My 5 year old daughter is a white belt in an American karate school. She is been studying for about a month. She was partnered up with another white belt for pad work tonight. This boy is 4 and small. She was punching the bag and he was losing his balance due to not holding the bag properly. The instructor comes over and asks my daughter to hold the pad and he kneels down and power punches it as if an adult was holding it knocking her on her rear and back hard. Proceeds to tell her she needs to control her punches power when smaller people are holding the pads. Then he goes over and tries teach the 4 year old how to hold the pad. Now, Im a parent that believes she will have to take some bumps and bruises along her journey, but I was sitting there watching this about as mad as a Father could be, but didnt interfere because my daughter wasnt injured I would like to hear some opinions from instructors on this incident. Thank you.
