Martial art instructors should not teach children a martial art
YouTube Links All of Pro's links lead to YouTube's homepage. Thus, he has thus far
got no evidence in video form for his points and event hen he'd have to prove that
one instance of abuse occurring means that all martial arts are taught this same way..
The ‘Bully’ Case Pro states that Martial Arts instructors are deceptive bullies but
if they were deceptive, surely they’d be successfully hiding the fact that they were
bullies and he wouldn’t be raising the point. On top of this flaw, Pro suggests that
because Martial Arts involves teaching combat and how to handle it that the student
is being abused and ‘bullied’ by the instructor. Very few martial arts ever actually
involve any real striking of the body in training as opposed to tournaments or practise
fights. One example Kyokushin Karate [http://www.blackbeltmag.com...] whose philosophy
is to make the boy so hard and powerful that self-defence becomes almost unnecessary
and is very often only taught with full honesty and parental consent due to how rigorous
it is on the body. There is absolutely no deception involved and anyone who undertakes
it is fully entitled to ask what the training methods are. Other Martial Arts that
involve contact-based training include Shaolin Kung Fu [https://thaingwizard.files.wordpress.com...],
Jeet Kune Do [http://www.blackbeltmag.com...] and a few others. The vast majority
of martial arts do not involve contact in the training itself but rather involve teaching
one how to avoid contact and practising dodging or blocking techniques or at the very
worst, grappling. As for the entire ‘bully’ concept of an instructor it is very important
to note that both in real life and movies, the primary reason people begin martial
arts are either because they themselves are bullies and are rather unruly and need
a good outlet for their anger that is disciplined or they themselves are victims of
bullying and want to learn ways to stick up to the bullies without outright killing
them. Often weaker people feel the need to be more lethal with their moves such as
neck-jabs or eye gouges and end up looking worse in the eyes of the law and teachers
no matter how they justify it. Through martial arts training they can learn how to
still be weaker but perhaps more agile and fast so that they dodge the bully’s moves
and have him on the floor begging for mercy without really damaging his body in any
way other than twisting a few limbs. Martial Arts does not just help bullying by disciplining bullies and giving victims
a way to out-fight them non-lethally, it sometimes is literally a good way for people
with a bully mentality or people with an inferiority complex to release those emotions and overcome them in a safe controlled environment
[http://www.urbandojo.com...]. Imagine you are someone who had a rough upbringing
or is simply sadistic by nature, there is no way for you to enjoy activities where
you are not hurting other people and sports may seem too team-based for you while
you like to hurt people and know it’s only you causing that pain. Psychopathic individuals
or people on that spectrum would otherwise resort to bullying if they didn’t have
an activity like a martial arts tournament to enjoy causing pain without losing control
or being a danger to society. Additionally, this is further reason to encourage children
to learn it more so than adults as a child’s self-control (for bullies) and self-esteem
(for victims) are often very fragile in comparison with older individuals [http://web.stanford.edu...(2009,%200-3)%20Self-Control%20and%20the%20Developing%20Brain.pdf]
Aside from those benefits, exercise itself is a great way of curing depression and
other issues such as anxiety. A timid or depressed individual needs to begin to feel
strong and/or powerful if they are ever to feel ‘whole’ again as a person. Martial
arts offers them a cure to almost all victim-based psychological issues at once and
is therefore one of the best all-in-one solutions to a victim’s mind-set [http://www.amadojo.net...].
A child is submissive to their parents and their teachers too, often referring to
a teacher as ‘sir’ or ‘miss’ (short for mistress). Sir and mistress are common terms
used for doms/dommes in the BDSM community [http://www.evilmonk.org...] yet children
call their teachers and/or superiors in many walks of life these things every day.
Ma’am could also be considered the equivalent of mistress in certain contexts. Submission
isn’t a bad thing for children to experience, it is simply a good way for them to
learn respect and to submit to the good role models while resisting submission to
the bad ones which more often than not are their very own peers. Select examples of
abuse do not disprove the overall benefits If I linked you to a series of select examples
of domestic abuse either husband-wife based or parent-child, you would begin to think
it was horrific that everyone wasn’t in foster care and that families even existed
since the privacy of a home can allow all kinds of filthy things to go on. Then if
I showed you examples of abuse in foster care you’d think the opposite. All systems
are open to abuse and examples are there for almost anything. Workplace power can
be abused, bosses molesting their secretaries is not unheard of either. Does this
mean no-one should be a member of a family or workplace? No, it really does not. Martial
Arts instructors are among the most disciplined individuals on Earth. Their abuser
will most likely be purely disciplinary in nature and have at least a remote reason
for it. Sexual abuse or physical abuse with no disciplinary motive behind it is next
to 0% of abuse heard of in martial arts. On the other hand, this is not at all true
for domestic abuse or workplace abuse. Teacher-student abuse doesn’t mean that children
should stop going to school either. This ridiculous approach not only is fallacious
but backfires as martial arts abuse is almost always with some reason and used purely
for discipline while abuse in other examples of child-submission are often without
any sensible disciplinary motive and are horrifically sexual or anger-prone in nature
without any rational motive for the outbreak. The abuse reversal gambit So let’s say
that we had an abusive parent and they fancied sending their child somewhere that
the child would suffer even more. Due to the harsh reputation of martial arts, many
parents of this kind may send their child there and laugh at the thought of their
child suffering beneath a harsh master. If there was no reputation for abuse in martial
arts, abusive parents wouldn’t send their kid there but since there is many do. And
it’s the best abuse reversing mistake of all-time because guess what happens next
time daddy comes to feel his little girl up or beat his son or wife? Bruce Lee combines
with Jack the Ripper and that parent is on the floor before they can blink and their
kid is making them beg for mercy but it won’t come this time. The abusive parent was
defeated by sending their child to a place they thought would make them suffer but
merely made them stronger and wiser.
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