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[Asa87]

I have kickboxed when I was younger and done Muay Thai for the past 4 years, so I have done thai boxing my whole life... If I had a son and he asked to go to Tae Kwon Do I'd slap him upside his head with a roundhouse kick.

[tennessee mma]

I have kickboxed when I was younger and done Muay Thai for the past 4 years, so I have done thai boxing my whole life... If I had a son and he asked to go to Tae Kwon Do I'd slap him upside his head with a roundhouse kick.

is this your son lol

[Kensei]

not funny!!!!

[tennessee mma]

sorry didn't mean to be offensive

[Kensei]

personally I would rather throw the kid into a kickboxing school or even a kiddie kick boxing school over a TKD school.

Seems to me that the skill set is closer than TKD to Muay Thai.

[Asa87]

Yea that's exactly what I done, was in a kids kickboxing class when I was about 5 and loved it, learend the principles of punching and kicking. After that I went around loads of martial arts looking for something I enjoyed as much... did karate, kung fu, Judo and then stopped doing martial arts for a few years, then ended up at a good Muay Thai class and had the fundamentals down to a T.

So even a kids kickboxing class, I'd reccomend it, I fell in love with martial arts thanks to kickboxing... and street fighter..

make him play street fighter... make him go Sagat.

[Asa87]

As far as I'm aware Kickboxing is Fists and Shins, no elbows and knees like muay thai. Or the kickboxing class I went to when young was anyway... I guess it all depends on the class/instructor etc etc. Maybe take ur kid to a lesson and ask to sit in and watch?

[Kensei]

boxing punches and Karate kicks, that is kick boxing. Asa is right, no elbows and no knees. Lots of padding to. I would normally say that kids up to 16 or so should NOT do contact sports like Kick boxing and the like, but if they really aspire to be fighters than watch them carefully but a junior kick boxing class may be better than Kung fu or TKD.

[Asa87]

I did Karate too when I was young which was a really good class but I didn't like the discipline, the atmosphere was alot more strict than kickboxing and I was a bad little bitch!

[Kensei]

lol, I have taught kids like you...not fun!

[Kensei]

My dad used to box with me, however in our family nothing was ever given away. My grandfather taught us all Sambo and nothing was ever easy. They both said that giving a point away was disrespectful to the other person. I had my nose broken for the first time at 10 and had my first chipped teeth at 11 by a cousin at Grand dads house.

Personally, I would never do that to my kids, but times change. My daughter is four and if she could take Karate I would never spar with her to "teach her to be tough". Times are just different....and that is not a bad thing.

[DisciplineHopes]

heck at my stage in this stuff i need to be in there with your kids! take it easy on me!

[DisciplineHopes]

well i guess i cant go that afr with myself but as far as any type of combat training, if i havent learned it from tv or watching, i havent learned it.