Seems like they should. They hit pretty hard and sometimes it look like their heads could hit each other, not to mention when the chairs tip over.
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lol... wonderfully insulting.
shareka137...how much of a dick are you?. who are you to make fun of people who have had something so terrible happen to them? eveyone makes mistakes, people make similar decisions to these guys everyday, these guys were unlucky...
did bob choose to get that blood disease?
In Bob's case, what ka137 said was a insensitive, also in the case of Joe.
But do you think Zupan is going to say it was really intelligent to get drunk and pass out in Igoe's truck? No. They KNOW some of the things they have done are stupid, especially the incident that ended in their SCI.
It doesn't make ka137 a dick. It's a pretty astute observation.
These guys just live high risk life-styles, and I for one can't wait to be the therapist to take them on as a challenge.
cause they aren't soft like american footballers.
shareTHe queestion that I would as is whether anyone has suffered a serious injury that moves beyond the superficial broken fingers and stuff playng murderball? I figure not, or else there would be a greater push for safety equipment. People break there knecks playing American football a lot. If someone suffered that kind of injury, I bet they'd incorporate more safety equipment. Not to mention, the special chairs seem to be safety equipment themselves
shareThese guys have already broken their necks - how much worse can it get?
When you've been to hell and back, nothing scares you anymore.
Helmets and body armour are for the wimps that play American football.
wimps. lol. ignorant bravado.
This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here.
saying that american footballers are soft because they wear helmets is like saying mediaeval knights were soft for wearing helmets. American football is different from other contact sports in that every 5 minutes both sides are charging full force at 15 mph towards each other, creating a total impact of 30 mph. That's like getting hit by a small car. let's see you throw your shoulder into oncoming traffic, over and over again, every five minutes for an hour straight and not ask for padding.
American football players suffer more impact/endurance related injuries than any other athletes. Hockey players suffer the most impact/instant injuries, and footballers suffer the most muscle/endurance injuries. Hockey players wear pads. How do they obtain so much damage.
Rugby is intense, but it's also more fluid that american football. There are lots of impacts, but it's not the whole team at once, and not pure, head-on impact all the time. If rugby players wore pads they would be way below American football players. The fact that they don't is the reason they're just a little more hard-core.
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right on!! :D
shareI have a number of friends who play Murderball (aka Quad Rugby), including one guy who has a small role in the documentary "Murderball". I believe a mutual friend of mine asked this question of why they don't wear helmets once, and Will (plays for the Portland Pounders Quad Rugby team) half-jokingly said "well we've already broken our backs, how many more injuries can we sustain?". And I know that he said this half-jokingly but if you think about it, its sort of true. Besides, as someone who has seen a number of quad ruby tournaments I can say that many of the players are strapped into their chairs and the chairs function in a way so that the chair will get the brunt of the blows if a player gets knocked down or something. I assure you they have plenty of safeguards making for a - relatively- safe game.
shareI hang out with the St Louis Rams Quad Rugby Team. Helmets really wouldn't make much difference. They are strapped into their chairs so tightly that when they get hit and flip over, they don't fly out. Their whole chair flips over with them in it. A lot of the players have enough body function to kind of redirect themselves as they are falling so they don't get hurt. The ones that don't very rarely get hit hard enough to flip over. One time in the 4 years I've been watching quad rugby did I see 2 players knock heads. They hit head on, and both back wheels of both chairs went up in the air, and they perfectly hit forehead to forehead. The result: headache for both, a little dizziness for one. Head injuries just aren't very likely in the sport. More people probably hurt their heads walking into beams or something. Besides, helmets would just take away from the fun of it.
shareGood question.
And thanks to all those whom have answered without being insensitive pricks.
It's like what Joe Swanson's wife on "Family guy" said about how "Sometimes I think your father won't be completely happy until he's totally paralyzed."(something to that effect) to their son when Joe was riding his chair on the rollercoaster.
My name is Tim, and I'm not wearing any pants!