Would you let your kid box?

Discussion in 'Boxing Training' started by Jazzo, Aug 2, 2010.


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  1. Jazzo

    Jazzo Non-Facebook Fag Full Member

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    I would attempt to inform him of the neuroscience and inevitable chronic brain damage that he will suffer (so he could make the decision beased on fact). But how to do that when he is 7? You can't, so you make the decision for him. Right?

    I don't have kids.

    What did you guy's do?
     
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  2. Mr. V.I.P.

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    Definitly. I will start him as young as possible. I want a floyd mayweather.
     
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  3. Danny-boy

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    :deal

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  4. paloalto00

    paloalto00 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I'll start him at around 8, I'll let him decide whether he wants to stay with it
     
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  5. RDJ

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    My nephew just turned 5 and my brother asked me to start training him this year. No sparring of course for a loooooooooong time but he needs to know how to control distance and throw a punch.
     
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  6. Jazzo

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    When would you let them start sparring?
     
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  7. Bogotazo

    Bogotazo Amateur Full Member

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    If my kid really took a liking to it after showing him a few things at a young age, I'd let him go amateur and give him a great defense. Going pro is another story, a bridge to be crossed at the right age, but I'd probably discourage it unless it was the one talent and dream they had.
     
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  8. Jazzo

    Jazzo Non-Facebook Fag Full Member

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    I love the sport but aside from the health issues which are my number 1 concern by 1 million miles, if his dream was going pro I'd have to advise him that it was... well, a game in which fighters are pimped.
     
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  9. Mr. V.I.P.

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    Which sport isn't? Every player is owned by someone.
     
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  10. RDJ

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    That's only true for the pro game, like in any sport really. If you talk about the sport boxing, you're talking about the amateur game.
     
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  11. Kevin_Wright

    Kevin_Wright King of Awesomeland Full Member

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    I definitely want her in a sport, but I'd rather her pick it. If she likes boxing I'd let her as long as she had a good coach. If the coach was a quack-ass nut-job then hell no.
     
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  12. Jazzo

    Jazzo Non-Facebook Fag Full Member

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    Ummm... Boxing is very, very different from other sports.

    Don King. That guy can't go and take an NFL team. Not a chance.

    But he works through the cracks in boxing. It is totally unregulated in that sense.

    It is corrupt. All the sanctioning bodies are corrupt.


    18 thousand of them.

    Ring Magazine is corrupt.

    And boxers themselves, such a Chris Eubank will claim it is a "mug's game".

    C'mon dude, you know what I am talking about.
     
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  13. Jazzo

    Jazzo Non-Facebook Fag Full Member

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    Yes, I think that is an essential point myself.
     
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  14. Jazzo

    Jazzo Non-Facebook Fag Full Member

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    I was just about to ask about daughters :good
     
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  15. RDJ

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    You forgot to say no frog.
     
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