Steve
Mostly Harmless
Hey coming in late, but the way i view rolling with kids is that it’s all about them. Giving them a bigger, stronger person to try and move around and providing only enough resistance to push them a little. I didn’t expect to get anything more than a warm up out of it and have a little fun.
When my older daughter trained, she was little… maybe 75 lbs. she was small for her age but is smart and analytical, and if the coach told her to do something “this way” that’s what she’d do. Trust the technique.
So I walked in and a blue belt… 185lbs and an amateur MMA fighter at the time, was describing how my daughter caught him with an RNC. He really played up the story, but there is no doubt that when she locked her tiny arms around his neck it must have been like a garrote. Sure, he probably let the technique go longer than he should have and had he been fully resisting, of course she would have been thrown across the room. But he was genuinely surprised that she pursued that choke so quickly and aggressively and that he tapped out of necessity. That taste of success she experienced was really motivating for her. I think that’s what it’s all about.
When my older daughter trained, she was little… maybe 75 lbs. she was small for her age but is smart and analytical, and if the coach told her to do something “this way” that’s what she’d do. Trust the technique.
So I walked in and a blue belt… 185lbs and an amateur MMA fighter at the time, was describing how my daughter caught him with an RNC. He really played up the story, but there is no doubt that when she locked her tiny arms around his neck it must have been like a garrote. Sure, he probably let the technique go longer than he should have and had he been fully resisting, of course she would have been thrown across the room. But he was genuinely surprised that she pursued that choke so quickly and aggressively and that he tapped out of necessity. That taste of success she experienced was really motivating for her. I think that’s what it’s all about.