Comments on: 92 Years http://frogparade.com/2009/10/92-years/ We like it here! One German and one American translating Los Angeles for the World. Thu, 12 Aug 2010 03:05:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Petra http://frogparade.com/2009/10/92-years/comment-page-1/#comment-626 Petra Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:58:15 +0000 http://frogparade.com/?p=789#comment-626 You are right in your assessment - injuries to the lower extremities are most common. I tried to find some numbers to compare soccer re. rugby injuries, but did not find any, sorry. As you mentioned the concussion - William broke his nose once when he was still playing soccer; he tried to head a ball and smashed into the skull of the other guy going for the ball. Ouch. You are right in your assessment – injuries to the lower extremities are most common. I tried to find some numbers to compare soccer re. rugby injuries, but did not find any, sorry.

As you mentioned the concussion – William broke his nose once when he was still playing soccer; he tried to head a ball and smashed into the skull of the other guy going for the ball. Ouch.

]]> By: Karen http://frogparade.com/2009/10/92-years/comment-page-1/#comment-631 Karen Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:28:34 +0000 http://frogparade.com/?p=789#comment-631 Well, that was certainly enlightening. I wonder how rugby stacks up against soccer for injuries. Most soccer injuries are knee injuries, concussions, and broken wrists, I think. Mainly, the knee injuries though. We felt very fortunate that Nicole never had a knee injury. Because of the pivoting involved, most knee injuries in soccer are torn ACL injuries. Nicole did have a broken wrist (more common in goal keepers than field players), but never a concussion. She did, however, give an opposing player a concussion. Or rather, the girl gave herself a concussion when she tried to go over Nicole's back to head a ball and smacked her head into the back of Nicole's head. Nicole didn't even know she'd injured the poor girl. After the whistles stopped play, she turned around and asked "What happened to her?" Talk about hard-headed! She was a very sturdy player. Well, that was certainly enlightening. I wonder how rugby stacks up against soccer for injuries. Most soccer injuries are knee injuries, concussions, and broken wrists, I think. Mainly, the knee injuries though. We felt very fortunate that Nicole never had a knee injury. Because of the pivoting involved, most knee injuries in soccer are torn ACL injuries. Nicole did have a broken wrist (more common in goal keepers than field players), but never a concussion. She did, however, give an opposing player a concussion. Or rather, the girl gave herself a concussion when she tried to go over Nicole’s back to head a ball and smacked her head into the back of Nicole’s head. Nicole didn’t even know she’d injured the poor girl. After the whistles stopped play, she turned around and asked “What happened to her?” Talk about hard-headed! She was a very sturdy player.

]]> By: Petra http://frogparade.com/2009/10/92-years/comment-page-1/#comment-630 Petra Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:18:17 +0000 http://frogparade.com/?p=789#comment-630 And that exactly is the difference - Rugby players don't wear amour and are in constant contact, therefor they have to have the technique down to <strong>not</strong> get hurt. If you go here http://www.usarugby.org/media/EDocs/IsRugbySafeForYouth.pdf you can read up on the paradox that Rugby is safer due to the lack of amour and some quite amazing numbers about the incidence of injuries in Rugby and American football. You will probably do a double take! Professional Rugby players run up to 6'9" or so, but because the big guys have to run around as much as the little guys (and basically everybody is running all the time), they could not carry around 325 lbs. Probably the biggest would be 275 lbs. or so. And that exactly is the difference – Rugby players don’t wear amour and are in constant contact, therefor they have to have the technique down to not get hurt. If you go here

http://www.usarugby.org/media/EDocs/IsRugbySafeForYouth.pdf

you can read up on the paradox that Rugby is safer due to the lack of amour and some quite amazing numbers about the incidence of injuries in Rugby and American football. You will probably do a double take!

Professional Rugby players run up to 6’9″ or so, but because the big guys have to run around as much as the little guys (and basically everybody is running all the time), they could not carry around 325 lbs. Probably the biggest would be 275 lbs. or so.

]]> By: Karen http://frogparade.com/2009/10/92-years/comment-page-1/#comment-629 Karen Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:04:24 +0000 http://frogparade.com/?p=789#comment-629 Well, think about it. The NFL players get to wear helmets and all sorts of padding, and the kicker and quarterback practically have a force field around them - there are so many penalties for "touching" them. Rugby players just go at it, no pads, no helmets. Of course, I'm guessing there aren't too many 6'6", 325 lb. rugby players, though. Padding or no, it would have to ouch to be tackled by someone that size. Well, think about it. The NFL players get to wear helmets and all sorts of padding, and the kicker and quarterback practically have a force field around them – there are so many penalties for “touching” them. Rugby players just go at it, no pads, no helmets. Of course, I’m guessing there aren’t too many 6’6″, 325 lb. rugby players, though. Padding or no, it would have to ouch to be tackled by someone that size.

]]> By: Petra http://frogparade.com/2009/10/92-years/comment-page-1/#comment-628 Petra Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:09:01 +0000 http://frogparade.com/?p=789#comment-628 Yes, I did - thank you. That are the New Zealand All Blacks, doing their Haka (which they always do before a game). We have a team here with a lot of Samoans and other islanders - they do the same and it is always quite impressive. But violence to scare NFL players? Who ever came up with that does not know much about Rugby. :-) Yes, I did – thank you. That are the New Zealand All Blacks, doing their Haka (which they always do before a game). We have a team here with a lot of Samoans and other islanders – they do the same and it is always quite impressive.

But violence to scare NFL players? Who ever came up with that does not know much about Rugby. :-)

]]> By: Karen http://frogparade.com/2009/10/92-years/comment-page-1/#comment-627 Karen Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:51:46 +0000 http://frogparade.com/?p=789#comment-627 Did you get my funny rugby photo? I emailed it to you. Did you get my funny rugby photo? I emailed it to you.

]]>