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Mixed Winnipeg Martial Arts is the fastest growing sport in North america today. It's on TV, it's on peoples clothes, it's on the gaming consoles and the action figures are in the toy section at the department store.

Now when the topic of Kiddies doing MMA comes up, it is only natural that many people cringe a little, and rightly so. The only thing most people know of this sport could be the top level of professional athletes and the rules used at that level, which will be not really something kiddies must be doing.

But the truth is, the vast majority of people learning MMA are never planning to fight in a professional match. Nearly all adults that are entering competitions won't compete under those rules. Like other fighting techinques that involve striking there's a wide selection of rule sets from amateur around professional.

What is "safe" for children to do in the martial arts has been well established over many years. Kids doing Martial Arts Winnipeg don't do whatever hasn't been getting done in Karate, Judo and Wrestling classes for years. Actually they often times do less of the riskier aspects. They do not kick to the head and they do not get extra points for high impact throws and takedowns.

A lot of the bad reputation MMA gets is just a lack of experience with it, particularly at amateur levels and with what actually happens in class. MMA classes are fun, they are safe, and they're an extremely intense workout. The last thing any fitness center owner wants is injuries, and after more then ten years of teaching I have yet to see a young child with anything close to a serious injury.

Drawn in a similar context consider our national sport. Players skate around on ice with blades on the feet slamming each other into each other, the boards, swinging sticks around and engaging in bare knuckle fist fights in nearly every game. If all you could knew of hockey was seeing several professional games, you could easily come away with a very negative perception, and cringe quite hard at the looked at children playing the game. But just about everyone has played the game at a amateur level in some form, even if it was just through fitness center class in school. We know that what happens on television is not exactly like what are the results in a game played by 8-year olds.

But aren't we just teaching kids to hurt each other?

Absolutely not. We have been teaching them the exact opposite, how exactly to perhaps not hurt each other, and how to keep themselves from getting hurt.

Kids learning MMA are training with friends, under close supervision. Safety and self-control are always top priorities. Deliberately causing injury is not tolerated in training and competition. Athletes aren't only accountable for their particular, but in addition their opponents safety. They truly are required to remain calm and act intelligently at all times. Anger and attempts to hurt others usually do not lead to victory in this sport, they result in defeat. Instead athletes must develop the capacity to remain calm under some pressure, to be patient and to act intelligently and strategically and to show good sportsmanship in victory and defeat.

Because they progress they learn leadership skills, helping younger and less experienced kiddies with techniques and strategy. Young kids helping others beat them in training is a amazing thing to see, and a great show of humility and respect. Yet every daughter or son that trains is going to do it as they gain experience. They'll learn to value helping new students and younger students succeed is more valuable then "easy wins".

To top all of it off Martial Arts demands an extremely high standard of physical fitness. Every muscle is used, out of each and every position and in every direction possible. The workout is intense and in a time of declining physical fitness being associated with fitness routine is essential for healthy living.