My name is Lord Pyjamas and I have been training ninjutsu since I was 4 months old

[Lord Pyjamas]

Is it just me or is the age of when MMA fighters start training getting ridiculously low?
Why train it before your brain even functions and can remember it?
Or is it something that makes them feel good saying it? It should be doing other things instead!
That is just bad parenting if you ask me? We are now under two years of age for fucks sake!
But I also tend to get annoyed easily about things.

 

[PaddyO'malley]

I been trennin' slap defense fi while now since like 2 muscle memory a ting fam look it up

 

[Lord Pyjamas]

I been trennin' slap defense fi while now since like 2 muscle memory a ting fam look it up

I just call it getting slapped by my mother.

 

[Meathead Jock]

Is it just me or is the age of when MMA fighters start training getting ridiculously low?
Why train it before your brain even functions and can remember it?
Or is it something that makes them feel good saying it? It should be doing other things instead!
That is just bad parenting if you ask me.
We are now under two years for fucks sake!

Just depends on your definition of training MMA. I put my kids in taekwondo (kind of a joke but just was hopeful it would get them used to any type of coaching) at 3 and wrestling at 4, so if they end up MMA fighters down the road, they could sell having started "training" at 3. I'm sure that's the majority of these young claimed trained fighters.

 

[Bobby Boulders]

Children are soaking shit up like a sponge at all times. I wouldn't really see training from an early age as a bad thing. Not to mention, most traditional martial arts teach things like courtesy, integrity, perseverance, self control, and indomitable spirit, things most people in general lack, anymore.

 

[PaddyO'malley]

I just call it getting slapped by my mother.

 

[GiganticMeat]

I've been training psychic jitsu since the womb. Not only is it the only counter to ninjutsu, but I started earlier

 

[Lord Pyjamas]

Just depends on your definition of training MMA. I put my kids in taekwondo (kind of a joke but just was hopeful it would get them used to any type of coaching) at 3 and wrestling at 4, so if they end up MMA fighters down the road, they could sell having started "training" at 3. I'm sure that's the majority of these young claimed trained fighters.

I agree but they are using the age of 2 now!
I also started training my daughter at the age of 3.
Someone even used the combo at the age of 2 after starting walking!
Many of the fighters doesn't seem to know how anything about that even works.
So I predict they will go bellow 1 year of age before 2028!

 

[whocares]

I don't train but when I see red I just tear through entire crowds and people go flying

 

[Lord Pyjamas]

Children are soaking shit up like a sponge at all times. I wouldn't really see training from an early age as a bad thing. Not to mention, most traditional martial arts teach things like courtesy, integrity, perseverance, self control, and indomitable spirit, things most people in general lack, anymore.

Good luck teaching that to a two year old you fucking fool!

 

[Crash-override]

I been trennin' slap defense fi while now since like 2 muscle memory a ting fam look it up

 

[Lord Pyjamas]

 

[Deleted member 585708]

Is it just me or is the age of when MMA fighters start training getting ridiculously low?
Why train it before your brain even functions and can remember it?
Or is it something that makes them feel good saying it? It should be doing other things instead!
That is just bad parenting if you ask me? We are now under two years of age for fucks sake!
But I also tend to get annoyed easily about things.

Any non-contact martial arts can be started early, surely?

Their brains do function and are literally designed to learn. They're learning constantly including about movement.

 

[Dr. Rose]

Children are soaking shit up like a sponge at all times. I wouldn't really see training from an early age as a bad thing. Not to mention, most traditional martial arts teach things like courtesy, integrity, perseverance, self control, and indomitable spirit, things most people in general lack, anymore.

Bingo. Low likelihood of cte in traditional martial arts. Far less then having three older brothers who beat the piss out of you all the time. You learn to wrestle (and squirm) quickly.

 

[tritestill]

Just look into how myelin works and it makes sense, long as they are not getting hit in the head too young. The younger the better tbh. We are far more receptive at children to certain things and the more repetition you get performing the same action, the more myelin gets wrapped around the nerve axon and the more efficient and effective you become at the act.

 

[Lord Pyjamas]

Any non-contact martial arts can be started early, surely?

Their brains do function and are literally designed to learn. They're learning constantly including about movement.

Non-contact martial arts?
They already beat each-other up in the Kindergarten at that age!
But we don't call that shit martial arts! Because they are uncontrollable tiny animals raging around.
Calling it that is just pretentious!

 

[MarleyLynx]

I mean... It helps... A lot...

 

[Vampire life]

I’ve been training UFC since 1977
“Arm bar” is what they call me at my current gym

 

[Lord Pyjamas]

I mean... It helps... A lot...

How did your training at the age of 2 help you!
I truly want to know!

 

[Bobby Boulders]

Good luck teaching that to a two year old you fucking fool!

I mean, good parents should be instilling those values into their children, in the first place. They don't start when they're teens