Winchester, MA spearheads first High School MMA program in the US

[Carol]

http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/special_reports/Mixed_Martial_Arts_in_High_School_051309

“What we teach are proper safety techniques. When students have the various grappling styles or striking styles, the instructors here always emphasize safe techniques and we always use “tap out.” So, if they're going to just show a method they say, ‘Okay and here's where you just tap,’” explains Dave Benedetto, faculty advisor to Winchester’s MMA Club.

You won't find any steel cage octagons here or fighters boasting of their conquests -- instead it's all about focus and technique.

I hope this is the first of many.

 

[LoneRider]

Interesting post. I wish they'd come up with something like this ten years ago when I was in high school, I'd have been first to volunteer.

I think if this experiment is successful this would be a nice wave of the future and re-introduce physical fitness back into the high school cirriculum (an essential thing for the video game generation).

 

[Andy Moynihan]

Don't see it lasting in THIS apology for a state. Which is a shame.

 

[LoneRider]

The fact that the program even started at all sounds like something of a miracle.

 

[searcher]

Andy, it looks like MA has one reason to live there.













For now.

 

[Blindside]

Hmmph, and I was hoping for MMA with spears....