1. Children’s fighting can cultivate people’s sense of competition
Competition consciousness is the basic quality that all kinds of talents in society must have. It can be said that fighting can best cultivate the competitive spirit of “not being arrogant in victory and not being discouraged in defeat”. Fighting, facing the attack of fists and feet and the competition of skills, success and failure, pain and happiness, loss and pride, must be one of the two. After a period of fighting practice, teenagers will become more vigorous and competitive when they enter the ranks of social competition as adults.
2. Children’s fighting can improve cardiopulmonary function
Continuous training for 60 minutes can not only enhance the functions of the respiratory system and blood circulation system, promote metabolism, but also eliminate blood lipids and reduce the possibility of thrombosis.
3. Children’s fighting can exercise their will
The exercise of will quality in fighting sports is multifaceted. First of all, the training of skills is very monotonous. It is a very difficult process to overcome the pain of muscles throughout the body and adapt from unadaptation to adaptation. Secondly, when two people compete, they should overcome their psychological timidity and gradually enhance their sense of daring to fight. If you encounter a strong player in the competition, you may have to be beaten. The flesh and blood pain at this time makes the weak willed person flinch, while the strong willed person will clench his teeth and fight in difficulties until he finally wins. Through many years of fighting training, we can cultivate the indomitable will quality.
4. Children’s fighting can develop their minds
Fighting is by no means a matter of going all out with brute force. Instead, we should pay attention to methods and skills, and use strategies and tactics flexibly. It is a fighting technique that wins by skillfulness. In traditional Chinese martial arts, “small wins big” and “four or two pulls a thousand pounds” are always the highest realm of fighting technology application. Therefore, fighting practice can effectively improve people’s reflection and adaptability, develop their agility and flexibility of thinking, and especially cultivate their psychological intelligence of keeping calm and calmly dealing with crises.
5. Children’s fighting can cultivate self-confidence
In modern society, due to various reasons, some children are timid, negative and prone to cry. They can’t even communicate with children of the same age. Through practicing martial arts, we can see that their self-confidence has been significantly enhanced and their personality has become much more lively and cheerful, which is vital to the growth of a child.
How to make children like fighting
1. Interest is the first prerequisite. Try to stimulate children’s interest
Parents and teachers can actively cooperate to stimulate and cultivate children’s interest in cognition, competition, imitation, communication and innovation, which will achieve twice the result with half the effort. In addition, there are many stresses on the basic movements of Wushu, and behind them are interesting stories about nature, culture and history.
2. Play with children and progress with children
Parents can easily play games with their children based on the principle of “jumping is enough” and “making a little progress every day”. Training children’s flexibility is an important benefit of martial arts. Parents can play small games with children at home to exercise their children’s flexibility, such as “touching the ground with hands” and “reaching for knees with chest (pay attention to collapsing waist and straightening chest)”.
3. Start with the cartoon characters that children are infatuated with
At the age of four or five, especially boys, they are often fascinated by cartoons, movies or TV programs with more fighting scenes. Many children carry models of “Ultraman”, “Transformers” and various monsters all day long. When teaching martial arts movements, teachers can take advantage of children’s psychology, start with the cartoon characters they are interested in, and explore the elements that can be combined with martial arts movements, which can arouse children’s unusual interest. When practicing after class, parents can also play confrontational games with children according to their interests.
What should children pay attention to when practicing fighting
1. Martial arts is a combination of endurance and strength. Chinese martial arts emphasizes overcoming hardness with softness and relaxation. Therefore, brute force or hard force cannot be used in martial arts learning, which runs counter to the essence of martial arts.
2. Martial arts learning is very physical. Parents should pay attention to the supplement of children’s nutrition and strengthen nutrition.
3. Martial arts learning is also a relatively dangerous sport. If you are not careful or make a mistake, it is easy to hurt body parts, such as the waist, back, ankle and so on.
4. Parents who do not know martial arts should not go home to instruct their children’s movements. They think they should do what they think. The coach is a professional martial arts learner. They should follow the coach’s arrangement. Parents should not teach their children how to do things.
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