Having been teaching Martial Arts now since 1989, and teaching children since 1979, I cannot help but notice how soft children have become. Now I’m not having a right go at everyone’s child, it’s no direct sledge, just a real observation that children really do need to be stronger.
Child Development experts are so concerned about how much potential fitness is being lost in children’s play today. Child fitness continues to be one of the most alarming and untouched problems in Australia today.
Of course we can all blame the onset of the technology revolution, and there’s no doubt that our kids are getting more thumb exercise from texting than ever before, and their keyboard skills are way better than what mine were when I was 11 or 12 years of age.
But one thing’s for certain is that kids generally aren’t climbing trees, swinging on monkey bars and playing red rover and tackle in the local park as much as was done in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s.
So what’s the problem with that I ask you saying? Well we don’t really know what our kids will be line when they are in their forties and fifties, whether there musculo skeletal system will be even strong enough to hold them up (and possibly the excessive kg’s they might be carrying) in order to make it through those challenging year when we are 40 and 50 and so on.
At Factor10 Martial Arts we address this with good ol fashioned, and treasured, martial arts activities, like lifting and pushing heavy things, reaching and stretching, running, lifting our body weight, climbing ropes, jumping high things, kicking and striking things and just getting really tired and puffed, an all round body workout, so we know all our body parts are staying strong and healthy.
So watch this space, and come and check out our classes … above all, it’s so much fun.
Have a great day
Master O
