It seems that "
helmet boxing" has become a popular backyard sport (see
YouTube), but it is anything but "safe" simply because helmets are in use:
To play, each individual dons a helmet with a face mask, along with a pair of gloves, and then each hits each other in the head until someone passes out, a helmet gets knocked off, or someone simply throws in the towel.
The linked article points out that while the American Academy of Pediatrics has no "official stance" on helmet boxing, they do
consider it to be on the "same playing field as regular boxing," which has been deemed unsafe for "young children with developing brains."
Concussions during childhood are now being recognized as mor ethan one-time benign incidents, as seen by
this blogger's recent post:
...because it’s not yet known how such head injuries will manifest themselves in today’s athletes 15 to 20 years from now.
