How many parents will start kids in Parkour/Free running and martial arts lessons early in prep for dangers in teens

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How many parents will start kids in Parkour/Free running

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and martial arts lessons early in prep for dangers in teens and tlaking 'serious not sporty martials arts'

The idea being they can learn and develop their body to escape if possible with by teen years almost 'super human' agility and if can't 'take out' attackers armed with knives without hesitation by teen years?

Call me old fashioned but I was planning on letting my DCs, when they become teenagers, choose their own hobbies. I will, however, be staring them away from parkour because it is ridiculous.

I live in an undesirable area of Edinburgh and by are large the teenagers are quite nice. I am not buying all this guff that all teenagers are violent druggies.

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By MANATEEequineOHARA Sat 29-Aug-09 10:49:48 Add a message | Report post | Contact poster

Very freaky shit! People don't generally end up in situations whereby they are escaping from a knife wielding maniac unless they are somehow implicated in (and sharing) the lifestyle of knife wielding maniacs! What better way to get them implicated than to teach them how to survive in 'that world', rather than the real one, where such things rarely happen to those of us who do not place ourselves in such a position as to endanger ourselves.

eMMN

A certain ex Harry Potter star comes to mind along with numerous instances like a boyfriend asking some yobs to stop throwing chips at his girlfriend, Others for trying to stop youths throwing rocks at tier house vandelising cars etc etc whilst others were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

these thugs not exactly rational

These certain instances are all the ones reported in the media!!! Ask yourself WHY you have heard of these cases!!!
Then get some real data (non media) and READ IT!

Best left alone. Has posted over 100 utter twaddle threads today already. Or report if you see anything worth reporting. TBH comes over slightly odd!