When you get a good bunch of juniors!

[DoctorQui]

I do love it when you get a great bunch of juniors who want to be in training rather than being forced into it by parents.

I take my step daughter who I honestly believed wouldn't last a month without giving up. It is now 9 months later, she is working toward her 4th Kyu with no sign of abatement. I also take two kids from accross the street. The lad was indifferent anf the girl (his sister) only went because of my step daughter. They have now just passed their 1st grading and are chomping at the bit! They knock on the door every day 'Is it training tonite'!

I love it!

[evergrey]

Awesome when you have students who really want to be there, and really appreciate it!

[bushido_man96]

That is really great! I am waiting for when my kids get interested in it enough to want to do it on their own, as opposed to force them. I think my middle son might be willing to give Aikido a try, but Wrestling season is rolling around, and he really enjoys that.

As an instructor, I love seeing a group of juniors that are pumped to be in class, and really listen well to corrections and do their best to achieve their best.

[sensei8]

I do love it when you get a great bunch of juniors who want to be in training rather than being forced into it by parents.

I take my step daughter who I honestly believed wouldn't last a month without giving up. It is now 9 months later, she is working toward her 4th Kyu with no sign of abatement. I also take two kids from accross the street. The lad was indifferent anf the girl (his sister) only went because of my step daughter. They have now just passed their 1st grading and are chomping at the bit! They knock on the door every day 'Is it training tonite'!

I love it!

I love it as well!!

Juniors/Seniors alike, I love it when they're there for themselves and not for their parents/spouse. More efforts are put in their own training by them take responsibility themselves. Every MAist, imho, must be accountable for their own training and in that, heart must be in the training because a student can be quite easily swayed away from the floor by family peer pressure.

[DWx]

It's great, especially when these kids show bucket loads of enthusiasm and can see that 10 years down the line they'll be awesome martial artists.

That is really great! I am waiting for when my kids get interested in it enough to want to do it on their own, as opposed to force them. I think my middle son might be willing to give Aikido a try, but Wrestling season is rolling around, and he really enjoys that.

I actually think that's great that you're not making your son join MA. At our club we see a lot of kids who get signed up by their parents who also train but the kids don't really want to be there.

[DoctorQui]

I actually think that's great that you're not making your son join MA. At our club we see a lot of kids who get signed up by their parents who also train but the kids don't really want to be there.

I agree...my step daughter had to badger me for weeks before I took her because I really thought she would not enjoy it. How wrong was I!

I even catch her training on her own when she thinks noone is watching LOL. When we train at home together using my strike pad, my 2 year old son even gets in on the action and joins in punching and kicking the pad!

[bushido_man96]

It's great, especially when these kids show bucket loads of enthusiasm and can see that 10 years down the line they'll be awesome martial artists.

That is really great! I am waiting for when my kids get interested in it enough to want to do it on their own, as opposed to force them. I think my middle son might be willing to give Aikido a try, but Wrestling season is rolling around, and he really enjoys that.

I actually think that's great that you're not making your son join MA. At our club we see a lot of kids who get signed up by their parents who also train but the kids don't really want to be there.

Thanks, Danielle. Its kind of tough, because I really want to share the MAs with my kids, but I don't want them to feel forced to do it because of me, and then not enjoy it, and put a bad taste in their mouths for the future. I've seen that happen firsthand at my current school, and there are some pretty miserable practitioners there that you can tell most of the time don't want to be there and are not enjoying themselves. I figure they'll come around to it if they get interested enough to. I've at least got a foot in the door with him enjoying Wrestling, and he is already asking when Wrestling starts up again.

[sensei8]

I've four kids, only one should any interest, but that interest has been replaced with newer interests. All of my kids have been around the MA their entire lives, however, they were quite involved in the administrative side of my dojo's, as well at the Hombu.

I've never pushed them to try the MA because they have to want to do the MA, just as I wanted to do the MA whenever I first started. I wanted to learn the MA a lot and had my parents pushed me into it, I would've walked away from it quick.

I would've loved to have had my kid(s) rank out, but I'm at peace about the whole thing.

I wonder if...

Nobuaki Kanazawa Sensei; son of Hirokazu Kanazawa Sensei

OR

Nidaime A. Nakamura Sensei; son of Tadashi Nakamura Kaicho

OR

Gosei Norimi Yamaguchi Sensei, Goshi Hirofumi Yamaguchi Sensei, Gosen Kishio Yamaguchi Sensei, Wakako Yamaguchi Sensei, and Makiko Yamaguchi Sensei; children of Gogen Yamaguchi Sensei

...and the list could go on and on and on...

Were these children of the most notables forced into MA training or did they start learning the MA because they wanted to??

Edited October 8, 2012 by sensei8

[xo-karate]

I have 4 daughters and I did teach them karate for a brief session - maybe one winter season. I think I was not ready for it:)

Now I have a 4 year old granddaughter and I'm waiting to teach her - I'll use Gracies bullyproof program or it's ideas for games.

[DoctorQui]

I wonder if...

Nobuaki Kanazawa Sensei; son of Hirokazu Kanazawa Sensei

OR

Nidaime A. Nakamura Sensei; son of Tadashi Nakamura Kaicho

OR

Gosei Norimi Yamaguchi Sensei, Goshi Hirofumi Yamaguchi Sensei, Gosen Kishio Yamaguchi Sensei, Wakako Yamaguchi Sensei, and Makiko Yamaguchi Sensei; children of Gogen Yamaguchi Sensei

...and the list could go on and on and on...

Were these children of the most notables forced into MA training or did they start learning the MA because they wanted to??

Interesting...I would think that, with oriental children, martial arts, to a degree, is more a way of life than anything else so if your father studied it, you follow suit. I think Japan, China and Okinawa probably invest a lot more in tradition and the spiritual side of life that the West!

Or maybe thats just a sweeping generalisation!

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