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[Scribe]

But it turns out most of us were sparring and walking with mild concussions all the time and just didn't realize it.

Exactly. I trained at a gym that had people competing, not professionally of course, but still going out to events and fighting on the regional scene. We had folks sparing multiple times a week, and that brain fog is a thing.

 

[Bedrockgames]

Exactly. I trained at a gym that had people competing, not professionally of course, but still going out to events and fighting on the regional scene. We had folks sparing multiple times a week, and that brain fog is a thing.

The last gym I went to, we sparred every day we were there and we sparred hard. These days hard sparring seems to becoming less common, but it is still kind of the norm where I am and I think boxing is a sport where it remains pretty normal (I see a lot of MMA and kickboxing people going more for light sparring these days with occasional hard sparring mixed in). I probably wouldn't encourage any young people in my family to get into it as there is really nothing to be gained from it, but you end up with cognitive issues regardless

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Oh exactly. The best part is, my Dad was my HS Football coach. In our league championship I lost vision out of one eye after a hit. "OK, just give it a few play's, it will come back."

And he sent me back out.

I almost became a statistic when I stopped sweating in August two-a days. In Texas. I wasn’t far off from dying.

My lines coach noticed and immediately sent me off into the shade with a trainer and a cooler full of water. I had really not been hydrating.

 

[Bedrockgames]

I almost became a statistic when I stopped sweating in August two-a days. In Texas. I wasn’t far off from dying.

My lines coach noticed and immediately sent me off into the shade with a trainer and a cooler full of water. I had really not been hydrating.

Hydration is so important. The older I get the more clear that becomes in my daily life.

This is one of the reasons I think they need to eliminate weight cutting from combat sports. It is also one of the things that leads to a lot of mismatched events

 

[Ryujin]

I almost became a statistic when I stopped sweating in August two-a days. In Texas. I wasn’t far off from dying.

My lines coach noticed and immediately sent me off into the shade with a trainer and a cooler full of water. I had really not been hydrating.

Back in my teens I saw a few Air Cadets face plant after standing on parade for an hour, in high temps, in full dress. We were told that locking your knees might be less tiring, when standing for long periods, but it contributes to head meeting parade ground.

I've never experienced anything as bad as you, thankfully. The worst I ever experienced was when I was working in the racing pits, for a ladyfriend. Her sponsors didn't show up for a weekend when it hit about 34C and I ended up doing all the go-fer work. Forgot to drink anything, for extended periods. I don't even remember the 2.5 hour drive home (I'm an idiot) and flopped into bed when I arrived, then spent the next 2 days off work and taking in almost exclusively fluids.

 

[Scribe]

I almost became a statistic when I stopped sweating in August two-a days. In Texas. I wasn’t far off from dying.

See, I'm from Canada, and a northern portion at that. Two-a-days for me, where under such wildly different conditions from two-a-days for you, I just cannot imagine.

To say nothing of the quality of ball being different lol, I am realistic.

 

[Velderan]

Back in my teens I saw a few Air Cadets face plant after standing on parade for an hour, in high temps, in full dress. We were told that locking your knees might be less tiring, when standing for long periods, but it contributes to head meeting parade ground.

I've never experienced anything as bad as you, thankfully. The worst I ever experienced was when I was working in the racing pits, for a ladyfriend. Her sponsors didn't show up for a weekend when it hit about 34C and I ended up doing all the go-fer work. Forgot to drink anything, for extended periods. I don't even remember the 2.5 hour drive home (I'm an idiot) and flopped into bed when I arrived, then spent the next 2 days off work and taking in almost exclusively fluids.

I have some pictures somewhere of a military formation I was standing in while in Afghanistan for the change of command between General Petraeus and General Allen, so in other words not a short ceremony. Whoever was taking pictures captured the moment someone made the rookie mistake of locking his knees long enough that in picture 1 he wobbled forward a bit, in picture 2 he wobbled back, and picture 3 was his spot in the formation empty as the people to his left and right both looked down at him trying to figure out what happened to him.

 

[Ryujin]

I have some pictures somewhere of a military formation I was standing in while in Afghanistan for the change of command between General Petraeus and General Allen, so in other words not a short ceremony. Whoever was taking pictures captured the moment someone made the rookie mistake of locking his knees long enough that in picture 1 he wobbled forward a bit, in picture 2 he wobbled back, and picture 3 was his spot in the formation empty as the people to his left and right both looked down at him trying to figure out what happened to him.

Quite a sickening sound when head meets asphalt/concrete.

 

[Staffan]

Darn them for wanting competitors to actually survive the match! Why can't they just allow real bloodsport as the Ancients intended!?!

I have always held that biathlon would be a more interesting sport if the contestants were allowed to shoot at one another, not just targets. Perhaps not using lethal rounds but maybe something like paintball, and if you get hit you have to take a penalty of some sort.

 

[CleverNickName]

Wasn't there a push in the 80s to make laser tag into an Olympic sport? or did I hallucinate that too?