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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A good neighborhood friend has her boys in local rugby leagues. She’s been trying to convince me to get DS into it too.

I have zero background with this sport. And I have some doubts.  I guess beyond the lack of helmets thing (I mean, CTE is real), doesn’t  rugby just give off a, sort of toxic masculinity vide?[/quote]

The lack of helmets actually makes rugby safer. Helmets contribute to CTE. In rugby they teach them how to tackle properly. No leading with the head/helmet to helmet contact, etc. [/quote]

What a load of sh!t.

Rugby is terrible for your brain too. The helmet pads arguments are always so stupid and completely debased from basic physics.  If you  run, and then crash into something, guess what? Your brain is going to feel impulse forces due to huge and rapid changes in momentum no matter of you have pads or not. Then you're constant getting slammed into the ground head or no head hitting it first, it doesn't matter.  You're still imparting violent collisions to the body that will damage the brain.  Go watch YouTube videos of hard rugby tackles and try to sit there with a straight face while telling everyone it is A OK for a young brain to endure that.  You're lying through your teeth.  You also can simply look at all of the CTE in rugby players, which is just as horrible as those flound in ice hockey players or football players:

https://www.sciencealert.com/alarming-study-finds-risk-of-brain-disease-rises-every-year-you-play-rugby

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/05/sport/cte-rugby-early-onset-dementia-intl-spt/index.html

Any sport where collisions are a required aspect of the game is pretty much completely stupid to sign your kid up for these days with all of the brain safety science we now know. No amount of equipment or no equipment protects you from it. [/quote]

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