school was speared with one.

If the football and rugby pitches were unplayable for any reason, we sent to the gym em masse, where we played murderball all afternoon.
For the uninitiated, murderball has only one rule. No biting.

And the world around us wasn't sprayed with Dettol either.

 

[green1]

Teach kids how to do it properly whilst they are small. It means both they and their opponents will be of similar size. That way they have been taught how to do it properly and be less likely to get severely injured when they grow up and are playing people of different size to themselves. I had to stop playing rugby at 15 due to injuries (non rugby) that needed to be protected. The first coach I had also used to sin bin people at training who did something incorrectly, it soon taught you to use proper technique. Your more likely to get away with putting your head on the wrong side of tackle as a kid rather than when you have 18st running at you.

 

[green1]

Less likely but not completely risk free. Elite level players still occasionally suffer severe neck injuries.

They do. Generally due to illegal play or piss poor tackling technique and getting their head on the wrong side.

 

[numbnuts]

Playing rugby, is this while wearing a skirt.........The UK has had it

 

[Cuchilo]

The only injury i suffered while playing rugby at school was from the teacher kicking me full on in the nuts for swearing on the pitch .

 

[KneesUp]

Kids are routinely mollycoddled these days. I know we have to make the world a safe place for them, but they also need to learn all the important life lessons.

I went to a grammar school where all sports except one were played.

How many sports is n-1, where n is "all the sports"?

 

[KneesUp]

I went to a grammar school ... we played murderball all afternoon.
For the uninitiated, murderball has only one rule. No biting.

One wonders what delights were reserved for those without the intellectual qualities required of grammar school, given that you spent a tenth of the time in an organised fight.

 

[AndyRM]

How many sports is n-1, where n is "all the sports"?

Where -1 = Kabaddi?

 

[nickyboy]

Where -1 = Kabaddi?

Kabaddi is quality....it seems to be tig, whilst muttering and holding hands with your mate

 

[KneesUp]

Kabaddi is quality....it seems to be tig, whilst muttering and holding hands with your mate

And holding your breath, that's the tricky bit.