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wow. that's just awful.
being very early in camp, I wonder if it was an exertion thing.
I remember even in Junior B try-out camps they used to bag skate you right off the start, and keep going until someone puked. That person was cut immediately, and then the camp could commence. Didn't seem incredibly healthy thing to do, but it seemed to be a popular tradition.
wow. that's just awful.
being very early in camp, I wonder if it was an exertion thing.
I remember even in Junior B try-out camps they used to bag skate you right off the start, and keep going until someone puked. That person was cut immediately, and then the camp could commence. Didn't seem incredibly healthy thing to do, but it seemed to be a popular tradition.
I hope that's not what happened too. But if it is then perhaps that method will change. It doesn't seem healthy at all. I honestly don't think I could puke as a result of that kind of skate no matter how hard it got and no matter how out of shape I happened to be. I think all sorts of other things would go wrong but I'm not really a puker so I don't know how something like that would end for me if someone else didn't puke before I got to my limit.
yeah, i don't think fitness/endurance testing was the main goal for that tradition.
it was a sacrificial lamb for the coaches to let everyone know that they meant business.
pretty barbaric, but that's the way it was.
I'm pretty certain this was cardiomyopathy...and it's not really on the coaches. It's a silent killer because the first sign of having it is death. There's no warning signs, just collapse. Over exertion will trigger it, but it could be something as simple as a few sprints that does it.