head still stuck deeply in sand.MMA, a made for TV contest with not so much skill involved.I say this as a fan for 43 years of Asian martial arts everything from Thai Kick Boxing, to Wushu(Kung Fu) to Karate to Hop Ke Do. The many varied styles of Chinese Kung Fu are the best. But MMA? Before promoters made it up, cage fighting(MMA) did not exist
I understand and appreciate parents concerns about sports injuries to kids – especially, head traumas ….BUT… trying to wrap a protective bubble around a kid is just plain ridiculous !
Injuries will happen, regardless of whether the sport is a contact or noncontact one. I had a cousin ( an Olympic contender ) become a paraplegic due to an accident on the uneven parallel bars. Another friend, had serious neurological damage from a head injury while competitively diving.
Sensible precautions and safety monitoring keep most kids safe playing sports. A kid’s more likely to sustain an injury playing non-organized sports than in supervised competition.
My biggest gripe and fear has to do with the parents who push their kids beyond the child’s limits – either hopes of the kid getting a scholarship to college in later life, or because the parent wants the kid to be some perverse extension of the parent’s own ego.
So that’s how I see balancing the risks and in the end I believe it comes down to decisions that parents make and the more informed those decisions are the better, I think you’d agree.
timbob2313 Premium Member over 8 years ago
head still stuck deeply in sand.MMA, a made for TV contest with not so much skill involved.I say this as a fan for 43 years of Asian martial arts everything from Thai Kick Boxing, to Wushu(Kung Fu) to Karate to Hop Ke Do. The many varied styles of Chinese Kung Fu are the best. But MMA? Before promoters made it up, cage fighting(MMA) did not exist
Linguist over 8 years ago
I understand and appreciate parents concerns about sports injuries to kids – especially, head traumas ….BUT… trying to wrap a protective bubble around a kid is just plain ridiculous !
Injuries will happen, regardless of whether the sport is a contact or noncontact one. I had a cousin ( an Olympic contender ) become a paraplegic due to an accident on the uneven parallel bars. Another friend, had serious neurological damage from a head injury while competitively diving.
Sensible precautions and safety monitoring keep most kids safe playing sports. A kid’s more likely to sustain an injury playing non-organized sports than in supervised competition.
My biggest gripe and fear has to do with the parents who push their kids beyond the child’s limits – either hopes of the kid getting a scholarship to college in later life, or because the parent wants the kid to be some perverse extension of the parent’s own ego.
Linguist over 8 years ago
So that’s how I see balancing the risks and in the end I believe it comes down to decisions that parents make and the more informed those decisions are the better, I think you’d agree.
Absolutely !