Even when a coach is watching there's no guarantee that they can prevent something like this happening. It only takes one over-zealous combo out of a moment of annoyance for a big guy to bash a smaller person. Embarrassment of a novice guy getting hit by a girl can be an unpredictable factor sometimes.

The article I read about female body weight was focused on skiing which is not an upright sport either. Since we spend so much time on our toes surely the fact that our body weight tends to be further back behind our toes than for guys must make a smidge of a difference?

More push off the back toes to help keep the centre of gravity foreward perhaps? Which might mean we have to bend our knees a little more so we're not barging in chin first? Does that make any sense to anyone or is this just BS? I guess it could all be irrelevant if doing Scrap's balance exercises since you'd naturally find the best stance anyway.

I agree with what you said about injury prevention Missy but having my experience with this injury I think flexibility plays more of a role than I thought aswell. Tight ITB and groin/hips might be where my issues came from.

I'll check out those links aswell so thanks for those :-)