Children's Programs

**Deadpan Scientist** · Posted On: 3/09/2003 8:07pm

I'm teaching SS to a small club, and I started aikido about 6 months ago. The aikido instruction is good, but doesn't really jive well with my "Predator training" from san soo. I understand why they do what they do, but I don't agree with their methods. In addition, I've already done everything in aikido in san soo. In other words, now instead of punching kicking, locking, and throwing, I just lock and throw.

**Omen Stone** · Posted On: 3/09/2003 8:10pm

this I wish I had that advantage. But the past is the past and I missed my chance to take up martial arts when I was little.

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Edited by - Omen Stone on March 09 2003 20:12:33

**PizDoff** · Posted On: 3/09/2003 8:13pm

"We never had games in my after school class."
awwwww....

"I understand why they do what they do"
i understand aikido is a bit more "peaceful"
wouldn't jive well with my personal style and agression either

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I attack flurriously!
It smells like teen spirit.

**PizDoff** · Posted On: 3/09/2003 8:15pm

anyways, back on topic

my center teaches wushu
maybe 70% of those students are kids, i think
but can kids really handle something so serious as fighting?

i think teaching them felxibility confidence, some basic moves are alright then they need to mature into adults later, i think brown belt is the highest a student can get there (i take WC not acrobatics) and the high level students are all teens....

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I attack flurriously!
It smells like teen spirit.

**Deadpan Scientist** · Posted On: 3/09/2003 8:23pm

I think they (at least some) can, if the teacher can explain the gravity of fighting, and that using what they know can result _____

**Vargas** · Posted On: 3/10/2003 3:03am

My school's philosophy is that middle/jr/high school wrestling is an appropriate martial art for kids. After they turn 18, then they're ready for submissions, striking and vale tudo. Maybe some schools have better luck with kids, but it seems like more trouble than it's worth to me. Of course, I waited until I was 30 before I learned anything besides wrestling, so go figure.

"Go cry about it Vargas. Aren't you late for your shift at McDonald's?"