California may stop youth leagues from banning the guard’s hats

From Ryan SabalowCalmness

This story was originally published by CalmattersS Register about their ballots.

Assembly Avelino Valenciaformer narrow end for the state of San Jose, I had mixed feelings last year When he voted to support a short -term proposal that would forbidding football for claims.

While he credits football to enrich his life, Valencia, a Democrat representing the Anaheim region, said he believed that the game was too dangerous for the developing brains of young players. Governor Gavin Newsom eventually took the rare step of intervention in the legislature to quickly break through the proposal.

This year, Valencia has a new measure, which he believes can help protect the heads of young players, besides a ban on coping. His Assembly Bill 708 Aims to prevent youth football leagues from prohibiting players from carrying mushrooms in the shape of mushrooms Power helmets, which are sometimes worn by NFL players of NFL-WARY-WARY during games.

In an interview with Calmatters, Valencia said “the evidence is significantly clear” that dealing with football puts young players at risk of shocks and long -term problems that come with multiple blows to the head. With the prospect of banning football out of the table while Newsom is in office, he believes that the measure allows the equipment to be sold The Guardian Cap brand is the next best thing.

“I think this is the direction in which I feel most comfortable trying to make the game as fierce as possible, while enabling parents and young people to play this game if they decide,” Valencia said.

The bill is in response to some youth leagues Prohibiting the use of equipmentReferring to fears that the supplements could Negative safety certificates of the helmetS Helmel manufacturers and an organization that certifies them Because safe for players who are reported that pads can change the way their equipment is designed to present, which makes youth leagues vulnerable to court cases if players are injured.

The National Operations Committee on Athletic Equipment Standards Declared in November The fact that the attachment of products to a certified helmet cancels its safety certification unless the supplement has been tested and separately certified.

Two other former college players weigh

Valencia has support from two other former college players in the Assembly, Democratic Assembly Group Steve BennettFormer Linkback and team captain at Brown University and Republican Dispute David TangipaA former player at a narrow end and special teams at the College of Valencia College, Fresh State.

Bennett said the helmet technology had improved dramatically from the time he was a player in the 60s and 70s. When he was in high school, Bennett broke his skull under his helmet while playing, he said.

Bennett supports the steps the leagues take to make football more fed and he said he believed that Valencia’s bill could help. He had no chance of voting the proposed ban on football before Newsom would kill her, but he said there would be reservations to ban.

“Some people say,” Hey, you know, we shouldn’t do sports at all, “he said.” And I would just say that the benefits of sports have so many young people … exceed these risks. So you should try to minimize these risks. “

Tangip did not agree with Valencia last year with his position on the proposed ban. Tangip has not yet been elected for the meeting, but he appeared at a rally calling on legislators to kill him, he said.

But under Valencia’s bill, he agrees that parents and players should have the opportunity to use supplements. He hopes the technology will help “return the difficult football again.” NFL and other football leagues have changed their rules of coping to try to restrict clashes with helmet to Hemet to reduce shocks. Some complain that he has made the game less exciting.

“Look, we went from leather helmets to hard shell helmets,” he said. “There may have been, you know, muttering that it happened for it and now we’ll add an extra layer. I don’t think anyone has to worry about it, especially if it protects our children.”

There is no official opposition to the measure of Valencia, which was sailing through the meeting and seems likely to do the same in the Senate.

Medical group

The bill has support from the California Medical Association, the California Family Academy of Family, California Neurological Society and the California Orthopedic Association, which supports steps to reduce the turmoil of young players.

But whether the helmet pads work as it is advertised is less clear.

Thehe Guardian cap manufacturer as well as NFL Say the caps have helped reduce the turmoil corresponding to laboratory studies showing that the helmet pads reduce the impact. But other studies, including from Stanford and Wisconsin Universities found that they did not affect the degree of turmoil or other head trauma.

Referring to the lack of evidence, the Foundation for the Heritage of the concussion reluctantly supported the measure, but said it would have chosen to see youth football be banned directly.

The group also noted that “there is limited evidence that the soft shell helmets have reduced the number of diagnosed turmoil or will reduce the risk of footballers who develop CTE”, the abbreviation of the exhaustive state of the brain caused by repeated strokes in the head.

“However, if the state will allow children to play, we agree that they should be able to wear helmets with a soft shell,” the letter said.

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