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.
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.