MT:Practicing with children

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Practicing with children By ziason - Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:43:24 GMT

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I have a question for everyone. AT my school there are only so seperations by age. Below 14, and 14 and above. Personally I am not thrilled about practicing martial arts against a 14 year old partner, especially a girl. I am nearly 50 and male. Our instructor says it's good for her to practice against me, and I can agree from that perspective. But for me to break out of a choke or wrist grab, or block a punch or kick from a 14 year old girl I hurl across the dojo with one hand seems pointless. I have been in real life situations where I had to use ma to defend myself and my opponents were all adults, usually drunk, angry, scared, or some combination there of. I think I would get a lot more realistic training if I could focus on training with other adults.
How do your schools handle this? Are your broken up into more age groups? Please include the style in your reply.


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[Michael831]

For you, it is a good chance to learn control, so you don't throw her across the dojo. You might want to mention it to one of the instructors/assistant instructors, though.

[bigboywasim]

I can see where you are coming from. At the place where I train the adult classes are 16+. There are girls in my adult class but they are 18+. I am a big guy and sometimes I ask myself the same question. However it is important to train with different types of people. The girl needs someone to train with as well. One good thing to note is sparring with the girl will teach you control and control is a big part of martial arts. Her training with an older guy like you will teach her how to fight older stronger people and take some of the fear away form her.