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Tua interview on Up & Adams, will be doing judo every Friday. Bonus other Tua interviews today added.

djphinfan said:
Ok, can you get into the class already and do it more than once a week..

Where are the workout videos at the gym working in your body

I’m sorry it’s time to start both body projects cause he absolutely needs both

Sorry for the rant but it’s been almost two months since he’s done anything
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I think the Dolphins are asking him to take a slight break for a bit to rest from anything too physical so that he can finally be 100% done with this concussion. I am sure he will be doing this very soon, if not already doing it.
 
I think the most interesting detail to come from these interviews was Tua confirming that the Dolphins never even put him in the “protocol” until the season was over. Meaning they just decided he was not going to play again this season, regardless of his actual health or lack of health.
 
Sounds like it should help for sure but the mere fact that he's trying to improve on this is reassuring in itself.

Hopefully the OL finds some magic (and health) this year as well.
 
Tua all the haters said:
I love Tua and I hope he comes back and balls out, and that he is able to stay as health as he can and have a long career and a good life. It makes me a little worried to watch him speak in these interviews. He seems just slightly less sharp than before in his speech and his mannerisms. He looks just slightly out of it, and like he struggles a little to find his words. I hope I'm just overthinking it, but it's been on my mind for the last couple months whenever he speaks at pressers or any of these interviews.
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Have you a new born at home?
 
I actually mentioned judo a while ago. Glad he's doing it.

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Hope he doesn't get a concussion learning how not to get concussions. I just want a competent backup QB:
 
Kyndig said:
Slapping the ground to help absorb some of the impact in conjunction with tucking your head will help a lot. You can also use your feet in a similar way but that’s more if you are being flipped over.
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It's just not something you're going to do while holding a football.
 
GRYPHONK said:
You said it in a constructive way, which I could not. But I'm being petty about this based on my 12+ years experience utilizing special training. In fairness, mine is in Krav Maga and Kempo and not Judo etc. But again, one of the first things you learn is how to fall. Which is technically different then learning to tuck the chin which is involved. So I'm being petty and LITERAL with my take on learning to fall won't be effective

At the end of the day that is what I was implying. The tucking chin helps on plays like the Milano late hit in that first Buffalo game.

It's not learning how to fall really.

So in that sense it could help. But we're talking about a minimal amount of hits or tackles where that will help. Quite honestly the only hit that would have truly helped was the one where people still debate whether he had a concussion or not against Buffalo. Not so much against the Bengals and Packers.

But learning to tuck your chin doesn't require special martial arts training.

If they focus SOLELY on that, it could be effective
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I agree that he could have protected himself from that Milano late hit with better training. But it's not so much that tucking you're chin requires special training, it's about the repetitions. In striking arts you practice falls a little as part of you're overall art. In judo, it's constant. It's part of every drill. Most classes I've been to you spend the first 10+ minutes of every class doing rolls across the floor as your warm-up. (This after the first few weeks where you basically do it all class). Then you'll move on to whatever throws or techniques you're learning that day where you'll end up being thrown another 50-100 times in a class. All those repetitions just makes it second nature. I firmly believe that due to that ingrained training I've escaped several injuries from falls or wrecks on bikes and motorcycles over the years. That being said, it didn't prevent me from a couple of separated shoulder injuries while playing football. In both of those injuries I ended up driven into the ground by two or more players. My training didn't protect me b/c football falls aren't always the same as falls in other activities.
 
Kyndig said:
He’s not always holding the football when it happens
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He may throw it away, probably an ill-advised throw away if it's that late that he's still being thrown down, but regardless, slapping out is not something you're likely to do while being tackled playing football.
 
rafael said:
He may throw it away, probably an ill-advised throw away if it's that late that he's still being thrown down, but regardless, slapping out is not something you're likely to do while being tackled playing football.
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I disagree. There may be some instances where he can’t, but many others where he could IMHO

There‘s also a lot more to falling than the slap whether it’s sideways, backwards, forwards, whatever. I think it’s something that will reduce his risk of concussions, as falling is an art, and is something that when perfected can help him.

There are instances where others will fall on top of him and prevent him from doing certain things, but in general, learning how to fall from a combat sport like Judo or jujitsu should reduce his risk When it comes to concussions.
 
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Kyndig said:
I disagree. There may be some instances where he can’t, but many others where he could IMHO
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Okay. There are many NFL players who have practiced various martial arts over the years. Feel free to point it out the next time you see an NFL player slap out when falling during a tackle. It may have happened, but I can't recall seeing that in 40+ years of watching/playing/coaching/scouting football.
 
rafael said:
Okay. There are many NFL players who have practiced various martial arts over the years. Feel free to point it out the next time you see an NFL player slap out when falling during a tackle. It may have happened, but I can't recall seeing that in 40+ years of watching/playing/coaching/scouting football.
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The defense wouldn’t likely do it as they are the ones usually hitting and tackling and aren’t used to being the ones tackled. A running back wouldn’t do it as they usually have two hands on the ball and probably fall forward more than backwards, and a receiver or a tight end wouldn’t do it as they are catching the ball and also usually have two hands on the ball except for the occasional one handed catch.

The QB is really the only position where you might see this as they often get hit and fall backwards without the ball. So the real question, is how many Quarterbacks have studied falling from Judo or Jujitsu or even aikido to prevent concussions. I’d imagine not very many. We‘ll see in any case…
 
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