I don’t know what it is about this comment but it is cracking me the hell up! I just keep visualizing a grown man planting a foot on a little kids chest and he goes flying like 20 feet into a wall. Actually, I am visualizing a midget.
…and please, no flames from the midgets on this board. We are all created equal my friends!
Went to the school’s website, but it looks like it hasn’t been updated this year.
Well, maybe the kid just helps out during the children’s classes. I’ve known kids who do that. It isn’t teaching, but they might have written that in the article to make a bigger deal out of it.
If that’s not the case and the kid is teaching… God help us.
we have kids help out during lower belt kid’s classes once they get their junior brown, if they want to. it helps cement their learning and gives them better understanding of their material to show it to someone else (as well as helping them learn some responsibility and greater discipline). that said, it is entirely possible that the article’s writer exaggerated the importance of this little one to puff them up in the article. or maybe he is the newly incarnated dali llama of lotus palm society.
That seems likely. It’s human nature and pretty common to puff on these types of things. How many people have taken a one-day seminar with X and then claim to have trained with X. Factually correct, but not an entirely accurate picture. Probably a similar thing here. A 9 year-old gets up in front of class to demonstrate a few techniques for the sensei and then helped some other kids…and now he can claim to have instructed.
The question is whether it is simply the instruction part which has people flabergasted, or simply that a 9 year-old is a blackbelt?
That’s sounds reasonable. It’'s even possible that it’s a junior black belt… I’ve seen situations where kids can go up to a junior black belt and then start at an adult brown belt at 16…
I’ve seen situations where kids can go up to a junior black belt and then start at an adult brown belt at 16…
we actually have 3 kids that have done just that (we let them join the adult class in their teens on an individual basis, the highest junior grade black is the equivalent of the last grade of adult brown). one of these kids will be quite a little badd-ass when he gets some more muscle mass.
Actually our school does the same thing, though insted of taking the childrens program I went stright for the badass adult program. So when I turn 16, I just keep going like I’ve been doing.
