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This sounds cool! I remember when I came upon HURLING (the sport) late one evening and it was absolutely incredible. A bunch of guys with no helmets running aro
by Molitor5901 1y ago
This sounds cool! I remember when I came upon HURLING (the sport) late one evening and it was absolutely incredible. A bunch of guys with no helmets running around bouncing a baseball on the end of a short hockey stick, and then slamming that ball across the field.. I thought surely someone was about to get beaned. Incredible sport.
- rgblambda 1y agoHurling should be played with helmets. If it's just a group of friends in a park casually passing the sliotar (ball) to each other and taking practice shots then okay, but not if they were playing a proper game.
- WorkerBee28474 1y ago+1 to helmets. In youth, the very similar sport of lacrosse actually has a higher risk of concussion than football [0]. [0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10883126/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10883126/
- esperent 1y agoAny serious hurling game since at least the early nineties is always played with helmets (as a legal requirement, but also just common sense). Sure, you might have a friendly knockaround without them, but not a real match.
- illwrks 1y agoYou need to wear a helmet with it. Years ago a colleague played in the local team and one weekend took a hurley (the stick with the metal band at the end) to the face and had his jaw broken. Never forgot his helmet again.