Hockey Details
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Disadvantage: Injury Risk
Hockey is a fast-moving sport that can have a lot of contact and spills on the ice. Even at the youth level, hockey injuries can be common and serious. A 2001study by the British Columbia Injury Research and Prevention Unit found that there are four times as many injuries in leagues that allow contact than those that don't, and that amongteen hockey players, body checking accounted for 86 percent of hockey-related injuries, and 23 percent of those were to the head and neck.
Advantage: Character Building
Participating inany team sport can be a way to develop a sense of teamwork and good sportsmanship. A long-standing tradition in hockey is the handshake line at the end of a game or a series, where theplayers, from kids on up to the pros, shake hands one by one with all of their opponents. You learn that you can compete hard against someone, but when the game is over can treat eachother with respect.
Disadvantage: Violence
Hockey often thought of by casual fans as game too often marred by fighting and cheap shots. And while the reality is that fighting is only asmall part of the game, it is a way that players and teams settle differences and defend teammates. In international play and college hockey, fighting is seldom seen, but in North Americanminor leagues and to a lesser degree the NHL, fights are a longtime component of the game. Many people are turned off by this aspect of the game and parents might want to discouragetheir kids from participating in a sport that ultimately allows and encourages the occasional fisticuffs.
One disadvantage of playing Hockey is that this is a fast-moving sport that canhave a lot of contact and spills on the ice but one advantage is that you learn that you can compete hard against someone, but when the game is over you can treat each other with respect.
Hockey is a fast-moving sport that can have a lot of contact and spills on the ice. Even at the youth level, hockey injuries can be common and serious. A 2001study by the British Columbia Injury Research and Prevention Unit found that there are four times as many injuries in leagues that allow contact than those that don't, and that amongteen hockey players, body checking accounted for 86 percent of hockey-related injuries, and 23 percent of those were to the head and neck.
Advantage: Character Building
Participating inany team sport can be a way to develop a sense of teamwork and good sportsmanship. A long-standing tradition in hockey is the handshake line at the end of a game or a series, where theplayers, from kids on up to the pros, shake hands one by one with all of their opponents. You learn that you can compete hard against someone, but when the game is over can treat eachother with respect.
Disadvantage: Violence
Hockey often thought of by casual fans as game too often marred by fighting and cheap shots. And while the reality is that fighting is only asmall part of the game, it is a way that players and teams settle differences and defend teammates. In international play and college hockey, fighting is seldom seen, but in North Americanminor leagues and to a lesser degree the NHL, fights are a longtime component of the game. Many people are turned off by this aspect of the game and parents might want to discouragetheir kids from participating in a sport that ultimately allows and encourages the occasional fisticuffs.
One disadvantage of playing Hockey is that this is a fast-moving sport that canhave a lot of contact and spills on the ice but one advantage is that you learn that you can compete hard against someone, but when the game is over you can treat each other with respect.
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