Rugby is Not the most Violent Sport.

By: Kaij Mychalchuk

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Injury rate Rising

• Since the early 90’s sport injuries have been continually rising, in 1991 there were 276,000 seven years later there were 365,000 emergency room treated injuries.

• In 2006 there were 500,000 treated injuries in basketball alone, another 2,000,000 injuries with a collection of many other sports.

• The highest numbers of sports-related injuries came from bicycling, basketball, baseball, and running.

Rugby Vs. Football

• So right away you might think rugby is much more violent because of the lack of equipment and high pace and aggression, but actually in rugby there is more skill and form to perform a proper tackle.

• Because in football you can hit someone anywhere and time as long as its below the shoulders, in football you could pick someone up and slam them to the ground or give a blindside hit but in rugby that is an illegal action.

Rugby number 10

• Forbes.com did a most hazardous sport top 10 and rugby made the list at number 10 along with other ball sports. In one year there was an estimated 85,000 injuries within a group of ball sports.

• Basket ball ranked number one with over 500,000 injuries.

What Sports Allow• In the NHL fighting is allowed, some players

make a team based on their play skills others on there fighting skills.

• The goal in rugby is to control the ball and score, in other sports such as boxing and MMA(mixed martial arts) the goal is to knock your opponent out by any means possible.

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Power behind hitting

• Below is a chart that show the in G-Force as you can see a football hit can generate a lot of force, rugby it is almost impossible to generate that much force because of the game style and equipment used in game play.

Continued

• Timothy Gay a professor from U Of N calculated that average sized DB in the NFL can calculate of 1600 Lbs. of tackling force.

Pictures from slide 6&7 are from this same site: http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/physics/4212171

In a Nut Shell

• From the information I have gathered I believe that rugby is not as violent as people may think. Thank you for watching my presentation I hope you enjoyed it!

Resources• Slide 2: http://www.scientificpsychic.com/fitness/sport_injuries.html • Slide 4: http://www.forbes.com/2008/05/29/health-hazardous-sports-forbeslife-

cx_avd_0529health_slide_2.html?thisSpeed=undefined • Slide 6&7: http://www.popularmechanics.com/outdoors/sports/physics/421217