im 14, a girl, and want to start training in muay thai...parents are worried about safety, financial issues and about having to practice all the time...please if you have any tips or advice on how to convince them please tell me.
PS. I am involved in guitar lessons currently and i think that may be one of the main reasons the financial may be an issue but any suggestions anyways to convince them???THX|||Talk to the club you want to join. Ask them how to respond to your parents legitimate concerns. They have probably thought about these things already, and should be able to offer some assurance to your parents.
You should also be concerned about your safety. Striking sports must be strictly controlled to prevent injury. Muay Thai has a history of athletes with eye injuries and nerve deadening in the legs. So do your own homework too. Especially check out their rules on full contact sparring.
I box, and boxing is especially brutal. Perhaps Muay Thaihas a safer track record. You can check that out too.
If both you and your parents are convinced that safety issues are managed satisfactorily, then the comfort zone is there so you can go ahead.
If either you or your parents are unconvinced, then more communication with the school is needed. Your parents have a responsibility for your safety, and they will probably want to error on the side of caution. You should respect that until you are an adult, and your parents should respect your desire to train in a martial art.
Take an adult approach, and if you lose, take that in an adult way too.
One final point: most martial arts are pretty useless for self-defense. Take a self-defense course to find out why. (They will teach you to avoid trouble, conflict resolution, how to run away if you get into trouble, and how to do a few simple defense strategies if you are cornered so you can then run away). Using most martial arts on the streets will just give you more trouble (law suits, revenge attacks, etc.)
Good luck|||Get your parents to have a read of this if you want.
Cost-Combat sports are cheaper than most ball sports, and sports where you need a lot of equipment to compete. Muay thai all you usually need is yourself equipment wise, and then pay the membership/insurance etc.
Safety/gender issues-
You can regulate your level of involvement. Coaches are generally good in this sport since they are real ex-fighters, down to earth, and will not be doing stupid stuff like trying to get you breaking boards with your head or %26quot;kicking you 200 hundred times in a row to toughen you up%26quot;
You talk to the coach to decide whether you just want to do it for fitness, spar, or fight. Plenty of women are doing classes just for the fitness.
Injuries- Combat sports and martial arts rate lowly on serious injuries.Do statistics searches for injury rates or check universities for sport science reports.
Ball and team sports tend to be worse for breaks and joint reconstructions.Women%26#039;s basketball and netball are two of the worst for ruining ACL ligaments in the knee for example.
Long distance sports are the worst for wear and tear of leg knee and ankle cartilages.Water polo worst for shoulder reconstructions etc.
The only bad combat sport is pure boxing for head injuries, which occurs in the professional ranks due to the fact they spar heavily 100-200 times per fight.
For amateur boxing the sport produces less head trauma than rugby football, and mauy thai slightly less than amateur boxing because they concentrate on the legs more than anything.
Self defence aspect- After working doors for almost ten years I can say its one of the few martial arts that actually work on the street, and people doing a full contact style like that are less likely to run into problems.
For two reasons.
1.they don%26#039;t go looking for problems if they are getting it out of their system in training(mostly a plus for boys)
2. They carry themselves in a more confident manner. This makes them seem less like prey to predators.(mostly a plus for girls). This is a very big deal, take it from me|||Safety should be an issue. What if you were walking home and someone tried to kidnap you? If you knew some sort of martial arts it would help. They wouldn%26#039;t hurt you in the training, they would show you what needs to be done and how to do it. Plus look at it as a sort of exercise and physical training.
Decide once your guitar lessons are done then you would like to take these. Financial issues, well if you are in one extra curricular activity then they should understand. Not having to pay for two but only one at a time.
I support your effort and hope this helps to any sort|||whoah your in a problem i used to do guitar but quit and took up tae kwon do hmmmm you can do both if you want but your parents mite have a problem with that but if you have to do one and not the other choose the one that means most to you i think a martial art is much more productive and it can keep you fit and help you in defense what if some guy tries to rape you are you gonna do play smoke on the water to him or are you gonna punch he%26#039;s lights out then knee him in the face my friend does muay thai with he%26#039;s brother and its changed him into a better person go with martial arts!|||Present them with the statistic comparing active/physically people with inactive ones. Then give them the stats on rape and domestic abuse.
Last, ask them if they really want you to suffer those horrible fates.|||if you have been doing guitar for a while jhust stop doing lessons and continue to teach your self and try to start a band. As for the karate tell them that muay thai will help you defend your self which you will need to help defend your self.|||Make em watch a Tony Jaa movie. Then they%26#039;ll see the effectiveness of Muay Thai in self defense. But Tony Jaa%26#039;s moves are ancient Muay Thai and his moves are frighteningly deadly. So how about a visit to your local Muay Thai place, they%26#039;ll see how it can keep you in shape and how effective it is in self defense.
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