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How do I get my 10 year old brother into UFC/MMA?

Get a slightly older kid from an MMA gym to beat him up using MMA techniques, then casually mention a "rival" gym and get him to train there, thats either your average MMA-Teen movie plot, or your brother will become a future UFC champion.

Ronda cant stand losing, hence why she isnt around anymore...so that could play against it, he will lose MANY times before going pro, and them some while going pro unless he happens to be the next Khabib/Jones, they all lose eventually.

RockyLockridge said:
We have different mothers, But my father is jamaican so of course he had to have a kid at age 48 smdh
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Dont blame your father for landing a rich and probably younger than him wife, lol.
 
make him try. wrestling, boxing, kb, mma or something. if he finds he enjoys it or that he thinks he's good/gets some positive feedback about being capable, he could take to it.
you could watch mma with him, and then bully him with wrestling. he might enjoy it. how i got into mma was my uncle (80lbs heavier than me) wrestling me and I enjoyed it and felt capable (via verbal feedback), showed me a couple short fights, but I was 16, not 10.
does he like martial arts movies?

10yo is young to specialise in a sport. at a young age kids should do different sports/physical activities (which it seems he has). probs 13-15 is when to specialise. a lot of ppl start young and burn out. so anything mma-related should just be another sport he does, and not the only one.
ninja boot said:
Unwavering self-confidence
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this is built with life experience. I'm sure not every ufc champ had it at a young age.
 
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i have about 20 nephews in all kinds of different ages from 4 to 19. there is only ONE who looks like a fighter. he's not the biggest, he's not the strongest but he IS the most coordinated. he also understood how timing, ducking, and punching mechanics worked at age 2. nobody taught him it, he just naturally threw punches, even before he could talk and because he was smaller than his brothers he was the one getting beat up all the time, but that honed his already natural skills. now he's 10 and he's probably the best athlete of his brothers.

i have giant nephews, i have athletic ones, but he's the ONLY one i think is a fighter.

i'm saying this because just because your brother is athletic doesn't mean he's a fighter. you don't want to push him into something when he's not that guy. i think you shouldn't try to push him into MMA, because that most likely will influence if he likes it. he'll like it just because his big bro likes it, but not necessarily because he likes it, you know what i mean?

but if you see he has a passion for it, or a natural ability for it like my little nephew does, then let him go out there and beast. personally instead of some striking martial art or MMA, i'd test the waters by seeing if he's interested in WRESTLING.

the other thing is, he might be a beast now, but he's only 10. who knows what happens in the next 10 yrs. maybe the rest of his age group catches up to him in athleticism, maybe his size advantage disappears because his age group starts to catch up to him in size etc.,
 
wolffanghameha said:
this is built with life experience. I'm sure not every ufc champ had it at a young age.
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to a certain extent i do agree and it definitely does build with age.
I guess what i really mean is A-type personality with built in competitiveness.
I have a couple of nephews who got into MMA very young (6 and 8) and they were not cut out for it. They enjoyed the skill building but wilted quickly against more aggressive kids and when the younger one got put in a rear naked choke, he quickly realized that he was no longer interested in any of it.
 
Set him up with a sherdog account. It’s the best base for MMA. Even if he doesn’t pursue competition, he’ll still be 6’5 jacked with 1% bf.
 
El Fernas said:
Dont blame your father for landing a rich and probably younger than him wife, lol.
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LOL that would be nice but My father is a recovered drug addict (who never raised me cuz jail) and this woman he had my brother with is an alcoholic with little to no parental rights. The grandparents have it together, but I really don't think they care for my dread-rasta dad, they want full custody over my kid brother. They look after him on alternate weekends and pay for all his sports programming. My dad provides room and board.

But you were right that she's younger and wants my dad bad lol
 
RockyLockridge said:
Hi.

looking for Insight from some users who may have kids around the age of my younger brother, (born 2014). My Younger brother is very into sports. He's super athletically inclined and dominates in all sports he plays. He plays hockey, Basketball, and baseball most competitively.

I want to use inception tactics to influence him into making his rich grandparents pay for Martial arts training. (instead of playing stupid sports ball) He's bigger and stronger than any 10 year I think I've ever seen in my life, and with his athletic abilities and his mental dominance I think he could do very well, as well as keep him in peak shape. he's got a very competitive (this kid CANNOT stand losing, He's lost before but it right miffs him)

He got into all these other sports he plays by watching them growing up as a child (our dad is big into basketball, his grandfather is old white and Canadian so pays for the hockey ), Last weekend I bought him an xbox series x so he could play NHL with his friends, I was thinking maybe I should try to get him to play the UFC game with me, But im afraid it'll turn him off because the game is dog shit.

how can I get him interested? If you have kids how do you get them interested? (if you want them interested) I didn't get interested until Early adult hood (2010), because I wasn't exposed to it earlier. Fights are usually happening past his bed time and I don't live with him.
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Doesn't he have to at least be attracted to it? Did he watch some MMA but not like it? Or won't he even watch it to begin with?
 
If you want to do him a true service, start at the beginning. I wouldn't say you should go card for card in order, that would take decades, but start at the beginning and hit the high points of every major org whose media is available to you, and work your way through.

I think building a real frame of reference and understanding how we got to where we are is the true foundation of being an educated fan.
 
RockyLockridge said:
We have different mothers, But my father is jamaican so of course he had to have a kid at age 48 smdh



I'm like wayyyyyy to big, Im 33 years old lol



Ya know what? Even I haven't watched. Maybe we could bond over it lmao
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watch it with him is always best. But get him into wrestling.
 
Buy front row tickets to an event. When a fight is ready to start, yeet him into the cage and tell him he has to fight his way out.

Unless you meant something else by "into MMA".
 
Why should he do what you like?
Let him choose what he wants to do.
I don't understand the attitude when people influence children to use them to realize their own unfulfilled dreams.
 
WoozyFailGuy said:
This is the way


You never watched the best PRIDE events ever bro?
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Rocky I'm legitimately shocked.
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Yeah I didn't get into MMA until after pride was already over, so most of those things came to me via YouTube videos with drowning pool playing in the back ground aswell as highlights and clips. I've never watched one single pride event I've seen some isolated fights but zero full events.

Please pelt me with rotten produce. I deserve it 😔
 
wwkirk said:
Doesn't he have to at least be attracted to it? Did he watch some MMA but not like it? Or won't he even watch it to begin with?
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He's just never been exposed to it "yet" but I'm not sure what the best way is. I thought the UFC video game might be a good way....
 
Pancake Sprawl said:
i have about 20 nephews in all kinds of different ages from 4 to 19. there is only ONE who looks like a fighter. he's not the biggest, he's not the strongest but he IS the most coordinated. he also understood how timing, ducking, and punching mechanics worked at age 2. nobody taught him it, he just naturally threw punches, even before he could talk and because he was smaller than his brothers he was the one getting beat up all the time, but that honed his already natural skills. now he's 10 and he's probably the best athlete of his brothers.

i have giant nephews, i have athletic ones, but he's the ONLY one i think is a fighter.

i'm saying this because just because your brother is athletic doesn't mean he's a fighter. you don't want to push him into something when he's not that guy. i think you shouldn't try to push him into MMA, because that most likely will influence if he likes it. he'll like it just because his big bro likes it, but not necessarily because he likes it, you know what i mean?

but if you see he has a passion for it, or a natural ability for it like my little nephew does, then let him go out there and beast. personally instead of some striking martial art or MMA, i'd test the waters by seeing if he's interested in WRESTLING.

the other thing is, he might be a beast now, but he's only 10. who knows what happens in the next 10 yrs. maybe the rest of his age group catches up to him in athleticism, maybe his size advantage disappears because his age group starts to catch up to him in size etc.,
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This is really good insight and the kinda stuff I'm looking for. He's not shown interest in fighting, but he's also not been exposed to it. he's bigger than most kids his age but doesn't seem to be a bully or physically aggressive in anyway
 
Try to persuade him with "its not a career, its an opportunity" speech and when that doesnt work, tell someone else that he is a very hard person to work with, and ultimately you might need to tell him that he never was your brother.

That or maybe show him some cool fights? Maybe not crazy brawls but a beautiful one sided performance like Anderson vs Griffin.
 
50koruny said:
Why should he do what you like?
Let him choose what he wants to do.
I don't understand the attitude when people influence children to use them to realize their own unfulfilled dreams.
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To be honest, I dont care if he fights or not. I'd just like for him to be an MMA fan so we can bond over it. If he wants to fight that's great. However I am pretty adamant about him learning a martial art wether or not he chooses to pursuit it professionally.
 
I say, stick with hockey. Being half Jamaican might land him a DEI NHL contract.

For sure will get him a college scholarship.
 
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