Documenting Sports Injuries

My roommate in college was a varsity scholar playing in the university's basketball team. His dream of making it to the nationals being a very good player himself was shattered when he experienced sports injuries. I on the other hand was able to capture it on video. But his will was too strong to be put down by the incident. Instead it sparked him an idea.

After months of rehabilitation and recovery he told me that we should put up a website to contain videos of different sports injuries. I was knowledgeable in web design and programming so I agreed. I also saw it as an opportunity to hone my skills in video documentary. It took us less than a month and the website was up only missing the videos.

Searching for sports events and sports injuries became our shared passion. We were invited one time to cover a major football event in Nashville. We came to the location and we were overwhelmed by the crowd. What's even more overwhelming was the size of one of the players playing as the team's defense. My video camera was rolling when the player tackled three players at one time. One the players he tackled lost his helmet and he was crushed by another player's helmet.

The player's face was covered in blood and he got a broken nose and his jaw was obviously dislocated. The medical team scrammed to the field to get him. The crowd was silenced by possibly one of the worst sports injuries they have ever witnessed. I uploaded the video to our website and true enough, many were shocked by the event. It became a big news online.

After receiving raves and comments, we went to another sports event in San Francisco to capture sports injuries. There was a basketball championship. Fans from the opposing team came in the stadium filled with zeal and excitement. The star player from one of the team who was known for his slam dunks attempted to wow the crowd with his signature move. The opposition couldn't let it happen so their master blocker tried to prevent the dunk. But instead of blocking the ball, he hit the dunker's face with massive force.

The loud crowd was also in still when the player fell on the floor with a thud. The players cleared the scene for the medics to treat the player. He was unconscious the whole time.

He was brought to the hospital and we were advised that he was in comatose after an internal bleeding in his brain. Like the other video it was also claimed as one the worst sports injurys ever caught on record.

How Cycling Maintains Your Body Energy

As we all know, sports are the best way to keep your body and mind fit. The outdoor and sometimes even indoor games help people to enhance their mental and physical performance.

Cycling is the game for youths. Cycling is the best way to build self-confidence of doing something and to make ourselves believe that we can work even harder to achieve results. In this regard, summer time is the best time for the bicycle race. In this game, the majority of participants are youngsters. Cycling can be organized in day time as well as in night time. Just like in any other racing games, the track length in cycling varies from a short one to longer ones. There are some racing tournament that extends from one state to another. Indeed, a test of endurance.

Cycling is an international level sport which is also helpful for tuning of the body. In this game, people push the paddle of the bicycle and in that case it's the exact and accurate exercise of the body. People who become obese due to any reasons also prefer bicycling to reduce their weight. Bicycling is an ultimate exercise of the body, especially for the legs and thighs.

But the precautions should be taken during the tournament because most of the terrain will really test your ability to last until the final lap. Most of the surface areas are rough roads hence very prone to injury caused by sliding and bumping. Apart from the test of endurance, it is of course a test of speed. There are laps when everyone would be increasing their speed. This event makes the road narrow as everyone is on their feet to speed up. To worse extent, head injury is one of the unwanted but expected type of injury during the race. Yet everyone competes to win the tournament, still, it should not be to safety's expense. When accident happen, even the most experienced cyclist could not prevent. For that reason, before the game, everyone is briefed of the proper way of handling their bikes. Safety gears are required to be worn through out the game to ensure safety form accidents. It includes helmet, elbow and knee caps.

Cycling has been the most popular kind of sport known today. Wherever country you go, everyone knows how to play the game. Nevertheless, enduring a long track which extends miles and preserving enough energy and stamina to last till the final lap require someone with experience and proper training in cycling.

Cycling is a great habit regardless of the kind of work. It is twice as much as beneficial to build stamina, illness resistance and endurance compared with jogging and running. It involves good reflexes which focuses in strengthening the joints and the muscles. Thus, it is twice as much as beneficial in terms of exercising the lungs as compared with swimming as it involves exercise of the entire body. In cycling, almost the entire body is moving forward. Not only the muscular system but also the respiratory system is being straightened. If done right and consistently, cycling can give us the perfect shape and physical fitness we all desire.

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Real Leatherheads

Leatherheads, what exactly is a leatherhead?

Is it a movie starring George Clooney? Well, yes, that is one definition. The leatherheads I am talking about are actual players who wore the helmets we now refer to as 'leatherheads'. We may very well thank the very popular movie for coining the phrase 'leatherheads' as I was unable to find historical references to the general public referring to early football players as 'leatherheads'. However, there is some indication that the helmets themselves were referred to as leatherheads.

Leatherheads-The Early Years

The very first leather football helmet was worn in an 1893 Army-Navy game. An Annapolis shoe maker developed it for Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves who had been advised by a Navy doctor that he would risk death,insanity or paralysis should he take another blow to his head during a game. Later helmets improved design with padding, ear flaps and eventually face guards.

Padding but No Helmets

Players often devised their own method of padding the body and crude shoulder and hip pads were worn throughout the early years of football particularly in the early 1900's. Helmets were a rarity to see on players and often some player wore them while others did not. In the 1920's leather helmets became more accepted but were still not mandatory.

Logo's

Early helmets had no identifying marks upon them whatsoever. As with all games, fierce competition and team pride resulted in some colleges and high schools to paint their helmets by hand. Certain colors or team mascots were eventually painted on to easily distinguish team players. Imagine being a quarterback attempting to find the receiver far down field with no identifying marks on the receiver! Imagine that being a mud game! how difficult that must have been especially if the receiver was well covered! Modern day players can thank the Rams for starting the painting of team logo's on helmets. In 1948 the Rams horns were painted on team helmets and soon after all football helmets bore a teams logo or colors.

True Grit

While we cannot imagine playing a game of football without protective gear the era of 'leatherheads' shows the true grit those early players had. They took a beating week after week and often went to their regular jobs during the week. Their sheer determination and love of the game has given us the football we know today and thankfully our players are much more protected.

Leather Helmets Today

If you can find a leather helmet from that golden era you would be lucky! To find one that doesn't cost you an arm and a leg would be an even bigger accomplishment. Finding images of 'leatherheads' can be difficult as well. International sports artist Andy Goralski has just finished a fine art piece titled "From Leather to Legendary' that portrays the Acme Packers team with the infamous leatherhead helmets. In the back round is the legendary Lambeau Field in Green Bay showing off its newly renovated look. This fine art piece is available in fine art prints and also available on canvas. To find out more and see this legendary piece of sports art complete with a team of 'leatherheads' go to coleengoralski.com

S. Nica is an avid football fan particularly the Green Bay Packers! A collector of fine art sports prints. See ' From Leather to Legendary ' by sports artist Andy Goralski. The original Acme Packers and the newly renovated Lameau Field rising in the mist. You can view this beautiful piece of Packer's history at coleengoralski.com.