Player development vs Player saftey

throughout something.

My

reflective project is an investigation on

player safety versus player development.

So my issue um other side, just players

PhD versus development,

I decided to investigate this due to increasing rules and

regulations being implemented into youth sports around the world.

The first topic I will talk about is Tiger Woods.

Tiger Woods, who is a famous golfer

um known for being one of if not the best at his sports and

perseverance through

a lot of adversity.

Um is a topic in my reflective project

as he grew,

I grew up with a very strict father who believed that type of needed to face adversity

Two

become

great, which she did.

So

what happened is in Tiger's upbringing,

he was obviously very talented.

However,

his father viewed him as still needing a lot more work and this wasn't really in his

technical side, he thought how you needed to be tougher,

He wanted to push him

not only mentally, but physically,

he made Tiger play through injury fatigue and pain

and made sure that he could face adversity.

The effect of this was that Tiger's dad, Earl managed to make tigers stronger,

not only messy, but physically

the ability allowed him

to play through adversity

in the highest levels, which is something that Tiger majorly credits to his

prowess and success in his professional career.

What this means in terms of my topic is that the

story shows that it's important to make young players face mental

and physical adversity to allow them to become stronger and more

mature as they prepare for the highest levels of the game

without this players

going coddled and not ready for the

next level

and it

um it

degradation, it's the

proficiency of the game.

My next topic is

injuries in youth baseball.

Um This topic came about as it's been reported that in youth baseball is becoming

more and more common for young pictures to have to undergo Tommy john surgery.

So

what Tommy john surgery is is a surgery used to fix your own lier collateral

ligament

otherwise known as EEC L.

It is named after baseball pitcher Tommy john who first had the procedure.

Why is it happening?

Well pitching is a strain on your UCL even when you're fully developed adult.

The issue for young pictures is that they have not reached a physical

maturity and are throwing for a long amount of time very often.

If coaches aren't alert enough to recognize

that their parents are passing their physical limits

then players will risk injury.

Why isn't much being done about it?

Well the reason that it's still so persistent in the game

is jesus coaches prioritizing getting a good performance from a player

but not also prioritizing the player's health,

closest focusing on winds and good performances.

May not consider um the long term ramifications of pushing their

players too hard to the point where they can no longer play

and what solutions are there.

Well along with limiting time and frequency of pitching for the players.

The coaches can work on prevention tactics such as

not throwing the ball using side on technique,

preventing early trunk rotation and monitoring the players

conditions before they are allowed on the pitch.

Finally I'd like to talk about CTE in the NFL CTE or chronic traumatic

encephalopathy is a cerebral injury that is believed

to occur due to repeated hits to the head

and repeated concussions.

Why is it so common in the M. S. N. F. L.

Well,

the NFL is widely known as one of the most physically demanding sports in the world.

Players are allowed more contact than any other sport excluding rugby.

The downside of this fact is injuries

a background.

Um They're saying that a bad injury in the N. B.

Might end your career but a bad one in the NFL may end your life.

This is due to the increasing cases of players dying

due to physical and mental issues after their NFL career.

This is especially true with C. T.

as it has been found at 300 and 315 former

NFL players were found to have some form of CTE.

Why is it happening?

Well the players are developing CTE due to the aggressive nature of the game.

With the excessive tackles and strong blocks.

Players will take multiple blows to the head of game.

This building up over time,

adding blow after blow and concussion after

concussion will slowly deteriorate the players mental capacity

and what are the NFL doing about this?

Well, in response,

the NFL implemented rules such as not allowing

headfirst charges and not allowing blindside tackles.

However,

with blocking and tackling in general blows to the head are almost guaranteed.

Which begs the question of whether you should sacrifice entertainment for safety.

Similar to the drugs

drugs opposition in youth sports

where they're wondering if they should sacrifice

the development of the game for safety.

The main arguments for both sides are on one side with the safety of players.

You want to make sure that they are able to continue to first

of all play in this sport if they want to reach the next

into the next level. And second of all, you want to make sure that they're not injured

severely going into later stages in their life.

This seriously comes up with um cerebral injuries such

as what I just mentioned in the NFL with CTE

because

unlike a normal injury where you have lasting effects on your body's ability to move

and um you may have pain which you need to take medication for with things like C. T. E.

And other mental conditions that may come from.

Uh cerebral injuries is that it affects a person's mental capacity.

Um It's been shown in a lot of C. T. E.

Cases that players are very non characteristically

and they have been shown to

commit a lot many crimes that normally they wouldn't be inclined to.

And it's also shown that their judgment had become deteriorates over time.

To the point where they're no longer in very much control of what they do.

But the argument for player development is

essentially that without allowing players to face the

adversity um at the at the lower levels once they reach the higher levels,

they're not going to be able to handle the adversity and

therefore everyone is just going to at some point level out

and end up being too scared

and afraid of the adversity,

which would in turn worsen the play of the game

and make it less enjoyable to those who watch.

This is shown in the N. B. A.

Where people constantly complain about players not

taking enough contacts and referees being too lenient

with everybody compared to the nineties In the

80s where everybody was a lot tougher.

It's also been shown in the NFL where people once

again are angry about the referees calling too many files.

So

I believe that there is a middle ground that can

be reached um somewhat like what you have a vaccine for

for Children to allow them to

face some sort of adversity

but still be able to maintain their safety as they go on

through their career in life. And the way that they can maintain the

uh the development of the sport will also make

sure that nobody is harmed just for a game

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