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kids and martial arts?
EightBySix:
My 9 yr old does contact sparring. No head shots though. :banghead:
Xiaou2:
I suggest a tiered program:
1) Taekwando :Merely for the advanced kicking, flexibility, internal toughening, and endurance levels. Poor hand tactics however... and purely based in sport. Better kicking ability than
typical Karate classes. Stay in this art for only maybe 2yrs tops.
2) Akido :My friends kids took it, young boy & younger girl, and they love it.
Has plenty of things to keep busy with: Sensitivity training, locks, throws, weapons, and more.
Much more advanced than the typical watered down sport arts... However, not every kid
has the patience/focus level at certain ages for this.
Unlike Karate (and or some other "Hard-Arts") ... where the larger person has a greater advantage... Akido teaches how to flow around brute force, and use it against that person.
3) Wing Chun :In their teens... for the very advanced stuff. Similar to Akido with its use of
flowing.. but is a much more aggressive and advanced art. Techniques are very precise,
and require a lot more dedication and focus to master them. Very combat effective in
only a few years time.
Wushu might also be a fun consideration for the younger set. However, as cool as Wushu
can be... it no longer is based on real martial arts. Its more or less advanced acrobatics now.
I reccomend not staying too many years in the basic arts. They basically just repeat the
same things over and over again. While its good to get a solid foundation, too much is
simply redundant, and you could be spending efforts on learning more techniques and skill
sets in other arts instead.
SavannahLion:
--- Quote from: mpm32 on October 28, 2009, 01:50:34 pm ---I don't know how much karate will help in a real fight. In my brawling days I had no problem with several that said they were black belts. - Could have been BSing though.
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Because most of them are ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow--- little ---Bad words, bad words, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when saint censors you?---. I thought for a long time that it was the dojo threatening to kick them out if they ever fought someone that wasn't in the, "art." But after leaving one of the little marshmallow ---punks--- inside a soda machine (long story) I figured it was something more. I got my first real clue when I saw two kids from a different school truly wailing on each other the following year. Yeah, they were both kicked out of both schools for the fight, but man, what a fight! A no holds barred fight between 18 year olds is a sight to see. >:D
I finally got to talking to someone who owns a school that really clued me in that the schools aren't created equal. I always figured a discipline from one school is about the same as the same discipline from another school, right? Heh, shows what I know. ;D
So in a rare moment. How does one know the school is teaching the kids properly? I'm not interested in shelling out cash to a school willing to "advance" someone just because they pay the money. I understand it's a good idea to let the kid pick the school, but if (s)he picks a school that does a lot of cracker eating, it's kind of pointless to send them. ???
EightBySix:
There's another angle here. Whether or not a kid finds him/herself needing to use their skills, the fact that they could if they needed to gives them a confidence. I think this kind of confidence means they are less likely to be bullied/picked on in the first place.
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: EightBySix on October 29, 2009, 06:20:30 am ---There's another angle here. Whether or not a kid finds him/herself needing to use their skills, the fact that they could if they needed to gives them a confidence. I think this kind of confidence means they are less likely to be bullied/picked on in the first place.
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Possibly. But i couldn't fight my way out of a wet paper bag, and i virtually never got bullied or picked on in school. In real life I'm a below the radar kinda guy.
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