dan1073 wrote:Did I not state the if players are unable to walk they can't play? This is the same thing I said with different wording.
Maybe I wasn't clear enough, but I meant to say that it's not only when they can't walk. They can in principle stop when they think they can't continue. And when it's more serious, they aren't even allowed to continue. You're not allowed to play when you're still bleeding for example. So I don't see a real problem here?
dan1073 wrote:Perhaps I described my point wrongly. But first does getting kicked in the head or punched in the face have a higher percentage of getting brain damage. 5 punches in the face the damage is cosmetic. 5 kicks to the head the damage is internally.
The statistics of boxing proves that punches also lead to internal damage. But you seem to forget that kicking in the head is not at all permitted in soccer (even if someones feet is coming close to another players head, the game will be stopped and the player will possibly get a yellow or red card), while punching on the head is the central idea of boxing.
dan1073 wrote:The problem with measuring it that way is that people will look at the data and because the number is high people will say "high numbers mean high injuries" when in reality it's just do to the low number participants engaged in the activity.
I'm not sure what the point is you're trying to make. Do you mean that if it's something that isn't practiced a lot, then it's alright? What if it became more popular and there would be more participants; the percentages would approximately still be the same.
@brimstoneSalid
Not everything that gets a ban goes underground (on the same scale as it was before the ban). With things like drugs (like alcohol) it's pretty obvious, since a lot of people simply can't life without it because of their addiction. I don't think you can compare it with a sport. But like you said, this can be checked in places where it is an illegal practice already. And of course, it's also possible that the change only has effect after a generation or so, since the new generations aren't grown up with it and have not developed an interested in it. But you definitely made some good points.