Blood And Guts As Rites Of Passage -- Mixed Martial Arts For Kiddies (Trees And Things)

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DEMachina: Re: Blood And Guts As Rites Of Passage -- Mixed Ma

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:28:11 EST

You make good points, definitely. I think you just have more faith in the training these kids get than I do; it all depends on what they're taught (and how well).

HidingFromGoro: Re: Blood And Guts As Rites Of Passage -- Mixed Ma

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:44:47 EST

I worry more about kids thinking they can fight when they can't necessarily.

Again, having done both MMA-type sports and traditional martial arts for a number of years, I still think having the kid doing submission fighting is a solution to this

JimmyHavok: Re: Blood And Guts As Rites Of Passage -- Mixed Ma

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:10:54 EST

what happens when he gets pissed at and decides to start something with an 18-year-old who has 80 pounds on him?

He deserves the same thing he would get if he didn't have MMA training: a little punching around.

I'd say some of the value

thefadd: Re: Blood And Guts As Rites Of Passage -- Mixed Ma

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:53:12 EST

If one of them really does have to defend themselves, they're going to be limited by what the tournament rules say you can and can't do. So it takes a serious level of self-control to be able to separate the cage from a real-life fight, and I wouldn't

T Slothrop: Re: Irvin Mainway Lives!

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:17:14 EST
I know this comment is a couple of days old so no one is likely to see it, but if yer gonna talk about Mr. Mainway, you gotta talk about his highest achievement: the "Johnny Human Torch" Halloween costume - oily rags and a butane lighter.
Hours... errr

DEMachina: Re: Blood And Guts As Rites Of Passage -- Mixed Ma

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:40:44 EST
I agree that it's stupid to single this sport out because of possible injury (as people have mentioned, football et. al. are probably almost as bad).
I worry more about kids thinking they can fight when they can't necessarily. The martial arts use

Lou: Somewhere in a prison near you

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:59:09 EST
Michael Vick sits pondering his fate. He thinks...my football career is over...they took my kennel away. What will I do?
Suddenly, his eye falls on a magazine on a table in the day room. What's this? Children Involved in Ultimate

JimmyHavok: Re: Self Defense

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:21:34 EST
I was kind of dismissive of kata until I noticed that I was using the moves in sparring without thinking about it.

JimmyHavok: Re: Sweet Science?

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:19:45 EST
Thanks for the first-person account, I'd just googled up "youth boxing" for the same purpose.

JimmyHavok: Re: More sportdanger!

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:14:59 EST
If you're good at polo, you don't need money. My friend's father had two lines of work: marrying rich, and playing polo. He was good enough that one of the members of a team that wanted him would give him a do-nothing job for being on the team.

thefadd: Re: More sportdanger!

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:37:58 EST
Try buzkashi. Just like polo but for the (Afghan) masses!

pO157: Re: More sportdanger!

Wed, 9 Apr 2008 19:54:13 EST
As is Polo, probably. I always wanted to play it as a kid. But I read a website on the sport recently where they prominently listed the average income of those who participate in it.
I'll pass.

Steve Urkel: Re: This is stupid.

Wed, 9 Apr 2008 15:15:53 EST
That's an accurate description of the average high school pole vaulter. Even if every high school has a couple, it's still not that many. Even without danger consideratins a lot of schools when I was in high school didn't have it because of the pointlessne

Steve Urkel: More sportdanger!

Wed, 9 Apr 2008 15:10:02 EST
Equestrian is dangerous, too.

Acefantastik: Re: This is stupid.

Wed, 9 Apr 2008 15:08:51 EST
There can't be that many youth pole vaulters (or is there more than you would think?),
Pretty much every high school track team has a pole-vaulter or 7. A list for you:
1. The beefcake who works his pecs all the time and flexes in fr

pO157: Re: This is stupid.

Wed, 9 Apr 2008 14:30:51 EST
Speaking of dangerous sports, I read the other day that high school pole vaulting averages about one death per year. There can't be that many youth pole vaulters (or is there more than you would think?), so it must be one of the most dangerous sports f

Steve Urkel: Re: This is stupid.

Wed, 9 Apr 2008 14:20:55 EST
I'm not a big fan of pushing really young kids into any organized sport. As far as martial arts goes, if you are going to have 10 year olds doing it I think it's safer for kids to stick with grappling based ones only until they are in high school.
Speak

pO157: Re: This is stupid.

Wed, 9 Apr 2008 06:38:09 EST
This isn't limited to the under-18 group. I have a cousin who is getting a ginormous academic scholarship to attend an Ivy. He signed up for their D-I wrestling team, because he enjoys it. I went to one meet and it made me... uncomfortable. I really didn't

HidingFromGoro: Self Defense

Wed, 9 Apr 2008 00:57:02 EST
Another thing I forgot to mention is that MMA gyms can actually be better for kids than your run-of-the-mill strip mall karate class, because there is no focus on bullshit "self-defense" secnarios. I've trained in my fair share of strip-mall belt mil

HidingFromGoro: Sweet Science?

Wed, 9 Apr 2008 00:29:14 EST
No mention of boxing by the Missouri people. I'd be more concerned with Golden Gloves type programs if I was really worried about dangerous sports. I used to box, and now do shootwrestling (similar to MMA, or no-gi with some MT and boxing) and

port1080: Re: This is stupid.

Tue, 8 Apr 2008 19:22:19 EST
Indeed - I played high school football and we had some pretty nasty injuries, despite appropriate padding and whatnot. I only played for two years, but I saw some limbs bent at disturbingly unnatural angles (or, even more disturbingly, saw shin bones with

MayorBob: Irvin Mainway Lives!

Tue, 8 Apr 2008 18:58:17 EST
At least his spirit lives on in Nathan Orand, organizing ultimate fighting leagues for toddlers instead of shilling "Big Bag O' Glass" on SNL. Looking at that video from the Toda

pO157: This is stupid.

Tue, 8 Apr 2008 18:36:23 EST
You may ask "Which group are you castigating? The lawmakers, or the parents who push their kids into this sport?"
Both.
Back when I was an EMT, our town used to host some regional martial arts competition, and seeing some of these younger kids and te