{"id":150563,"date":"2025-11-24T03:42:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/150563\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T03:42:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:42:04","slug":"run-it-straight-collision-leaves-both-participants-unconscious-in-utah-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/150563\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Run it straight\u2019 collision leaves both participants unconscious in Utah trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a recent video, taken from the trial at Zion\u2019s Bank Stadium in Salt Lake City, Utah, two participants can be seen colliding and falling unconscious afterwards.<\/p>\n

The participant in a white shirt falls to the ground motionless with medics attending to him immediately, while the participant in the black shirt looks to go stiff with his arms slightly extended before he is attended to. <\/p>\n

The video has amassed more than 17 million views on Instagram and over half a million likes.<\/p>\n

\" The two participants at an American trial of Runit League appear to knock each other out. Photo \/ Instagram<\/p>\n

The origins of run it straight<\/a> can be traced back to the 1940s when it was invented by head coach of the Oklahoma Sooners college football team, Bud Wilkinson, and dubbed the \u201cOklahoma drill\u201d.<\/p>\n

It would involve two players wearing protective pads and helmets running at each other with the aim of knocking their opponent over.<\/p>\n

NFL and college football teams adopted the drill across the US before it was banned in 2019 in order to reduce concussions. <\/p>\n

Dr Chris Nowinski, CEO of American-based charity the Concussion Legacy Foundation, told the Herald, it was \u201cunfortunate\u201d run it straight has made its way to America.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m concerned that the people who would sign up for this don\u2019t understand what traumatic brain injuries or chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) can do to their lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the kind of idea that could only take root because we have poor awareness of the long-term effects of repeated hits to the head.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vulangi Olosoni, 26, who took home A$200,000 ($219,000) after winning Runit Championship League\u2019s Dubai final in June, apologised for his role in influencing young people to take part in the sport. <\/p>\n

This came after Palmerston North teenager Ryan Satterthwaite died from head injuries sustained<\/a> while participating in a copycat game during a 21st birthday celebration. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt made me think about life. Imagine being so young and you could\u2019ve been something, then that happens to you… It\u2019s pretty rough [and] I feel sorry for the family that is enduring that pain,\u201d Olosoni said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI apologise for that as well… influencing the younger generation to do that type of thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a recent video, taken from the trial at Zion\u2019s Bank Stadium in Salt Lake City, Utah, two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[12642,3246,34094,10039,35140,24392,78,702,70338,7973,111,139,69,193,24366,8145,2022,213,9939,10811,54,67355,9938,4205],"class_list":["post-150563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-appear","tag-both","tag-collision","tag-controversial","tag-debuts","tag-each","tag-in","tag-it","tag-knock","tag-leaves","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-other","tag-participants","tag-run","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-states","tag-straight","tag-trial","tag-unconscious","tag-united","tag-utah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}