What Tyg's been trying to say--
If I may paraphrase
is that while one expects some players to try to push the envelope of what's legal the biggest changes that have occurred have been instituted by industry--and Tyg gave example earlier of stuff like elbow pads.
The situations arise when companies in competition try to gain a marketplace advantage by giving the players something the next company doesn't have and in the past when certain products might have been considered in violation of then current rules oftentimes the companies producing the new stuff also had a say in either how the rules were interpreted or written (or re-written).
Just another example of why teams, companies, promotors etc shouldn't all be the same people.
As to what the rules ought to be perhaps a baseline of protection that must be adherred to and an absolute max in coverage that can't be exceeded and then the players would have some freedom in between the limits of basic safety and excessive padding.
If I may paraphrase
is that while one expects some players to try to push the envelope of what's legal the biggest changes that have occurred have been instituted by industry--and Tyg gave example earlier of stuff like elbow pads.The situations arise when companies in competition try to gain a marketplace advantage by giving the players something the next company doesn't have and in the past when certain products might have been considered in violation of then current rules oftentimes the companies producing the new stuff also had a say in either how the rules were interpreted or written (or re-written).
Just another example of why teams, companies, promotors etc shouldn't all be the same people.
As to what the rules ought to be perhaps a baseline of protection that must be adherred to and an absolute max in coverage that can't be exceeded and then the players would have some freedom in between the limits of basic safety and excessive padding.
