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A NY Times advertisement led me to the Responsibility Project (which looks like an advertising campaign from Liberty Mutual…though the site is suprisingly slow) where they discussed MMA and kids–two subjects which interest me.  I’ve blogged about kids and MMA before, although my previous blog post was about kids at the high school level, not little kids.  The RP blog post led me to this site, where they host the video above.

I found this article highly disturbing.  Little kids don’t have adequate self-control to use dangerous techniques responsibly.  In judo, we don’t teach armbars or chokes until a person is at least 12 or 13.  It’s incredibly irresponsible to teach them these moves earlier than that.  Kids are kids.  You can’t expect them to exercise that much judgment.