ESPN Outside The Lines Mixed Martial Arts For Kids

i don’t think anyone under 10 should fight MMA, learning the JJ, Boxing, ect. but not fight.

Thats Stuped, I love the sport but these is insane, these things make mma look bad, its a rising sport and dump people start to teach small kids in that way is very wrong.

Well it’s better than making them spend their sundays at church getting diddled by the priest,lol

HMMMM This is so much better than Violent Video Games……….What kind of Parents do these kids have? Dang i can understand if Mom and Dad are MMA Fans but Dang this is a little too much. I cant wait to see on the news kids in the playground breaking each others arms and legs because he or she lost in Tetherball or Kickball. MADNESS I TELL YOU MADNESS……………………..

MMA should not be practiced at such an early stage. Kids should prepare technically and phisically. Swimming, gymnastics, stretching and developing the bone and muscle stucture by practicing sports that allow a healthy development of the mind and the body. MMA should not be practiced before the age of fourteen or fifteen. Kids should start with judo, jujitsu and karate.

Have to agree with MMA Kid…nothing wrong in training a martial art…but contact fighting in children is wrong.
I think the best thing about learning a martial art rather than just fighting is that you learn not only how to defend yourself (from bullies for eg) but importantly you learn to RESPECT your teacher and your fellow athletes/opponents. Furthermore, you learn to live your life according to your martial art’s/groups ideals, rather than violence.

There are tons of combat sports out there that have been training kids for a long time. Some of the greatest mixed martial artists have come throught wrestling – it’s one hell of a lot safer sport for kids. BJJ is probably another, judo… There’s no shortage of options. Having kids that young start MMA training is straight-up insane. At age 15, that’s another thing, but a four-year old kid doing MMA… this makes me sick.

They aren’t doing anything they wouldn’t be doing in a regular karate or traditional martial arts class except using the smaller gloves. Kids have been doing martial arts for centuries. Plus, kids hurt themselves no matter what they’re doing. What is so wrong with this that can’t be said about other martial arts as well?

as so often the case – roughhousing turns to tears. The ERs will be full up with choked out children and KO’d Kids.

I bet none of his students get picked on at school. Even if it is 1st grade.

what kind of a sick society can allow kids in their early stage of personality building, allow them to develop the sense of combat and agression in a way they cannot yet understand nor control? Only the same kind of society that has been allowing its government to send their children to war over and over again through history under lies and false evindences of threats. Americans… wake up. It’s a sick world out there, and you have such a responsability in that. Make your kids read books of history not written only by mainstream americans. Make your kids read about other cultures and if possible(not everybody can) make them travel and see for themselves. Educate them to be more openminded that you and your ancestors.

Damn that almost made me puke. Kids are gonna b brain dead before they are even adults.
MMA should start in your later teen years if even that. Thats cool if ya want to let your kids fight mma but i think its disgusting.

i saw this, and this will bring mma to the ground.

heres the problem.. the guys teaching kids mma dont kno how to teach kids mma… nothing wrong with kids learning martial arts.. but they should be light sparring and thats it.. no huge slams to the floor headshots etc. until atleast 10.

that kids knew if he told his dad he wanted to quit… his dad would give him anoyher bloody nose

disgusting….. love mma, but Its too dangerous for kids, especially full contact… Im not a square, but this is bad and this is why ppl call it human cock fighting.

Well, as my son says, “Parents condone football where even if a team is getting slaughtered they can’t quit until time has expired.”

Marc Buoniconti, son of HOF Linebacker Nick, was paralyzed; a 1985 spinal cord injury left him unable to move a muscle below his neck. Oh, doesn’t football generate revenue for universities? Is a sport that has the potential to render a participant a quadriplegic not violent?

Legislative involvement was mentioned. I say, how many of the student athletes in accepted sports are illiterate by my standards? I think legislators should be worrying about athletic academic achievement before MMA for children comes under scrutiny.

This is still a free country the last time I checked; let people swing all they want as long as they don’t hit you in the nose.

And maybe, just maybe, one of these MMA children will save a loved one’s life some day.

I don’t think I would like my kid to get beat on.
I think that there are laws that protect
children from child abuse and in this circumstance
it seems that abusive parents have simply passed the buck. I am an mma student myself and we are smart enough to know that training like this could only lead to injury or death. The parents of these children should take hard look at themselves and realize the abuse there child is going threw. They
may not learn what they have done until one of the kids get old enough to kick one of there asses or gets seriously injured.

I don’t have an issue with kids training Martial Arts (or Mixed Martial Arts). however those kids aint wearing head gear; and those are 4oz gloves. Not very responsible.

They have to wear head gear at all times. thicker gloves. so retarded.

sorry about the post above. I think this is horrible, grapple until your at least in High school. If you have to fight wear headgear and heavy gloves.