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In today’s class, we will be talking about contact sport. Enjoy the class!
Contact Sport
The term contact sports are used in competitive activities and medical terminology to describe sports in which players may directly or indirectly have physical contact with an opponent. Some sports, such as martial arts, are scored on impacting on an opponent, while others, including rugby football, require tackling of players for the game to be played fully. These sports are often known as full-contact, as the sport cannot be undertaken without contact. Other sports have contact, but such events are illegal under the rules of the game or are accidental and do not form part of the sport.
The contact in contact sports can also include impact via a piece of sporting equipment, such as being struck by a hockey stick or football.
An athletic contest which involves a significant amount of physical contact between the participating athletes.
Sports which require tackling other opposing players without which the game cannot be played are known as full-contact sports. On the other hand, sports which do not mandatory demand physical contact are known as a non-full-contact sport.
Given any sport which needs forceful and rapid impact actions, its respective governing bodies are slowly changing the rules to limit serious physical injuries. Some contact sports injuries can prove to be fatal or decapitating too. There is a higher incidence of serious injuries in rugby than any other sport because of the full-contact nature of the sport. Contact sports can be classified into three grades.
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Limited Contact Sports:
In these sports, the rules are designed in a way that prevents deliberate or unintentional contact among opposing players. This does not mean that these sports are contact-free, and contact may still happen among players. These contacts are often penalized which may include cautioning of the player, or removal of the player from the field, and so on. Examples of limited contact sports are football, hockey, netball, polo, basketball etc.
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Semi Contact Sports:
These sports are the ones in which there is the use of striking, hitting, or limiting physical contact methods between opposing players. The power to be used in such sports is limited and it is forbidden or even penalized to render the opponent unconscious. The winner is determined using a point-scoring system based on several successful hits or strikes at the opponent.
Also, protective gear is used extensively in such sports. taekwondo, karate are some examples of semi-contact sports.
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Full Contact Sports:
In such sports, deliberate, intentional, and forceful physical impact on the opposing players is not penalized and is generally within the rules of the sport. Excessive and forceful physical contact is allowed in these sports. Actions like tackling and blocking which required physical contact are allowed though in different degrees in respective sports. Examples of full-contact sports are American football, rugby, judo, full-contact karate, etc.
New and emerging sports like BMX biking and dirt-bike races are also beginning to be considered contact sports because the riders ride and race in packs and often a tactic of bumping other riders off the track is used by players.
In our next class, we will be talking about Non-Contact Sport. We hope you enjoyed the class.
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