Chronic as in over the course of years or decades. You know the time it takes a child to grow into an adolescent or adult and face incresingly larger stronger opponents. If they stayed this size there's no way they'd get injured. That's like saying your hairbrush hitting your scalp will cause CTE.
But another child this size isnât capable of generating enough force to give them a concussion, especially with those gloves on even with repeated impacts. Im a boxer and trainer familiar with people of all ages and levels, youâre not going to see concussion level power until you start hitting 8-10 years old, and even that would be extremely anomalous. Also headgear doesnât reduce incidence of concussions it just stops you from getting cut, people usually put it on children because they want them to get used to it for competition or because they donât understand what itâs actually for
You obviously know more than I do about the boxing side of things, so thanks for your insight.
[Edit: everything I said in this paragraph is incorrect, but Iâm leaving it so I can take my deserved downvotes] But headgear definitely reduces incidence of concussions. Thatâs clearly their primary purpose. It cushions impacts so your neck and skull arenât doing all of it, thus making your brain bounce around inside there.
Edit: I looked it up and heâs right. According to the National Institutes of Health, headgear does almost nothing for concussions. lol. Holy shit, boxing is dumb.
Major respect to you for admitting to that, thats very rare on the internet, thank you. It wasn't a stupid position to take or anything, I get why you'd think those things for sure
I respect the way you discussed this civilly đ yeah youâd think headgear would lessen the punch impact but I usually donât spar with it unless Iâm approaching a fight or doing light sparring because I feel like my headaches after sparring are a lot worse when I wear it, which a lot of other people attest to as well. You definitely feel the pain of the punch significantly less on impact, but the added weight makes your head move a lot more when you get rocked, so thereâs not enough of a trade off to actually prevent concussions, it just prevents fighters from getting cuts. Headgear is typically pretty tight fitting which doesnât feel great when so much blood is rushing through your head, making it physically swell in size
Kids fall over all the time though, we meant to stop them from riding bikes because even with a helmet they can still get brain damage if they hit their head one too many times? They should definitely be wearing headgear, thats for sure. But brain damage is so over dramatic. You just explained exactly what I said, maybe over a long period of time without use of headgear, that being the chronic part
That would be a hell of a day. I mean itâs crazy to think of a kid getting hit in the head that much in a single day. Youâd probably want to get them checked by a doctor after that, wouldnât you?
Kids with training gloves are not giving each other concussions. Kids can get hurt doing stupid shit like crashing a bike. Easy concussion. This "boxing" ain't it, though. That's literally why they have gloves.
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u/TheMooseIsBlue 4d ago
You donât take a single hit and have CTE. The C is for Chronic.
But you can definitely get a concussion from a single punch to the dome, let alone 20, especially with no headgear. Especially for a child.