Scrap helmets and pads, improve safety and technique

Sitch said

a correlation can be made that a lighter piece of headgear is used providing little benefit to lowering concussion risk in a sport using similar movements and techniques, tackling in NFL and Rugby is very similar, granted we are talking about a different scale of helmet, but the study related to american football also says that the helmet is not much protection

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What it suggests is that that softer type of helmet would not help with concussions, not that there isn't a kind of helmet that would help. There is a lot of new technology out there that may help the issue. Some is based on new developments in helmets. But, there are also things like the new Nike mouth pieces that apparently do something to put your jaw in a position that somehow reduces concussions.