BREAKING NEWS: English Rugby's Controversial New Tackle Law
The Real Science of Sport Podcast
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Rugby League
Tackling lower is more dangerous. How do you know? Well, because I got concussed from a hip contact when I played. And what impressed me... Because the incentive was banning the sport. Well, that was the risk. We think it's evidence-based because we did the first study showing where the height of the contact is the safest for the tackle and the ballcare in 2016. That research has been shared ad nauseum with them. There were five or six papers now in scientific journals. The reason it's had to be done so often is because there's still resistance to the fact that lower is safer. Top level coaches and many players like you've just read that
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