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That is just awesome!
One day, if I ever do become a father, and I can only have one child, I would prefer to have a daughter.
I'd be teaching my kid something like this.
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)never taught either my girls or my boy how to fight. All that lame hippie bullshit I spouted about not fighting people. People like me should never have children.
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)So, in truth I learned from other people.
Besides, something like this, what this means to me is teaching discipline and trying to be healthy.
In some ways, I think it is a means of chanelling energy to something constructive.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)People like my mother should never have children! Violent and personality disordered. No, a peace loving hippie has nothing to beat himself up for.
Auggie
(31,263 posts)Xyzse
(8,217 posts)I tend to think discipline and civility is inculcated in most martial arts.
Even boxing tends to teach such a thing.
Baitball Blogger
(46,820 posts)Xyzse
(8,217 posts)That's what is so great about it.
When someone looks to be enjoying something like that. It becomes so much fun.
It also becomes a leg up to try to keep someone active and doing physical activities when one grows older.
4_TN_TITANS
(2,977 posts)About the time I arrive at a nursing home, I'm sure she'll be on pay-per-view.
I would think that reflexes like that at such a young age reflects certain talent that isn't just learned.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)Had the punching bag, too. A boy a few years older than I was taught me how to spar.
trof
(54,256 posts)To her, it's a game.
Boxing is fun until you actually get coldcocked.
rurallib
(62,508 posts)baseball, basketball, football. Soccer wasn't big then.
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