How To Prevent Football Injuries
How football is dangerous?
Football is dangerous because you can get injured very easily from getting hit hard all the way to falling. You can also get hurt by people doing something called trucking. This is when a personlowers there sholders and runs into someone like this. (Up)
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What Is Football?
Football is an american sport where you try to get the football to the end of the field without dropping the ball or getting tackled. Unfortunately people sometimes get hurt when they're tackled and our project is about how rules are there for a reason to keep people safe and in the game.
Facts About Football Injuries
Knee injuries caused by unsafe tackling in football are the most common. These knee injuries can adversely affect a player's long term involvement in the sport. Along with that there were 52 injuries in the 2017 season. This is bad!
This is the correct way to tackle
Approach ball carrier- chop feet and get under control.
Aiming point inside hip of ball carrier. Keep your eyes on the belt buckle.
Engage ball carrier with shoulder pads. Sink your hips and Face up.
Explode through the target. Keep feet chopping
Shoot hands up, wrap up, and grab cloth.
Put them to the ground.
Football Video
This video is about how players get injured in the NFL, how to prevent bad tackling, and why rules are there.
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https://www.wikihow.com/Tackle-in-Football
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https://www.apex-rehab.com/tag/football/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/1rq5mu/i_took_a_look_at_the_battle_between_lacy_and/
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Tell Others!
Next time you go out to play football be mindful that when tackling the wrong way there can be major consequences. So all in all our project concludes and we hope it informed you of the dangers of tackling inappropriately, and informed you the right way to tackle.