{"id":44275,"date":"2013-03-25T13:02:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T13:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=44275"},"modified":"2013-03-25T13:02:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T13:02:40","slug":"rugby-is-the-toughest-sport-professional-forwards-put-in-300-collisions-per-match-a-quarter-of-which-having-a-g-force-greater-than-8-full-article-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/rugby-is-the-toughest-sport-professional-forwards-put-in-300-collisions-per-match-a-quarter-of-which-having-a-g-force-greater-than-8-full-article-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby Is The Toughest Sport: Professional Forwards Put in 300 Collisions Per Match A quarter of Which Having A G-Force Greater than 8! Full article HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Backs will be involved in about 120 impacts (or collisions, eg. a tackle, ruck\/maul or hitting the ground) per match. Unsurprisingly, forwards win this particular battle with roughly 300 per match, with on average a quarter having a g-force greater than 8 (the most extreme roller-coaster in the world pulls about 6.3g!). Oddly enough, 65% of such impacts came in the second half, but perhaps that is due to teams defending leads and play being more continuous&#8230;&#8230;.. for the full article CLICK <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesouthafrican.com\/sport\/rugby-the-toughest-team-sport.htm\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backs will be involved in about 120 impacts (or collisions, eg. a tackle, ruck\/maul or hitting the ground) per match. Unsurprisingly, forwards win this particular battle with roughly 300 per match, with on average a quarter having a g-force greater than 8 (the most extreme roller-coaster in the world pulls about 6.3g!). Oddly enough, 65% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3959,5694,11891],"class_list":["post-44275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ulster-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sport","tag-toughest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44277,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44275\/revisions\/44277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}