I know there are at least a few of you here who are into various forms of martial arts. I'm not, so I'm asking for a little advice to point me in the right direction.

I'm looking into getting my son into some sort of program. He went from BMX Champion to scrawny video game addict. He's small as it is, but playing video games isn't helping. He's about 4'6" and 70 pounds soaking wet.

I'm looking for something to help instill a sense of discipline and fitness and since he's small for his age having some tools to defend himself wouldn't hurt either.

We're in Watsonville, so would want to look for a place fairly nearby, no further than Santa Cruz. Any suggestions?

 

any ernie reyes west coast school ... is pretty good for the young ones...

but i dont know which one is the closest

 

i go to KUGTAR in salinas...they have MMA classes for lil ones...i take the BJJ, adult MMA, BoXing...its REAL good...teach you alot of stuff..i did wrestling back im middles school and high school and this is nothing compared to it...its nice check it out they are in North Main...by the Rodeo...let me see...ill get you the web site..they have a brand new gym with a cage and all since some of their trainers there are MMA Professional..

 

im in mma as well training under joe morera who trains kimo at extreme martial arts it just open. it also teaches tang so do which focuses on discapline and there prices are very competitive to tohers and will work with u.

 

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...ndID=116277551

this is the myspace...

 

http://www.teamkugtar.com/home/index.html

 

hey i didnt know u trained mma calisuby

 

celaya proboxer goes there...carina moreno...Henry the west side strangler goes there...its sick check it out!!! i fell in love with the place.!!!

 

i just work out Pancho...its good to stay in shape and this is one way to do it...i lost 10 pound my first week...and that was only in my BJJ class...


oh and RACENUT its only 150 a month and you can take as many classes and you want....trust me youll love it and so will your lil one!!

 

what a trip nice to meet a fellow mma and bjj with a suby lol

 

hahaha thats wats up pancho....pero no suby...a 07 Accord..haha

 

wut wut wut a honda

 

Thanks for the suggestion there for Kugtar, I'll make sure to give it a look.

 

yea those mma classes are great excercise for adults but i dont suggest it for your kid. it teaches him violence and lil ones always want to show off their fighting skills. mma classes dont teach much discipline. thats more of asian traditional martial arts like tae kwon doe.

i would suggest brazilian-jiu-jitsu. and just that. no mma. i train under Ralph Gracie and i think his cousin has an academy in Santa Cruz. tkd, karate and all those are good but not as useful as bjj.

Goodluck.

 

wocabin brings up a good point, though like dirty lyrics and sexual explicitness, it's the parents themselves, in the end, that is tasked with duty of teaching kids right from wrong. Though I will say the "bad" mma guys with the excessive bro-ness are the worse of the worse. like west coast's version of guidos, except with roid rage