Somehow, I am relatively convinced this is one of the craziest things I ever talked about through this medium.
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Somehow, I am relatively convinced this is one of the craziest things I ever talked about through this medium.
#OneTakeMan #InOneTake #HowIWould #OneTakeManUniverse #Sitcom #Sports #ContactSports #SportsComedy #martialarts #MartialArtsSitcom

The 16 Oct edition of The Elephant covered the controversy over allowing under-14s in contact sports;
When you get to the Mum justifying the regular knocks to the head her son's sport involves, I want you to imagine that she's talking about letting the same under-14 year old son drink alcohol. Would those same rationalisations and whattaboutisms fly in that case?
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#FlashbackFriday 2013.
Promoting with Matthew, for AFC #MMA event, at Island MMA.
I shot cageside at many past pro fight night events & did interviews for AFC for a few years.
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"Brain injury from head knocks discovered in late Blues halfback Billy Guyton"
Some heartbreaking details in this article. Hard questions need to be asked about these sports, not least: can we allow them to continue?
CW for symptoms of depression, medical images, suicide.
Researchers have created a new brain imaging method that allows mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBIs) to be diagnosed, even when existing imaging techniques like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) don't show any structural abnormalities. The technique involves loading gadolinium, a standard MRI contrast agent, into hydrogel-based micropatches that are attached to immune cells called macrophages.
knock knock…
Brain lesions in former football players linked to vascular, brain changes https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-12-brain-lesions-football-players-linked.html #ContactSports #concussion #CTE #ChronicTraumaticEncephalopathy
Signs of injury to the brain's white matter called white matter hyperintensities, as seen on brain scans, may be tied more strongly to vascular risk factors, brain shrinkage, and other markers of dementia in former tackle football players than in those who did not play football, according to a study published in Neurology.
World Rugby Chairman Sir Bill Beaumont has welcomed results from the largest ever studies into the forces experienced by rugby players. The results, which provide players and parents with greater clarity and confidence than ever before into the benefits and safety of rugby, are a first anywhere in world sport.