Pushing to go to a backyard tackle game in a global sport

“Ready already?” call to the host.

Thumbs later and moments later, two enthusiastic men – with no protection gear – running full of each other before they fight, the irreversible sound of flesh and bone bones.

The crowd explodes a collective roar, some compliments, others win.

This is the moment they wait – and it is exactly enabled to Adrenaline at the Run Stor Championship League to help bring “the brethren of the world, the new collision with the world.

This is a subu version of a game of a room that comes from the backyards and schools in Australia and New Zealand – which is the Pacific community of Islaland.

A person carrying a ball should “run straight up” in the defender, which is also running to them: they are not allowed to duck, tackler flow.

Ang mga video sa dula bag-ohay lang nga nawala, ug ang mga magtutukod sa run nga kini liga sa pag-agay sa interes – nakasulti sila sa daghang mga fans nga mga tag-iya sa online, ug nakadani sila sa daghang mga fans nga mga fans, ug nakadani sa daghang mga fans sa telepono, nga nakakuha sila sa daghang mga fans nga nagpangita, ug nakadani sila sa daghang mga fans, ug nakadani sila sa daghang mga fans, ug nakadani sa daghang mga Name competition, and even inspired named competitions.

They made jourists in Melbourne and Auckland, and Saturday the other occurred in a Dubai Arena, the winner took the prize of $ 200,000 (£ 98,000). Next to their agenda, an UK and US expansion.

But Groundswell in support for the league is more united in critical voices. Medical experts and sport sports and health games are in the game – which also becomes more social media to flow, accused of claiming a life.

“It’s like shaking a child,” said Peter Satterthwaite, whose teenager’s nephew died after being copied by a party.

The purpose of the game is simple: can be the “reigning” person, as a panel of three judges.

Two of the seven league colleagues, Brandon Taua’a and Stephen Hancock, tell the BBC they remember playing the game in Melbourne.

“I used to ‘run straight up’ in Brandon all the time,” Hancock said, making fun of the pair always trying to change each other.

None of that week, if eight finalists compete for the giant cash prize in the United Arab Emirates.

Hancock runs it’s a “skill game” – “(it’s) all about footwork” – but there is no denial of its violent nature.

A quick scrolls on the League social media accounts showed a lot of easy blasts of videos, all honoring the explosive action of two men who collided.

In other videos surrounding from events, many competitors have fallen and need immediate medical attention.

Taua’a recognizes the sport with risks, but says the league has safety protocols to minimize it.

Competitors are screened, undergoing medical evaluations – such as blood tests and a physical examination – and they also have to send a new video to themselves playing in a play with a play. Medical staff also on events paths.

“There is an element of disaster with surf, with boxing, and more sports,” Taua’a will argue.

For Champ Betham – who won $ 20,000 early in Auckland’s competition and shot for Dubai title on Saturday.

“It’s a big blessing of a whole heap of us tasting and winning 20k or anything for an hour to work,” he told the radio in New Zealand at the time.

“We have to pay some debts and stocks in frids and closets, eating for our little children, especially in the economy and things like this in New Zealand.” There is nothing cheap today. “

Money involved, for a league with about six months, astonishing. With the Prize Fund, travel expenses and competitors accommodation. A 1,600-seat arena has been booked. The league has a slick social social media account, a PR representative, and a set of promotors – including stars in antipodean sports.

Finance initial finance is defined only as “a group of local investors who believe in the product”, but informed the league with plainturn statforms such as primary markets as in Australia and UK.

There are also continued talks with potential US investors, including a contact involved in American Podcaster and UFC Heavyweight Joe Rogan, which helps Taua’a “the League of the US.

They need big housing to match their ambitions for competition, they will argue more than a flying social media style.

“It can be slow in a sport that can sit (in a class) with MMA and Boxing,” Hancock said.

But as focuses on Taua’a and Hancock in the future ambitions of the competition, more and more voices asked the salvation.

“They can also smoke as a legitimate sport,” says neuroscicicicicicistist Alan Pearce.

Talking to BBC from New Zealand City at Palmerston North, Peter Satterthwaite is not fair.

“It’s not a sport,” he said. This is “a dangerous activity” intended purely “to hurt the person in front of you”.

Her 19-year-old nephew Ryan celebrates the 21st birthday with friends in a local park when they decided to try their social feeds.

Ryan makes two tackles. Neither he nor his friend fell or fought with the heads. But as he walked, he told his couples that he did not feel well, his uncle explained.

“(Ryan) was united for a little, then he lay down and his eyes were just around his head.”

Hospital friends took him to which doctors should “cut a large fragment from his skull” to relieve the pressure caused by the utter of the brain, the satterthwaite said.

“I saw him in the ventilator, his chest rising as he was breathing, and it was like ‘wake up! Open your eyes’.”

On Monday night, only one day after he played with his spouse, Ryan’s life supported in a hospital room full of loved ones.

“It’s just an innocent combat,” Ryan’s uncle says, “And it shows you how weak life is and how you can break your brain.”

It runs it says it understands the dangers of contact sports and seriously safe. Weeks after Ryan’s death, the league posted a video that says the game “is not for the yard, not for the road”.

“Don’t try it at home,” they said.

But satterthwaite doubts that warning has a lot of effect.

“I don’t think there’s a game in the world that people don’t do at the beach, or in their yard, or in the park.”

Not only are the physical effects that are worried about Shenei Pania.

As a Samoa growing in Australia, he often saw schools playing the game as a little fun. But the mental health mental is fearing it strengthens “a version of masculine where silence is strength, and violence proof of pride”.

“It sends a dangerous message to young men that their value is based on how much their illness is. That if you are not strong, you don’t belong.”

And the league trial to do this is a useful spectator spectator against the values ​​of the majority of the Pacific Islander community, says Penaia.

“We are taught to look at each other … and make decisions to serve more of ourselves.”

Their concerns echoed with a package of concussion experts and playing numbers.

For more than a decade, the world of high-op effects of sports indicate safety measures while researching brain injuries develop.

Official bodies including Rugby Australia, New Zealand Rugby warned people who do not participate, with Prime Minister in New Zealand weighing a “mute to do”.

Neuroscienecist Pearce argues to grow “the most violent aspects of our established sports”, while salvation protocols are very small in reducing any risk. Blood tests and physical examinations cannot predict brain injury, and disaster injury can occur even when no head hit, he said.

“I can’t see what runs 25km an hour straight to each other without stopping safe,” he told the BBC. “That’s just as simple.”

There is a risk of instant, Dr Pearce said, delayed with brain injuries such as Ryan Satterthwage’s, and severe encephalopaite woods can lead to cognitive disabilities, dementia, depression.

“(They) use a collision as the amount of entertainment, which is, thus, commercial concrete,” he concluded.

But a spokesman for the league – arguing it is “not about masculine” but “strength and skill” – less concerned with their critics.

Taua’a says what happens to their competitions “less different” when you see on television rugby games, and – in many games played in the backyards around the world.

“It’s new for viewers and can take some time for them to get used to what we’re tied together.”