WHY GRAPPLING FOR CHILDREN?
Date Posted: 19 06 2008
Why Grappling for Children?
- Uses Techniques instead of strength
Grappling is the ideal method of Training for children since it emphasizes leverage and technique over strength and power. This focus makes it possible for all children to excel, regardless of their size or athletic ability.
Grappling vs Other Martial Arts for Children
- Ideal for diffusing school fights.
Grappling enables practitioners to subdue their opponents without the use of punching and kicking, eliminating the need to use excessive force in a real-life situations. Grappling is a martial art that uses techniques and is ideal for diffusing school fights. Nobody has to get hurt with Grappling. The idea of “tapping out” during training allows the students to keep their training realistic, yet safe.
The Benefits of Grappling for your Child?
Below are some of the benefits of training with Grappling.
Grappling Builds Self Confidence & Self Esteem, For many children, self confidence doesn’t come naturally. Confidence is developed over a period of time and as a child accomplishes new goals, his or her confidence level increases.
Children gain self esteem and exhibit confidence with their new-found grappling techniques, but a good instructor will constantly stress, in class, the value of knowing when to use their skills--for self defence or in competition only! Kids with a high sense of self-esteem have the confidence to stand up for themselves, be more out spoken and more inclined to help others. The confidence gained allows their individual personalities to shine.
Learn Grappling Skills for Better grades
Being a Grappling student also means being a better student in school. Kids who participate in Grappling are proven to have better attention spans. They also learn respect, discipline and responsibility. They learn gratitude, loyalty, the importance of staying in school and keeping their bodies healthy and drug free. Every child learns to follow directions, pay attention, participate in class activities and work as a team. These skills help them to become better students.
Learning Coordination Early in Life
Kids learn motor movement at a very early age. Grappling challenges the entire body, developing coordination, balance, agility and poise. These traits are often neglected and not fully developed in team sports. By starting children in Grappling they learn how to fall properly, and how to initiate movement patterns that are inherent to life and any sport they might choose down the road. We also begin basic fitness and calisthenics that will give them a leg-up on their peers who do not engage in fitness activities at an early age.
Learn discipline and perseverance
In Grappling, kids would be ranked according to the level of proficiency. The rnaking system allows your child to set long-term goals and short-term goals, such as being able to execute a new technique they learned in class, or achieving their next degree or belt.
Best Training for Children of all Ages
Grappling teaches children to think instead of panic in potentially serious situations as well as how to react to threats from other kids. Your child will also be taught not to be a bully. For life- threatening situations only, your child will learn practical self defence. They learn how to think fast on their feet, to improvise and avoid trouble whenever possible.
The skills your child will learn in Grappling will empower and protect them for the rest of their lives.
Early exposure to Grappling is truly a great gift to your child.