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<blockquote data-quote="Jacket05" data-source="post: 985909" data-attributes="member: 2642"><p>I played rugby at Tech for like a year and a half and loved it. When people bring up the football injuries I always bring up rugby. To me the pads are actually a part of the problem. When you have pads on it makes the player feel like they can throw their body around more carelessly since the "pads will protect them". When playing rugby there are no pads so when you go to hit you are more aware of how you tackle to protect yourself. I mean there are still a lot of concussions and major injuries in rugby but I feel like it promotes proper techniques when playing. There is probably a balance between minimal padding that will reduce damage from the impacts but still encourage awareness of technique. </p><p></p><p>That being said I don't really see this happening as the behavior is so ingrained in football players that reducing padding now would create more problems in the short term.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jacket05, post: 985909, member: 2642"] I played rugby at Tech for like a year and a half and loved it. When people bring up the football injuries I always bring up rugby. To me the pads are actually a part of the problem. When you have pads on it makes the player feel like they can throw their body around more carelessly since the "pads will protect them". When playing rugby there are no pads so when you go to hit you are more aware of how you tackle to protect yourself. I mean there are still a lot of concussions and major injuries in rugby but I feel like it promotes proper techniques when playing. There is probably a balance between minimal padding that will reduce damage from the impacts but still encourage awareness of technique. That being said I don't really see this happening as the behavior is so ingrained in football players that reducing padding now would create more problems in the short term. [/QUOTE]
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