child competing in Karate

[Healthy Stealthy]

How does one make their child more agressive when competng in Karate. I
know a lot of it has to do with nature. If a child is not very
physically agressive, how can he/she be taught to be while competing so
as to win the competition?

[Zebee Johnstone]

In rec.martial-arts.moderated on Mon, 6 Nov 2006 15:33:51 UTC

Post by Healthy Stealthy
How does one make their child more agressive when competng in Karate. I
know a lot of it has to do with nature. If a child is not very
physically agressive, how can he/she be taught to be while competing so
as to win the competition?

Does the kid want to win and compete, or are they only doing it
because someone is telling them they must?

THey have to want to win, and not everyone thinks winning karate is
worthwhile.

Zebee

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Post by Healthy Stealthy
How does one make their child more agressive when competng in Karate. I
know a lot of it has to do with nature. If a child is not very
physically agressive, how can he/she be taught to be while competing so
as to win the competition?

Why aren't they being aggresive? Is it fear of being hurt or hurting
someone else? If it's fear of being hurt you can usually train he/she
not
to fear being kicked, punched, or thrown. If its a fear of hurting
other
people then competition probably isn't the best place for the child.

[Bob]

Post by Healthy Stealthy
How does one make their child more agressive when competng in Karate.
I know a lot of it has to do with nature. If a child is not very
physically agressive, how can he/she be taught to be while competing
so as to win the competition?

You can't make a kid go against their basic nature.

If s/he has chosen to do karate, then it could just be a matter of
time. It takes time and practice to build up confidence in one's
ability to attack, defend, take knocks, and give knocks and everyone
(adult or child) is different. Given sufficient time and practice,
if the child wants to get better in competition, then it will happen.

Even if the child has chosen to do karate, there is nothing wrong
with not wanting to compete. There is much more to karate than
competition, and many ways the child can benefit. Quite a few
kids don't want to compete initially, but choose to later as their
confidence and interest in karate builds.

If your child is doing karate and/or competition unwillingly, then
my advice would be to find something else the child enjoys. Forcing
anyone to compete when they don't want to does more harm than good --
both emotionally and physically.