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Originally Posted by Carol Rose  quote: What happens when the snorkle falls (or gets ripped) out of your mouth?
the same thing that would happen if you lost your ear guard(s) and/or glove. Ear protection and hand protection is required. There is personal safety equpment required in all sports especially amateur sports: batting helmet in baseball; mouth guards in basketball, american football; chin straps in american football; shin guards in soccer, etc ......
sorry about the cut and paste ....... I was only interested in Duck's first statement
Duck - ask James Luce about mouth guards .......... |
I'm well aware of what can happen, I don't need to check with James. But mouthguards, gloves, and earguards could and should be a personal decision for each individual. If I were real stupid and chose not to wear the guards, then I should suffer the consequences and win the UWH Darwin Award. Not wearing a mouthguard is not dangerous to other players, just yourself. Things that should be required are the things that can hurt others, like having a steel snorkle is dangerous to others and that's why it needs to be flexible.
But how is a ref going to remember which players have internal guards and which don't? If a player has both, and his snorkle comes out of his mouth and the ref stops play (because he can't remember 20 players equipment configuration) then that just stuffs up the play for no reason. And no ref checks all 20 players. Done right one ref checks 10, another ref checks the other 10, and the third ref adjusts his snorkle for a couple of minutes. This is an unenforcible rule that will lead to unneccesary stops in play.