High Defensive Kicking

The only argument I suppose you could make is that school boys are going to one day be your pros. And if they've only ever tackled the waist and then suddenly they can now tackle all the way to the shoulder, that's too big an adjustment at that late stage. Same argument incidentally for why banning the tackle in kids up to the edge of 16 is I think a bad idea. If you don't learn the competencies when you're smaller and you only introduce full tackling when you're 16, now everyone's bigger, faster, stronger, more powerful. Now you're going to face the risk for the first time. Women are probably more at risk than men because so many women don