Now I’m officially harping on it, sorry! Kids MMA Part III

Posted on April 6, 2008 by matt

 

Steve Caplan over at ‘fiveouncesofpain.com‘  wrote what I think is a very silly article entitled ‘mma for kids – you’ve got to be kidding me‘ on the kids and mma topic that I think can be summarized as such:

 

Eeek!AAaah!OMG!1! Won’t somebody think of the children!!!??!?!

 

Thankfully he added a nice clip from cbs news to help establish his point, which you can see at the bottom of this post. Addtionally he had a parade of commenters eager to agree with him, none of whom appear to have read this article from the Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, which says:

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MMA and Kids Part II – The Local Edition

Posted on April 6, 2008 by matt

MMA for kids returns to the news, this time in my local paper, the Boston Globe. This article, by Keith O’Brien,  was a bit better than one addressed in a previous post, as the reporting was much more balanced. The main unresolved issue was the lack of regulation in the state since it was determined that the Boxing Commission had no jurisdiction. 

It was kind of fun to see Tim Gillet (a student of Kenpojoe) featured, as well as the folks at Nexus Martial Arts where a middle school student I worked with is now enjoying Muay Thai. Continue reading →

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Abandoning Crap

Posted on March 31, 2008 by matt

Once again, my friend Dave has found an item that fires me up with regard to my current obsession with ‘cleaning house’ with my personal Kempo. It’s posted to his blog, and it is an interview with Ira Glass of NPR’s This American Life. Lately I’ve looked to a variety of sources from outside the martial arts for ideas on how to improve, and have found their words very telling. I know it’s not Kempo, but it is an important lesson in development in any arena in which you wish to achieve greatness. Essentially, he shoots an enormous amount of footage, and not all of it turns out well. The idea seemed great to start, but somehow just didn’t translate. To maintain the level of quality he wants, sometimes he’s got to kill a project he’s put a lot of work into when he sees that it isn’t going to end up with something really worthwhile. He puts at least as much work finding the stories as in post production. 

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