who thinks that some form martial arts should be taught in the public school system?
I think that we should teach all our children at least some form of self defence. most other countries do it, some countries wonder why others don't. For some, it's a case of nat'l pride! Even most in the animal Kingdom teaches their young to fight. It would advance the health effort to no end too. I feel it's a travisty to let our children out our doors each day without a clue as to how to defend themselves.Think of it! Every day in the news a child is abducted, and that's just the ones they decide to report. take for example carly brusha all saw the survelance tape. A classic martial arts scenario. Even if she knew some of the most basic of tecniques she could be alive today!!! Kids taken into public bathrooms, yea right!!! We should develope an American martial arts system with the M/A philosophy and all. But before I work out the bugs I want to know how you feel about the subject. I'm going to blog my ideas on my 360 page all input will be welcome
Well that's why we have to educate the children to watch out for these types of people, even if a child knows martial arts, but doesn't know how to use it properly, or hasn't paid attention to what is taught to them, then it won't be effective. and they have to use everything they can to get away from those people: biting, kicking, hitting, screaming , whatever it takes to get away or draw attention to themselves and whoever is trying to snatch them.
for example, in our class (we have a children's class that I help with.) wee practice such scenarios, our biggest guy (who weighs 280 lbs) as a scenario, grabbed one of the kids and told him "if you yell kid, I'll kill you, but because he was always told to do as an adult said and not anyone who was an immediate family member like his mother or father, he stayed quiet when he should've yelled struggled bit and did anything to draw attention to what was happening to him and he coulda been easily kidnapped.
that's why educating the children about this stuff is far more important then teaching them Martial Arts, but getting a child in a Martial Art is a great idea no matter the discipline, but there are people or families that don't believe that their child should take a martial art because their child could get hurt, or that they don't believe that martial arts could help their child.
With so many disciplines to choose from, it would be difficult to say which one's the best suited to teach when each of the Martial Arts are good to teach in some form or another.
while your idea has merit my friend there are a lot more things to consider.
when I have children ,I'll definitely teach them martial arts, and then maybe get them into a MA school to further their study to become a better martial artist.
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