Wheelchair Rugby And Its Impact On Sports

A huge part of Australian society and culture is sport, both spectating and participating. Professor Peter Figueroa developed a framework to look at the issues in access, equity and equality in many things but in this report it will be based on these issues in the sport of volleyball. Which in fact is the most popular sport in the world with an estimated 998 million participants in the sport in formal competitions around the globe. (Topendsports.com, 2015).

The movie Murderball, is a documentary about the crazy sport called " quad rugby”. This sport can be very dangerous to most of the players since they are Quadriplegia which means most of the players are wheel chair bounded and have partial or total loss of use of all their limbs and torso. That doesn't stop the players who strive for the intensity, and thrill of the game of rugby. The movie goes into detail about how the main characters became quadriplegic, some were born with an illness, other became quadriplegic from horrible accidents. However, their disability does not stop them from striving to be amazing athletes, and pursuing gold medal in the Olympics.

As the nation’s gender inequality continues to diminish, things like sports stereotypes, and labour force conflict cannot be understood without understanding the term of identity. Identity work is explained by Schwalbe and Mason-Schrock in 1996 as “anything people do, individually or collectively, to give meaning to themselves or others” (as cited in Ezzell, 2009, p. 1). I propose to examine inequality based on gender identity and in depth the process of stereotype issues, - how people construct stereotypes in gender inequality in the context of sport- among women Rugby. The academic literatures are based on gender identity/ inequality, where it provides many examples of individuals deflecting the norms “by ... creat[ing] a unique identity as heterosexy-fit— simultaneously tough, heterosexual, and conventionally attractive” (Ezzell, 2009, p. 14). With the intention of deflecting/ creating an exception to these norms, it only creates greater issues as not only does society view them in a certain way, but also the player themselves. The overarching goal of the proposal is to address the social issue and understand why society to this date gives harsh views towards women’s rugby with a common stereotypical view. As an illustration the views were described by Ezzell (2009) who conducted a personal communication with some female rugby players who stated that other views them as: “scary, butch lesbians,” “she-males,” “he-shes,” “lesbian man-beasts,” and “butch,

Joe Soares archive footage has also been included in the documentary which displays his achievements in Quad Rugby .The lighting shows the medals and trophies he won. The sound track starts to change as we see his achievements go pass. The framing shows scenes of Mark Zupan and Joe Soares life as being busy and worth while living .The director shows Mark and Joe times that they have experienced throughout their quadriplegic life. They express their emotion which shows us how they feel about their condition and how they live their life .It has positioned me to feel that Joe and Mark are not progressing in life but as my views changed. Their life as a quadriplegic are not as bad as I thought it would be.

Within this assignment I will be exploring the influence of concussion within KS3 rugby and discuss the signs and symptoms it has on young athletes and the impact it has on their return to physical activity.

Football is known as the most popular sport in America. But, little people know about the “Silent Killer.” Football injuries are all too common, one of which being Spinal Cord Injuries. Nobody understands how devastating Spinal Cord Injuries can actually be, until it’s too late.

Women’s Rugby League in Australia constantly growing, and the New South Wales Rugby League took notice after the NSW team broke a 17-year-drought against Queensland earlier in the year, by setting a five year pathway plan to increase participation levels and equality in sport.

The major theme of this book consisted of playing conditions, political and economic climates and commercialization of a product that gained popularity through a “firsts” in the sport. Frank

Analysing the effects, recovery and prevention assist in determining the extent of what the injury does to individuals participating in the popular well-known sport.

Murderball was a movie made back in the early 2000 about the USA team men’s quadriplegias rugby team and former teammate Joe Soares coaching the Canada team. The movie also focused on a few players from the USA team but mainly it focused on Mark Zupan. The movie follows around team, showing how they became a quadriplegias, some did riding dirt bikes, and some were just bore with disability. The movie also shows new people who had just been in an accident and now don’t have function off all body parts. Shows how some of the rehabilitation is to get into normal living again.

The first video I watched was entitled “Murderball”, which documented the lives of the members on the United States wheelchair rugby team. It began with an introduction of each of the players and the stories of how they became quadriplegics. During these introductions, the players also talked about the stigma that comes along with their handicap and how able-bodied individuals treat/talk to them. The video then shows the team playing in the world championship for wheelchair rugby against several other countries but particularly the U.S.’s rival, Canada. Watching this video further addresses the difference between being impaired and handicapped. These individuals do not consider themselves handicapped but see that they have an impairment that

The medical policy ensures all players are treated with equal respect when it comes to personal health conditions, making each player confident enough to play rugby well equipped to handle their condition without the need to take excessive drugs which may cause extra harm.

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) was founded in 1912, and began to control aspects of what gets to be in an official sports event. The IAAF protects the athletes from faulty equipment to doping opponents. However, in more recent years; the IAAF has “protected” the able-bodied athletes from amputee athletes.Circumstances that meet this criteria include; Oscar Pistorius, and Markus Rehm (Greenemeier). Both athletes faced similar situations dealing with disqualification due to presumed advantageous prosthetics and were inevitably denied. However, Pistorius appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) which found that the evidence the IAAF had presented was inconclusive. The battle between both parties, their

Introduction: this issue analysis is examining the use of boosting in spinal injury Paralympians and how this is thought to be dangerous to the individual that uses this as a technique of gaining an advantage over other players.

Before this presentation, I never quite understood the technicalities of the game. I had never watched wheelchair basketball before, so I always wondered “How does one push a wheel chair straight with one arm and dribble a ball simultaneously?” Well, turns out, not-so-surprisingly, the dribbling rules are the thing that makes wheelchair basketball most different from normal basketball. In wheel chair basketball, the person in possession of the ball is allowed three pushes of their wheel chair before he or she must pass the ball off to another player or dribble again. I felt this was a crucial bit of information I had always missed and it all made a little more sense after I learned this.