re: #49 Rightwingconspirator

Heh, just got back from teaching a 12 year old. Every Saturday.
Okay likely nothing is good for all kids. Maybe it should be available to all, to sort out those who really do not belong. Those kids that get aggressive can usually be managed though by senior instructors. They should be separated for some one on one instruction. While supervised, I was taught to (carefully) spar or drill them into aerobic submission at the height of their adrenaline overload. Once they are so tired as to be unable to fight, they start to listen. Due to the physical condition at that moment it usually sticks. The pain in the lungs pumping away seems to reinforce the lesson of humility.

I must admit I’m an advocate of all young teen/women getting trained up at some point. To a point where they are more confident and highly unlikely to be touched or kissed without permission.

They used to give me the hardest cases at the temple where I studied and finally in ‘94 gained instructor ranking. The challenge was when that aggressive teen was bigger than I was. That was the test of my discipline.

Oh, it’s solvable, but to do it right how many instructors per school do you think we’d need?

If’n I had to insist, I’d insist on an Avoid-Escape-Flight type of art for the requirement, with one of the so-called gentle arts as follow-up once the AEF basics are mastered.