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Khabib wrestling with bears at the age of nine, kids brutally sparring at the age of 6-7. Where do we draw the line? I know it takes a special human being to become a UFC champion. Maybe the sooner you start sparring, the more chances you give yourself to become a UFC champion?
What do you think?
guess you should go back and retroactively take back Jon Jones and Jose aldo's belts as they earned their champ status before age 25Agreed. No sparring until at least age 25.
Next will be handicap people fighting while the crowd throws 2 x 4's to help end the fight.Does UFC have kids fights now?
yeah but shadow sparing only.
And only a few kids can have the patience and self control to do that.
Thai have are biggest children abuser I mean children trainer and they are very carefull it's also because they fight very frequently but still.
Brain damage that early makes you go full barboza
Yeah cause little kids always take their long term health in consideration. Good callNature of striking sports, just like American football. People should know the risks.
Muay Thai has lots of matches between children. Here is a match between a boy and girl.
Dunno cos that shits just gonna happen on the playground anyway.. I had my head slammed against the concrete between 6-12 a bunch of times, and I turned out okay.
Heated discussions for this? It is absolutely criminal to let children spar with blows to the head. People who think otherwise should never ever have children.I have had heated arguments with posters in the standup forum. I think from a Western perspective, it is literally criminal to have a child do sparring with repeated strikes to the head.
You are essentially cognitively impairing your child just so he can become a pro fighter later? What happens when he realises that he does not want to be fighting for a living (like 99,99% of people) and instead decides that he wants to be a physicist? What do you tell your child, then? "Oh but but fighting is so cool"?