06/12/2023
WHY MATT FIDDES MARTIAL ARTS IS GREAT FOR YOUR KIDS???
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Activities and sports like Football, Gymnastics, Girl/Boy Scouts etc... are all great hobbyβs and I endorse letting kids choose whatever activities they want, these are all great for a childβs overall development.
I categorize swimming lessons differently; swimming is a life skill and non-negotiable.
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Sooner or later children will be exposed to water, (be it a pool, lake, river or ocean) and not having basic swimming skills and confidence around the water will hold them back and could be potentially fatal. They donβt need to be Olympic swimmers but they need enough basic skills to tread water and survive but ideally are competent enough that they donβt have to be nervous or fearful around water.
REAL LIFE SAVING SKILLSβ¦..
Now apply that same filter to martial arts. Itβs a great sport, with all the benefits of traditional sports, like those mentioned earlier but it also teaches self defence which is an essential life skill. In your childβs lifetime, they will almost certainly face the threat of physical violence (often unavoidably and through no fault of their own).
When you are attacked, just like in the water, it doesnβt matter how hard you try, without proper training and technique you will panic, thrash & most likely get hurt, sometimes seriously even fatallyβ¦
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We put our kids in swimming lessons to prepare them, so they can be in the water without fear and tread water if they get in over their heads.
The day your child gets confronted by a bully or attacked in the street ask yourself; Have YOU given them the tools & confidence to stay calm, protect themselves and survive or have they been thrown in the deep end to fend for themselves?
Martial arts is a mandatory life skill in my parenting bookβ¦.
Every parent says they would do anything to protect their children, but the truth is your not with your child a lot of the time, so they need their own practical self defence skills.
Training your children in martial arts is not a costβ¦.. it is an essential investment β€οΈ
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