Heartbeats not Headlines.
Written by Jerry Fife
Opinion | Athletic Safety They Didn’t Want a Law Every law named after a child who died in sports is a monument to our failure to act before they died. Jerry D. Fife, M.Ed. | COO & Co-Founder, Athletic Safety Organization dba ProTect Athletics | August 31, 2026 Zackery Lystedt was 13 years old when … Continue reading “They Didn’t Want a Law”
Written by Jerry Fife
Athletic Safety Athletics is spending billions at the bottom of the safety ladder while ignoring everything above it. JF Jerry D. Fife, M.Ed. COO & Co-Founder, Athletic Safety Organization · August 2026 This week, Science magazine published a deep-dive on the evolution of the modern football helmet. “Inside the quest to make a safer football … Continue reading “The Upside-Down Pyramid”
Written by Jerry Fife
Series Note: In our companion article “The Illusion of Armor: When Safety Equipment Becomes the Hazard”, we established why Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is the final and most vulnerable layer of risk management, and how relying on gear creates a false sense of invulnerability while dampening the body’s natural sensory feedback. Here, we apply that … Continue reading “Don’t Believe the Hype”
