As we better understand how the brain works we should be adapting sports based on our new findings. The brain is super complicated and still very much not understood.
I have 2 kids who play competitively and I've enjoyed seeing them wait to do headers tell they were older but ide go a step further, headers off punts should be illegal, that would help the majority of hard headers throughout the game. The gravitional force off a punt has to be much higher than a regular field of play header.
Even at 14 most of the kids are like why head that when I can trap it and get up field under more control.
Most kids who've held off heading tell later I feel like get better at using other parts of their body.
Limiting headers to cornerkicks, or heck, ban headers, I doubt soccer players would care. It's a game of feet anyways.
adaptbrian•7mo ago
I have 2 kids who play competitively and I've enjoyed seeing them wait to do headers tell they were older but ide go a step further, headers off punts should be illegal, that would help the majority of hard headers throughout the game. The gravitional force off a punt has to be much higher than a regular field of play header.
Even at 14 most of the kids are like why head that when I can trap it and get up field under more control.
Most kids who've held off heading tell later I feel like get better at using other parts of their body.
Limiting headers to cornerkicks, or heck, ban headers, I doubt soccer players would care. It's a game of feet anyways.