My utter disdain for traditional martial arts grows by leaps & bounds...

[Katriona1992]

I'm 6', 185 and there's a 14 year old who's bigger and stronger than I am in our adult class. The only thing making him wait another year to join the class would do is make him bigger and meaner and it hurts enough to get hit by him now.

I think these things are best handled on an individual basis. Leaving the kid I just mentioned in the junior class gives him no challenge and is really discouraging to the other kids, who can't make a dent in him. He can truly physically hang with adult brown and black belts, so I see no reason to shut him out because of his birthdate. For that matter I was the same height I am now and about ten pounds lighter when I was 13 years old and first started karate and I never took a kids' class.

That is true too. Maybe I'll tell my instructor this fact when I next see him on Saturday

[MrGalt]

Kids at my judo club aren't allowed to join the senior class until age 16......and none of them are allowed to go past blue belt until then :P

I'm 6', 185 and there's a 14 year old who's bigger and stronger than I am in our adult class. The only thing making him wait another year to join the class would do is make him bigger and meaner and it hurts enough to get hit by him now.

I think these things are best handled on an individual basis. Leaving the kid I just mentioned in the junior class gives him no challenge and is really discouraging to the other kids, who can't make a dent in him. He can truly physically hang with adult brown and black belts, so I see no reason to shut him out because of his birthdate. For that matter I was the same height I am now and about ten pounds lighter when I was 13 years old and first started karate and I never took a kids' class.

[Katriona1992]

We have junior black belts here at the Seidokaikan Hombu and when they get big enough to join adult class, they put on a yellow belt and come to adult class. Some of the junior high school kids who are right on the line do both classes and change belts every time.

Kids at my judo club aren't allowed to join the senior class until age 16......and none of them are allowed to go past blue belt until then :P

[Brazzzuka]

Just wow ...

[It is Fake]

Culled:
http://www.bullshido.net/forums/show...505&highlight=
Why? This troll deserves his posts in one thread.

[senseipookie]

Apparently just another stupid MMA/Aikido fanboy.

[MrGalt]

We have junior black belts here at the Seidokaikan Hombu and when they get big enough to join adult class, they put on a yellow belt and come to adult class. Some of the junior high school kids who are right on the line do both classes and change belts every time.

[GulfCoast]

I was coming home tonight from work late, and the "dojo on the corner" had just let out and multiple young children wearing black belts were coming out from class as I drove by, and I was reminded of this thread again.

[AFordTeamArce]

Is this first vid featuring Sho Kasugi?

[AFordTeamArce]

Someone who is taught to scare someone off guard and run away...she reminds me of Forest Gump.

[Katriona1992]

I hope she doesn't end up getting hurt...

[GulfCoast]

Hmmm. She started at 8 or 9, and she is 11 now, and has dan rank in 4 DIFFERENT styles. Hmmm.

[TomGibson605]

That's true, but when you give a kid a black belt they think that means they are tough.

[donoraen]

i've said it once, but I guess I can be bothered to say it again. Black belt !=tough. All it means is that she completed what's required of her for that rank. I am against young black belts whole heartedly, but saying her bb means nothing is pretty silly. And for the record it took me 11 years to get my bb in limalama.

[TomGibson605]

She started doing tournaments when she was 9, and shes 11 years old with a 4th degree black belt?!?!? My father is a fourth degree black belt in Judo and it took him 30 years of training and competition. I have done Judo for 14 years and I'm not a black belt. Her black belt means nothing she just walks around pretending to be tough.