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[quote=Nova2Euro][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids played club and travel soccer all the way through high school.  They stopped wearing them somewhere around middle school.  I figured once they got kicked, they'd put them on, but it never happened.  I thought it was bizarre but none of the kids wore them.  And my youngest did take a really hard kick to the shin during a game once, his shin guard slid to the side and was not in the correct position. It was so bad he had to be carried off the field and we went straight to urgent care.  He still stopped wearing them for practice.   [/quote]

[b]Bigger story here is you took your kid to urgent care because he got kicked in this shins during a soccer game[/b], this is funny. Moral of story, despite this he's fine and chooses to still not wear shin guards, is there anything else to say here about this topic?[/quote]

He was smart. Lots of leg breaks happen from this.  You don't know it until it happens to your kid. [/quote]

No they don't.  Very occasional leg breaks happen from this and the people that make shin guards paid a lot of money to a lot of people to get them mandated in as many places as possible because that's the sad way our society rolls these days.[/quote]

You're not wrong in your general description of the corruption in our society. But every European club I've ever seen also mandates shinguards for training. I can't say whether it's due to an abundance of caution or, as I mentioned earlier in the thread, you might as well train with them because you'll need them for matches. But I don't understand why you're so strongly opposed to them--it's maybe $20 you spend once every 4 or 5 years...Maybe because the socks are a bit of a pain?

Edit: I should mention that at the senior level, training without shinguards is pretty common. But at the youth levels, I've never seen it allowed. [/quote]

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