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Some kid wouldn't stop choking my kid even after he tapped out. (These are elementary school age kids) The instructor told the kid to stop and he wouldn't, so the instructor had to break the kid's grip on my kid's neck. My kid was pissed and sat out the rest of the class. When we went to leave he had problems talking and got pretty upset.
My other kid said the choker had been told he had "two strikes" before that but didn't know what happened. Choker has also jokingly thrown punches, but pulled short, at my other kid, I guess joking around.
We've had good luck in Utah. The kids are nice and the classes are fun. My kids have been thrown around by some pretty big kids but they just laugh. The place in NY seemed like it had more mean kids, I don't, maybe my kids were just younger.
I never took classes until I was 14 and never saw anyone have to be stopped choking someone. Maybe this shit happens in little kid classes but I haven't seen it before. I'm thinking about telling them my kids aren't wrestling with this kid anymore. I don't need my little kids getting choked unconscious. :/
My kids are in a ton of activities. I really think the time would be better spent on tennis lol. Oh my kids like karate better and want to keep going.
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I took Chinese Kenpo and a few other styles between early teens and mid 20s...
Of those, Chinese Kenpo was my favorite and the most useful.
Also, it was the hardest to learn. Each rank had 2 Katas or Forms and like 15 techniques (or moves) to deal with different scenarios.
and they stacked on as you went up, in testing, you covered everything you had learned back to the start.
So
1st Belt 2 Katas, 15 Techniques
2nd Belt, 4 Katas, 30 Techniques
3rd Belt, 6 Katas, 45 Techniques
Brown and Black added sparing 1 or more opponents, so the advanced tests, could get pretty lengthy...
I feel like my training and conditioning really helped me not get my pasty white, ginger butt kicked every day in H.S...
I was never a bully, because I do not like to hurt people mentally or physically, but I wasn't going to get picked on or walk away, even when I should have.