Martial Arts is a vehicle to building confidence in young children and adults.
By exposing your child to martial arts at a young age, they become aware of their control and power in a safe and peaceful environment.
This is the ultimate goal of Martial Arts against Bullying.
Let’s discuss the role of Martial arts, the parent and the teacher in the behavioral development of children in today’s schools.
Since I am a Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, I feel I can speak about the importance of organized martial arts in a child’s developmental process.
This is a great age to introduce a child to some form of martial arts.
Martial arts teaches systems that the child knows and understands well enough to apply what they practice in real life.
To discover more about one self and learn different measures of control both physical and emotional, Martial arts is an excellent forum.
Young children in Martial Arts are taught at an age where their emotional compasses are all over the board.
Martial Arts instruction is as important if not more important than classes in school, for the socialization of young children.
In the martial arts environment, a child is taught more about the codes of honor and because it’s an old art of war from many different countries, there’s a sense of respect given to the professor or instructor.
Young kids who aren’t violent in nature, but who appreciate and enjoy the art of something that is more meaningful to them for whatever reason it is.
Kids who participate in some form of martial arts whether it’s Karate, Kickboxing, Boxing, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Aikido, or Mixed Martial Arts, have no reasons to abuse others.
Martial Arts would be a great fit in public schools.
Replace physical education with a couple martial arts programs.
If one student’s life is changed or saved from students being required to attend anti bully classes and martial arts classes in school, we would have far less incidences of bullying.
Some parents are bullies themselves, or don’t want their kids to learn martial arts.
What they fail to realize is that safety exists in martial arts and danger exists when nothing is done.
While I agree Martial Arts won’t solve the whole problem, I do believe its an out of the box idea whose time has come.
Martial artists as well as properly trained parents and teachers can impact the actions of children as well as redefine how they behave towards others, and the futures of our grandchildren won’t be faced with another huge problem that only festers because of lack of general concern!
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