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Strictly Baby Fight Club
Topic Started: May 7 2008, 11:39 AM (103 Views)
ConfusedMonkey
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Child Thai Boxing


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Quantity surveyor Darren and his wife, nail technician Lisa, enrolled their five-year-old twins Miah and Kian in boxing lessons at their local gym seven months ago.

Darren is so passionate about the sport that he has now converted the spare room into a gym so he can give the twins extra tuition. Despite their young age, he strongly believes that encouraging them to take an active interest in this sport has enhanced the relationship he has with them.

As the father of a daughter in particular, Darren feels that it will help Miah to stand on her own two feet and encourage her to be able to take more care of herself when she is older.

Determined to make champions of his kids, they are encouraged to train three times a week and compete in the ring against other children. But pre-match jitters often get the better of Miah, who has to be coaxed into the ring on more than one occasion. "Every time she goes in that ring, there is always a worry she will start crying", admits Darren. But nonetheless he remains determined and ambitious.

For her next fight, Darren is taking no chances. He has 'bulked' her up so she is not at a weight disadvantage against her older opponent. Will this be enough for a win to make daddy's day or will the five-year-old, with a penchant for disco dancing and dressing up as a princess, go home empty-handed once again.


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At just 10 years of age, Thai is a veteran fighter and is named after his parents burning passion for Thai boxing. His dad Mark is his trainer who runs his own gym from the bottom of his garden, and both Thai and his 14-year-old sister, a double world champion, have had little choice but to share their parents' love affair with the sport. Mark and mum, Maxine, strongly believe that fitness is as important as education and will do anything to get their kids to reach their physical peak.

On top of school and homework, a normal week for Thai consists of running over 15 km, doing 400 sit ups, and at least 10 hours on the bags and sparring.

Maxine works while Mark dedicates his life to training his kids and to their fighting careers. Mark will travel anywhere in the world, forking out thousands of pounds to get his son fight experience. "My dream and his mum's dream is for him to win a stadium title", but admits Mark, "I don't know what his dream is… probably to play with his soldiers."

Whatever the dream, the reality for now is Thai's intensive preparation for his first ever cage fight – where he and his nine-year-old opponent Connor – will fight five two-minute rounds in front of over a thousand paying adults in a 23-foot metal cage.


I saw some of this program when it was on, and I had to turn it off. It was absolutely sick. The little 5 year old girl Miah lost a match, and she was in floods of tears. Not because she wanted to win, she wanted to play with her dolls. But because she'd upset her dad.

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You can actually watch it on YouTube. This is part 2 of the program - but if you go in a minute you'll see two young kids fighting with no protective gear. At about 5:45 you'll see the little girl fight.

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Ugh, that's horrific.

Pushing children into athletics is a pet peeve of mine - being in Canada, I actually get a fair bit of flack for not putting my child into hockey. While hockey is a great sport, my child has no inclination towards it, nor has he made any requests to participate in it.

But holy hell, do I ever get flamed at work from hockey parents, who claim my child is deprived.

To push a child into participating in Thai fighting is abuse, imo. If they don't have the desire, they aren't going to defend themselves properly.
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I don't understand why this is even legal. There were news stories very recently about parents who goaded their kids into fighting each other and then posted videos on YouTube - link here.

I don't see how getting five year olds to box each other is any different. It's like dog fighting - getting things to fight for your own pleasure. It's sick.
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Yeah, just another example of losers trying to accomplish stuff vicariously thru their kids.
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Everyone knows starting a kid out as young as possible at sports or musical instruments; whatever it may be is a good thing to do. I don't see a problem with teaching kids self defense. No one is going to die over a child fight. A parent can't read minds and the child may indeed have an interest or develop one for the sport. Then they would be pissed the parents didn't start them earlier so they would be further along with conditioning or mastery of an instrument. Kids are tough.

I am talking REAL training; and not just parents making their kids fight for no reason. When the kids protest and show they do not like it; then it should be discontinued and not pushed. Otherwise -- Showtime !!!!
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I don't see a problem with teaching kids self defense.



No one here is arguing that whatsoever.

Did you watch the video? I'm guessing no.
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They should let those kids use numchuks. That would be wicked pissa.
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Self defence is different. Here, you have parents putting their five year old daughter into a boxing ring with another five year old girl and screaming and swearing at her to beat the shit out of her opponent.

They even fed their five year old daughter protein shakes to 'bulk her up' for her fight so that she wouldn't be at a weight disadvantage.

I'm all for self defence. Karate is by far more controlled and disciplined, and teaches that it should never be used other than in self defence and only as a last resort. This 'sport' is teaching kids to beat the shit out of other kids. At an age where their brains are still developing, and a knock to the head could cause a lot more damage than it could to a fully grown adult. Watch the video and see how they fight.
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I felt sick watching this .... :vomit:
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