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<blockquote data-quote="Which Tyler" data-source="post: 1117363" data-attributes="member: 73592"><p>Once again for those at the back.</p><p>There was never any suggestion of making it "tackling below the waist" but "at the waist and lower" - the upper border of the waist being described by the lower ribs, hips are lower than the lower border of the waist.</p><p>Head hitting hips and heads hitting knees are safer, and preferable than heads hitting heads, and wasn't the target of the initiative, though an increase would be inevitable.</p><p>Yes, 70%(ish) of head injuries are suffered by the tackler - that doesn't make it okay.</p><p>Only addressing the tacklers height was explicitly NOT the only thing the law makers were trying to address.</p><p>Nipples to waist is not a soft area; ribs are bony (though more giving than shoulders and hips). Waist is the soft area.</p><p>As you say, the tacklers head is almost always higher than their shoulder - so the point of contact wants to be low enough that the tacklers head isn't in the same vicinity as the ball carrier's shoulder, so the tackle height wants to be a few inches below the lowest high-risk contact area (the shoulder).</p><p></p><p>Also worth noting, if the change is too minimal, then the chances are that nothing much actually changes on the pitch. There also seems to be a desire - explicitly expressed by FFR - to introduce a... buffer zone between the target area and the high risk area, to allow for the fact that mistakes happen (and that heads are typically higher than shoulders).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Which Tyler, post: 1117363, member: 73592"] Once again for those at the back. There was never any suggestion of making it "tackling below the waist" but "at the waist and lower" - the upper border of the waist being described by the lower ribs, hips are lower than the lower border of the waist. Head hitting hips and heads hitting knees are safer, and preferable than heads hitting heads, and wasn't the target of the initiative, though an increase would be inevitable. Yes, 70%(ish) of head injuries are suffered by the tackler - that doesn't make it okay. Only addressing the tacklers height was explicitly NOT the only thing the law makers were trying to address. Nipples to waist is not a soft area; ribs are bony (though more giving than shoulders and hips). Waist is the soft area. As you say, the tacklers head is almost always higher than their shoulder - so the point of contact wants to be low enough that the tacklers head isn't in the same vicinity as the ball carrier's shoulder, so the tackle height wants to be a few inches below the lowest high-risk contact area (the shoulder). Also worth noting, if the change is too minimal, then the chances are that nothing much actually changes on the pitch. There also seems to be a desire - explicitly expressed by FFR - to introduce a... buffer zone between the target area and the high risk area, to allow for the fact that mistakes happen (and that heads are typically higher than shoulders). [/QUOTE]
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