Has any one seen the advert for the programme (also on the news) about small children fighting(organised fighting by grownups ) as young as the age of five.
I have no problem with children learning martial arts as a sport if that is what they want to do. but from the adverts I have seen for this programme . it appears to be run by manic parents who seem to be getting a kick out of this for there own ends !!!! they come across as very sick people , as you see one young girl crying as she dosnt want to do it and is pushed back in. This girl is made up with make up and hair spray like those poor children in ball room dancing , so she looks good for the camera's filmed by these sick parents.. Are these people normal ?
Is this the next good night out in the suburbs .... lets go see some little kids kick the *** out of each other for fun ??
Yes, I also saw the trailer for this programme, the parents reminded of the baying louts seen on programmes about dog fighting.
Where are Social Services when they are needed????
I was once asked by a chum, years ago to support his son's football club match.
Baying parents?
These poor little lads were doing their best, whilst red-faced beer-gutted fathers ran up and down the side of the pitch, screaming and shouting at their kids to spur them on.
It was, for a rugby man, a prime example of a dysfunctional society and increased my already existant hatred of and for football.
Mindless morons.
I did see the trailer: now martial arts used to be all about inner self-discipline, not kicking the $h1t out of another child.
How very sad for the children.
It's just an example of the pushy parents thing.
Though there was a controversy a few weeks ago which ended up with a video of small kids fighting being taken off YouTube, and I believe the local police and social services got involved. But I suspect in that case the motives were a little more suspect than in the 'proper' film. See here
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I agree this is a horrible way to exploit children.
Let's hope it puts some of them off violence altogether. Like a friend of mine who had 3 daughters who were always squabbling and scrapping. One day she made them go out into the garden and fight eachother until they cried with exhaustion. They kept the peace for a long time after that.
I read a piece about this in Daily Mail yesterday . One of the comments was along the lines that it is filling the void left by the banning of dog fighting , let's hope that this actvity is stamped out too.
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