what age should kids start training?

Dawei

Just out of curiosity, what age should kids start training, and you know the that in club there are disclaimers, should kids and parents sign together?

cowzerp

I think the technical stuff can be trained and learned as soon as the kid is capable of playing any sports, aggressive sports such as boxing, muay thai and mma i'd wait till 10+ personally.

The main thing is fun at young ages so its less to do with fighting and more to do with enjoyment and learning good habits, bjj or judo is great for kids as is tkd or kick boxing-legally a child cant sign anything without parental consent so thats your responsibility! (just dont have them do anything contraindicated and its all good)

Colm_OReilly

fighting is fun!

I've had children as young as three play in our classes, and manipulated 7 week old children with movement. From birth we're beginning to move, and the more we're physically stimulated the greater our capacity for physical excellence is.

Roper

5 is the age I take them at. Taking them younger has only held back the older kids up to 10. whereas 5 year olds have gone to school and know how to play a bit better, so I can leave them with their partner a bit. Whereas most pre-school kids don't have that yet.

I don't think there's an age for it though. I've had 12 year olds (and some adults) who are less capable of learning things than some 5 year olds.

It can all be fun. I sometimes have my kids grapple with mess punches (not really hitting) which is actually like light MMA sparring. They have the best fun with that. I used to come up with game after game after game but now I just mostly let them wrestle cos that's what they enjoy the most. Even the 5 year olds.

arybvtcw0eolkf

I'm found that kids younger than about eight have a limited concentration span.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Roper wrote: »

5 is the age I take them at.

GULP!.. :eek:

FiannaGym.com

16 in Fianna and even at that we have very few guys of that age.

But thats because I rule with an Iron fist haha

I the actual answer your looking for is "NOW"

Peace

Dawei

I suppose you training adults and kids together would be a nightmare , wouldn't it?

pma-ire

i take kids at 4 years old, but they are not put straight into the same training porgram as older kids.

i think it's best to have classes for different age groups as best you can.

otherwise both you and the members in your classes will get frustrated.

Dawei

I would take kids at the least 8, otherwise I would feel like being a nanny

Roper

Well I have 5 year olds and I have to admit they're more work, but not as much as you might think. Sure they can be trying but teaching kids should be fun. I have great craic with my 5-10 year old class.

Personally, I tire of people saying that parents are just putting their kids into things just for babysitting etc. In my experience the vast majority of parents are interested in getting their kids active, and that would be the primary motivation rather than having an hour to shop.

lemansky

Luckily we have the numbers to be able to split the kids classes up by age into roughly 3 age groups starting from 5, though we have younger kids there. The classes tend to be busy so the kids have people their own age there to work with so that helps a lot. They don't feel as though they are the babies as the rest are of a similar age rather than say having a 5 year old in with an 11 year old. I know other places can't help that arrangement but we are lucky in that we can avoid it.

The 5 year olds are the most vicious actually:D

Colm_OReilly

The great thing about young kids is they've no pretenses, so if it's boring, they'll say so. Adults will just switch off. Honestly I don't think your concentration span increases as you get older, you just get better at hiding the fact

On the flip side, I'd a 4 year old on saturday pull off a guard pass i was showing the older children.

For our monkeys, we have them wrestle older kids a lot, so that they can be manipulated into proper rolling without hurting themselves or building bad habits.

If kids don't get something I don't try to force it. They're fecking 5! If they keep playing they'll discover what works anyway.

Colm
-Just some rambling thoughts

mark.leonard

5 is the lower bound on the Point Blank Kids classes. Many of my 5 year olds a decent enough on the mat, but at that age a year either way makes such a big difference.

Havo

What age wud u suggest for a kid to start trainin thai at??

dudara

We wouldn't take kids under 6/7 in our kids classes. They can be very easily distracted when younger. Having said that, easily 40 minutes of the class was playing, running and other activity with only about 20 minutes actually given over to TKD

Roper

Havo wrote: »

What age wud u suggest for a kid to start trainin thai at??

Don't know if theres a Thai gym that does kids classes actually. In Thailand they start them young. Very young!