Avoiding scrapes on dry ground

PRman

Alright men, ripped the leg and side buttock off myself playing ball on saturday from a couple of slide tackles. Ground is like granite at the moment. I thinkin for my leg to tie up my socks/shin guards might avoid that problem, but what about the other part of me? How do I stop that happening again? Vaseline any good? I see lads with the quad muscle support thingies but I suppose they're more for quad muscle injuries.. anyone else have this problem? Cheers..

Xavi6

Bicycle shorts?

Or do a Robbie Doyle and get some of them tights.

Frisbee

Suck it up?

shoutman

Played a match (rugby) on saturday and my knees have turned into giant scabs as a result of the sandy pitch. Generally what I do at this stage is get two of those knee support sock things (less then a fiver in a pharmacy) tape them on and cover them inside and out in vaseline.

LeixlipRed

Frisbee wrote: »

Suck it up?

+1

It's football, you're gonna get hurt. I could write a Phd sized post on the injuries I've incurred playing football.

ShooterSF

Improve your positioning to reduce the amount of slide tackles?

Ronan|Raven

Just back from visiting family in germany. Be glad ye have grass and not the red "asha" grit surface a lot of the local (regional league) teams play on! The tales of skin being finely removed from ones legs in a sliding tackle makes for grim listening!

elshambo

PRman wrote: »

Alright men, ripped the leg and side buttock off myself playing ball on saturday from a couple of slide tackles. Ground is like granite at the moment. I thinkin for my leg to tie up my socks/shin guards might avoid that problem, but what about the other part of me? How do I stop that happening again? Vaseline any good? I see lads with the quad muscle support thingies but I suppose they're more for quad muscle injuries.. anyone else have this problem? Cheers..

Proper players never need to go to ground!!!:rolleyes:

+
the vaseline may save you tearing up your legs but if you walk into the changing room with vaseline the lads(lasses?) will tear you a new one (and not in a gay way!)

I think the suck it up advice is as good as it gets, cant see how playing football in proper cycle shorts is comfortable and the cheap ones they sell for wearing playing football just ride up dont they?

Check the personal blogs of one of them premier league players who wear hairbands, one of them will have looked into it im sure:D

GLaDOS

I learned to play in goal on the concrete in the street My knees are a maze of scars

And I play primarily on astro now, which isn't particularly easy on them either

shoutman

Lol think its quite funny the posts saying suck it up etc, what would the lads think of a man with vaseline on his knees.
Bloody grazed knees are annoying and painful, no need to suffer for the sake of looking hard... anyone who says otherwise just has to take a long hard look in the mirror and say to themselves "Is today the day I should tell my mother that I'm in love with the postman".

Frisbee

shoutman wrote: »

Lol think its quite funny the posts saying suck it up etc, what would the lads think of a man with vaseline on his knees.
Bloody grazed knees are annoying and painful, no need to suffer for the sake of looking hard... anyone who says otherwise just has to take a long hard look in the mirror and say to themselves "Is today the day I should tell my mother that I'm in love with the postman".

I play on astro three times a week.
My knees, knuckles and elbows are constantly cut/skinless.

A grazed knee is painful, but they happen, you just get on with it.

Eirebear

Stop whining and be glad you didnt grow up in Glasgow.

My knees never got the chance to fully form because of this stuff! :eek:

Edit: If the Ash isnt bad enough, try playing on it on a frozen december morning after the local "young teams" have used it as a battleground the night before....

shoutman

Whats the point of going through the pain when you don't need to. Grazed knees aren't going to make you any better at the game.

Eirebear

shoutman wrote: »

Whats the point of going through the pain when you don't need to. Grazed knees aren't going to make you any better at the game.

Its not about getting hurt for the sake of it. its about the fact that it is inevitable when you are playing football at any level, you will get hurt.

Neil3030

PRman wrote: »

Alright men, ripped the leg and side buttock off myself playing ball on saturday from a couple of slide tackles. Ground is like granite at the moment. I thinkin for my leg to tie up my socks/shin guards might avoid that problem, but what about the other part of me? How do I stop that happening again? Vaseline any good? I see lads with the quad muscle support thingies but I suppose they're more for quad muscle injuries.. anyone else have this problem? Cheers..

Do you think people actually play football on this board?? Heavens man do you not realise this is a board for us nerds to look up statistics and newspaper articles and defend to the death our allegiances to clubs in a sport we actually know feck all about!?

ShooterSF

ScienceNerd wrote: »

I learned to play in goal on the concrete in the street My knees are a maze of scars

And I play primarily on astro now, which isn't particularly easy on them either

When playing in goals on astro I always wear track bottoms. Better them destroyed than me

Frisbee

shoutman wrote: »

Whats the point of going through the pain when you don't need to. Grazed knees aren't going to make you any better at the game.

Of course they don't make you a better player.
But what's the point in going out and buying one of those ridiculously expensive pairs of under-tights yokes when they'll rip at the knee anyway after a few slides.

Your better off just getting on with it tbf

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Good god almighty.

Go out on a pitch with any vaseline on you, tights, or whatever else, and you'll get a kicking.

Better grazed knees and arse cheeks than a kicking imo.

Jesus christ, talk about the sanitization of the game.

Grow a pair OP, just grow a pair.