Kids and martial arts

[Ben Martin]

Having been on the receiving end as well as seeing first hand I can tell you that 7 and 8 years can hit and kick with a tremendous amount of force.

Ha yeah kids are pretty tough. i remember when my ex's lil boy whos 2 and a half axed kicked me in my eye when i was lying on the floor, that really hurt and he could pack a punch too.

as far as forcing children to do martial arts which someone in this thread mentioned i personally think its a good idea and i will be doing the same to my children even if they don't like it. its the same with school you get some children who love it and some who hate it but as adults we know better so we make it the law that all children have to go to school. its not the law to send children to MA but its a damn good idea. as well as keeping them fit they lean how to defend themselves and they learn disipline(which i know needs to be started at home) and to control their anger so if someone starts a fight or calls them names they can learn to ignore it and will the battle with out it becoming physical. though saying that it will not always happen as they are children but you are setting the foundation for that kind of thought. also if they stick at it they will be more likely to no do drugs and get influinced by the wrong people when they are teenages if MA has become such a big part of their life. i know my mum got me in to MA to stop me from smoking drugs getting arrested and hanging about with the wrong peole and it has worked i have transformed in the last 2 years.

so children in MA is a great thing even if they like it or not.

edit sorry for all the bad spelling but im to lazy to change it.

[Muaythaiboxer]

i think its great when kids do MA but sadly when makeing schools kid frendly many of them became mcdojos.

also i have been asked by parents to teach there kids MA (i refused) because i dont think im qualifyed but i dont see many kids where i train because we are pretty hard core.

[jay46]

Having been on the receiving end as well as seeing first hand I can tell you that 7 and 8 years can hit and kick with a tremendous amount of force.

Ha yeah kids are pretty tough. i remember when my ex's lil boy whos 2 and a half axed kicked me in my eye when i was lying on the floor, that really hurt and he could pack a punch too.

as far as forcing children to do martial arts which someone in this thread mentioned i personally think its a good idea and i will be doing the same to my children even if they don't like it. its the same with school you get some children who love it and some who hate it but as adults we know better so we make it the law that all children have to go to school. its not the law to send children to MA but its a damn good idea. as well as keeping them fit they lean how to defend themselves and they learn disipline(which i know needs to be started at home) and to control their anger so if someone starts a fight or calls them names they can learn to ignore it and will the battle with out it becoming physical. though saying that it will not always happen as they are children but you are setting the foundation for that kind of thought. also if they stick at it they will be more likely to no do drugs and get influinced by the wrong people when they are teenages if MA has become such a big part of their life. i know my mum got me in to MA to stop me from smoking drugs getting arrested and hanging about with the wrong peole and it has worked i have transformed in the last 2 years.

so children in MA is a great thing even if they like it or not.

edit sorry for all the bad spelling but im to lazy to change it.

Regarding forcing kids:

My son was chomping at the bit to start karate since age 5 (thanks to Power Rangers). Our senei does not take kids until they are at least in 1st grade (around 7). When my son started we kind of half heartly forced his older sister (10 at the time) to go too. We figured it would help with coordination and self confidence (both are small for there age). Two years later they are still enjoying it immensely. It seems that they have both found their "sport" although we think of it as more art than sport.

My wife and I have told them that we are not going to allow them to quit when it gets harder. They have come to accept that. That's something that I wish my parents had done 40 years ago when I tried out TSK (or whatever the McDojo was) for a while.