https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nNxkNiOODM
Bandy keeper in the 90s before they moved to bigger gloves must have been ****ing painful and dangerous. Ball is nearly impossible to see, hard as hell, cold, the shots came in 160 km/h.
Another one: gymnastics...
Ski jumping / ski flying is perhaps in the opposite category... "surprisingly safe sports". Sure looks dangerous though, whenever I watch it (... not that often) I wonder how they are not all dead, you would imagine that if they are doing this shit 20 times a day in training they would **** up...