4 ms·

I'm 33 and played sports my whole life. This includes: - Hundreds of competitive basketball games - youth, AAU, high school, etc. - Thousands of running mile

I'm 33 and played sports my whole life. This includes: - Hundreds of competitive basketball games - youth, AAU, high school, etc. - Thousands of running miles - including completing (and winning) trail/mountain ultra marathons - Dozens of soccer games at mixed levels - Training and sparring at a boxing gym for 4-5 days a week for a year And none of this has caused any major injury. The two years I played high school football? A separated shoulder, and a torn MCL. Not to mention having my bell rung many times. I could measure the amount of football games I actually played in like under an hour worth of actual time.

agumonkey 9y ago
And I thought the shoulder thing would protect.. now I wonder if it's not worsening things.
- Broken_Hippo 9y ago
  "now I wonder if it's not worsening things" I wouldn't be surprised if it does. If I remember correctly, a boxer hits harder with a gloved hand than without. Weirdly, this is generally because with the glove on, a harder punch doesn't hurt the hand as much than a punch without it. I'd not be surprised if it is similar in football.
  - acjohnson55 9y ago
    It's the gloves and the wraps. They let you hit the hard parts of your opponent's body with less risk of breaking your hands.
    - agumonkey 9y ago
      I believe gloves weren't for opponent safety but for the show, it made people able to fight longer before hand fractures. The wraps clearly make your fist stronger.
neves 9y ago
I'm from Brazil, a soccer crazy country. All of my friends that continued to play soccer for fun started to get injuries after they were 35yo.
- notgood 9y ago
  Amateur soccer is mostly played without a referee -so it usually doesn't punish aggressive players-, and there are no paramedics next to the field to immediately treat any injury/pain, plus little to no aftercare for the muscles/ligaments. So what I mean is that professional and amateur are a lot different, at least in football soccer. But of course as you get old your body is gonna break more easily, that's what aging after 25 means: decay.
  - woliveirajr 9y ago
    And then there are amateur and amateur games: ones where people take it too seriously (and get hurt) and the ones where everybody is just to enjoy. Do a rough play in the last one and your punishment is to never be invited again by the same people.
- wruza 9y ago
  Soccer has funny "simulation" thing that professional players often do. It was funny until I realized from short article on it, that players have to do that when sports game turns into potentially harmful attacks. Lots of them simulate too much of course, but if they'd never do that, injuries were unavoidable. It looks like non-maleworthy clowning, but actually it saves them from partial life-long disabilities way before these happen. Expression is there only to get an attention. It has nothing to do with cheating when done at the right times.

agumonkey 9y ago

And I thought the shoulder thing would protect.. now I wonder if it's not worsening things.

Broken_Hippo 9y ago
"now I wonder if it's not worsening things" I wouldn't be surprised if it does. If I remember correctly, a boxer hits harder with a gloved hand than without. Weirdly, this is generally because with the glove on, a harder punch doesn't hurt the hand as much than a punch without it. I'd not be surprised if it is similar in football.
- acjohnson55 9y ago
  It's the gloves and the wraps. They let you hit the hard parts of your opponent's body with less risk of breaking your hands.
  - agumonkey 9y ago
    I believe gloves weren't for opponent safety but for the show, it made people able to fight longer before hand fractures. The wraps clearly make your fist stronger.

neves 9y ago

I'm from Brazil, a soccer crazy country. All of my friends that continued to play soccer for fun started to get injuries after they were 35yo.

notgood 9y ago
Amateur soccer is mostly played without a referee -so it usually doesn't punish aggressive players-, and there are no paramedics next to the field to immediately treat any injury/pain, plus little to no aftercare for the muscles/ligaments. So what I mean is that professional and amateur are a lot different, at least in football soccer. But of course as you get old your body is gonna break more easily, that's what aging after 25 means: decay.
- woliveirajr 9y ago
  And then there are amateur and amateur games: ones where people take it too seriously (and get hurt) and the ones where everybody is just to enjoy. Do a rough play in the last one and your punishment is to never be invited again by the same people.
wruza 9y ago
Soccer has funny "simulation" thing that professional players often do. It was funny until I realized from short article on it, that players have to do that when sports game turns into potentially harmful attacks. Lots of them simulate too much of course, but if they'd never do that, injuries were unavoidable. It looks like non-maleworthy clowning, but actually it saves them from partial life-long disabilities way before these happen. Expression is there only to get an attention. It has nothing to do with cheating when done at the right times.