When is the proper age to start a child boxing...Help please.

**LUCKY_13** · 06-01-2007 04:10 AM

Originally Posted by Sharla

People who gang up on people - especially those weaker than them are such cowards. Did that compel you to take up boxing?

My brother wash bashed in his late teens by a mob - not too badly hurt luckily but since then he's got into judo and grown into a 6 foot 4 man - now he doesn't run! He actually prefers to be backed into a corner where he can take them one at a time and dislocate as many joints as possible -

I do think it's only a matter of time before guys like the ones who bashed you run into someone who hurts them. Someone like you or my brother who already know what they're about and what to do.

In all honesty, I was already doing boxing (just training), the fact is I was 60 kgs with little muscle mass or strength. These guys were pretty friking built. Like, one of them probably would of beaten me one-on-one at that time, but they didn't do it like that, they had two of them and hit me in the back of the head first.
So I was stunned, didn't know what was happening, and yeah they went 'all out' on me. Woke up in hospital, intensive care unit.
I did boxing about 12 months after that, competition wise.
Nowdays if it happened again, I would try talk it out and if that didn't work, would use the boxing skills only enough to defeat them. I wouldn't do what they did to me, I have a better heart then that, haha.

**Sharla** · 06-01-2007 05:33 AM

Yeah I appreciate it's always better to talk your way out of it - some people don't want to talk though. My brother got beaten up because he looked at these guy's car because they were driving with a flat - they asked him what he was looking at - he told them they had a flat and something about that was insulting?!?! They didn't want to talk they were out driving around in a group looking for someone to bash.

**LUCKY_13** · 06-01-2007 06:40 AM

Yeah that's pretty crap! Makes them feel ever so big when they hit in packs!
It's funny though, when these little 'street gangs' go places looking for trouble and run into one of the local bikie gangs. I've seen it happen a few times. The 'street gangs' either get humiliated and ejected or attempt to start trouble but are quickly beaten. Haha.

**Sharla** · 06-01-2007 06:50 AM

I've never seen that but I think it says something for their lack of intelligence to try something like that! I guess they're bound to get their arses kicked at some stage!

**southakron314** · 06-02-2007 01:39 AM

so how old do you think is a good age...

**Chris Nagel** · 06-02-2007 02:51 AM

Hey akron, why don't you play around with him, show him how to close his hand into a fist and let him hit your hands. Make a game out of it if he's having fun you can try some other things. I wouldn't make him train or go to a boxing gym, just let him be kid and if his interest is in boxing you can do other things for the time being. Besides that I don't think he can go full at it until he's 14 just like Scrap said. I've heard of a lot of kids pushed into boxing at an early age and many of the burn out in their teens or just lose interest. Of course there's a few exceptions but their fathers sacrificed what it meant to be a father so they could be a "coach."

**southakron314** · 06-09-2007 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by Chris N.

Hey akron, why don't you play around with him, show him how to close his hand into a fist and let him hit your hands. Make a game out of it if he's having fun you can try some other things. I wouldn't make him train or go to a boxing gym, just let him be kid and if his interest is in boxing you can do other things for the time being. Besides that I don't think he can go full at it until he's 14 just like Scrap said. I've heard of a lot of kids pushed into boxing at an early age and many of the burn out in their teens or just lose interest. Of course there's a few exceptions but their fathers sacrificed what it meant to be a father so they could be a "coach."

He knows how to throw the one and two. He keep his led foot facing me and his back foot planted so he can push off. Im just working on that with him. Im not going to get into the foot work tilll later. He can throw throw the one two and that is about it. We live in a tough area and he is going to need how to defend himself. He is extreamly strong for his age. So at least he has that.