UFC FOR CHILDREN??
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There's a huge difference between training kids in the martial arts vs. encouraging aggressive behavior.
I would argue that violent video games are 100x worse for a developing mind than learning how to actually fight. Fighting in real life teaches you, among other things, respect for the real person that you are actually fighting and that trickles down into your perspectives on other things in life.
That being said, I don't believe that starting kids off in MMA is the right way to go...Mixed Martial Arts is just that - mixed....and its stupid to just start training as an "MMA fighter" without first having a foundation in several other fighting disciplines. With the popularity of the UFC and WEC, you see a lot of people trying to fight "MMA" without any background in the disciplines that MMA encompasses.
Start the kids off in Wrestling, Tae Kwon Do, or Karate...then let them branch out to others as they see fit. I do agree that these activities carry no more risk than baseball, football, or soccer. A child could be injured by a baseball being thrown just as easily as they could from a well placed kick or punch. Kids under 15 that practice martial arts should only be doing light sparring with protective equipment anyway.
I recently started training in Muaythai...probably the most fun I've ever had while working out. It teaches some pretty devastating fight techniques as well....
I would argue that violent video games are 100x worse for a developing mind than learning how to actually fight. Fighting in real life teaches you, among other things, respect for the real person that you are actually fighting and that trickles down into your perspectives on other things in life.
That being said, I don't believe that starting kids off in MMA is the right way to go...Mixed Martial Arts is just that - mixed....and its stupid to just start training as an "MMA fighter" without first having a foundation in several other fighting disciplines. With the popularity of the UFC and WEC, you see a lot of people trying to fight "MMA" without any background in the disciplines that MMA encompasses.
Start the kids off in Wrestling, Tae Kwon Do, or Karate...then let them branch out to others as they see fit. I do agree that these activities carry no more risk than baseball, football, or soccer. A child could be injured by a baseball being thrown just as easily as they could from a well placed kick or punch. Kids under 15 that practice martial arts should only be doing light sparring with protective equipment anyway.
I recently started training in Muaythai...probably the most fun I've ever had while working out. It teaches some pretty devastating fight techniques as well....
i think it would be great my parents made me wait so i feel cheated i could have started 3 years ago and i feel i would have been alot better off.Also martial arts and ufc are worlds apart and trying to switch is imo is hard at least for me.
elevatethis;1649795; said:
agreed start them out in something like u said a discipline and let time learn to have a background and if they choose to do one or the other let them
also to anwser prinesses question no women do not fight in the ufc BUT i personally have seen them fight in a different fighting league and its not worth anyones dime to watch it was one chick that wanted to fight and one that wanted to say she's a fighter and the one what was there to fight kicked the helll out of the one that just wanted to say she did it it lasted all of 45 sec and it was mostly one girl hitting the other once and the rest of the time the one that got hit was RUNNING away from the other till the ifhgt was stoped it was pathetic if u want to see a good chick fight go to the bar
Women's MMA is growing right along side with the men's version and is very popular although still very much "underground" and not in the main stream.
CNBC had a program on the UFC and in their interview with Dana White (president of the UFC), he said that women's MMA is growing in popularity and the quality of the professional competition is growing - but he said that the UFC doesn't think that the general public is ready to see two women pummel each other in the octagon. In other words, there already are pro female MMA fighters, they just aren't broadcasted.
I saw women compete in MMA and Muaythai at a regional event in Richmond last year. The women's Muaythai was awesome and those girls could really lay it down. The women's MMA was a little disappointing but it was only at the amateur level, so I would think a pro fight would be better.
CNBC had a program on the UFC and in their interview with Dana White (president of the UFC), he said that women's MMA is growing in popularity and the quality of the professional competition is growing - but he said that the UFC doesn't think that the general public is ready to see two women pummel each other in the octagon. In other words, there already are pro female MMA fighters, they just aren't broadcasted.
I saw women compete in MMA and Muaythai at a regional event in Richmond last year. The women's Muaythai was awesome and those girls could really lay it down. The women's MMA was a little disappointing but it was only at the amateur level, so I would think a pro fight would be better.
From experience with doing co-ed hand to hand combatives training under a program designed by Royce Gracie, I'd have to say women aren't really equipped for doing the whole grappling thing.
Their physical attributes seem more fitted towards kick boxing and the like, just an opinion - though.
All of the women I observed in training, who were in very good physical condition, would tire out really fast doing all of the grappling and just didn't really have the physical ability to throw eachother around like guys do.
Their physical attributes seem more fitted towards kick boxing and the like, just an opinion - though.
All of the women I observed in training, who were in very good physical condition, would tire out really fast doing all of the grappling and just didn't really have the physical ability to throw eachother around like guys do.
