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Ice hockey is becoming a very popular sport it is however a collision sport and injuries do occur but with mandatory wearing or helmets and face masks has made hockey a safer sport for all to play and enjoy.The ‘old hands’ at the sport will know it is important to kit yourself with well-fitting equipment thus reducing the frequency and severity of injuries. If you are just starting out in the sport, you will need to consider all safety aspects of the game, and kit yourself out appropriately.
A helmet and face mask is probably the most important piece of safety equipment you will need to buy. Pucks flying at over 100 miles per hour at times has the potential to cause serious injury. Other equipment to keep you safe on the ice, is shoulder pads, elbow pads, gloves, shin guards, padded pants, pelvic protector, and for the goalie, roll neck throat guard.

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Boxing has been a very popular sport for a very long time and boxing gloves are perhaps the most important thing a boxer needs to possess before stepping into the ring. Boxing was added to the Olympics in 688 B.C. Boxing gloves have gone through significant changes and have been around for over 3,000 years. The earliest boxing gloves were strips of leather wrapped around the contestant’s hands.

There was no padding in these early boxing gloves, just leather to protect the boxer’s hands. When the Romans picked up boxing as a sport, they continued to use Greek style leather strips as gloves. Unfortunately, they hardened the leather and attached metal studs and spikes to the strips. As a result, the loser ended up dead or permanently maimed. The modern day boxing gloves were invented by Jack Broughton, an English fighter. They were called Mufflers. It is important to know that the use of modern boxing gloves typically results in fewer superficial facial injuries but greater brain damage to participants.Most gloves manufactured these days have a thumb attachment or a thumb-lock feature which prevents a lot of thumb injuries and accidental eye gouges. There are two types of gloves that you can buy and their uses depends on what kind of boxing you are going to perform. First one is the bag gloves used for punching heavy bags and the other one is the sparring/boxing gloves which are geared for more advanced boxers. They are padded well enough to protect your boxing hands. It is necessary to wrap your wrist securely with hand-wraps. Keep in mind that using a glove without hand wraps may possibly cause an injury. Hand wraps not only protect your hands, they also keep your wrist from being sprained or broken as well. Most famous studies have shown that the gloved fights cause more severe and long term brain and eye injuries than bare-knuckle fights, although the incidence of superficial injuries is reduced. Whatever, boxing still continues to dominate and the passion for the game has not changed even a bit.