Spring break brings ‘Oklahoma drills’ to South Florida’s sandy beaches

FORT LAUDERDALE – What do you get when you may have spring break and St. Patrick’s day at Fort Lauderdale seaside?

You get a bit of little bit of every part.

However there’s one spring break exercise that is catching the eyes of officers at Fort Lauderdale seaside, and that is the Oklahoma drills.

“So principally, it is two folks laying head-to-head, you say “1,2,3 Go!” They rise up and attempt to like — one man has the soccer, they attempt to get by way of them, the opposite man simply tackles them. It is superb,” defined one spring breaker.

In the course of the drills, the one who tackles their opponent to the bottom first wins.

Whereas onlookers say they take pleasure in watching the pleasant sandy scuffles, officers are expressing concern.

“They’re clashing in soccer drill kind manner with head-on collisions with no protecting gear in any way,” stated Garrett Pingol with Fort Lauderdale Fireplace Rescue.

These playful seaside battles also can end in severe penalties.

“We will probably see, you recognize, damaged shoulders, clavicles, accidents to the face, damaged noses, jaws, and even worse, we fear about paralysis. It simply takes one particular person not understanding the impression of slamming one other particular person to the bottom in an unfavorable manner, and now we have now a cervical harm,” stated Pingol.

Whereas no severe accidents have been reported, officers are urging spring breakers to take it straightforward on the subject of the seaside struggle membership.