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@obadelekambon or whomever cares to share
Any advice on introducing combat esp. sparring with young Afrikans, that’s about all I can find who want to fight. I’m worried two teenagers will let their emotions get the best of them and get turned off to the art.
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Are you introducing them into a system that will keep them attached for a long duration or do you just want to introduce a few self-defense techniques. Your overall goals will impact what strategy you should adopt. Either way, although not mandatory, you can invest in basic equipment like a heavy bag, training knives and guns, training sticks (short and/or long), protective gear, kwk. That way, they will be able to train hard with less of a looming threat of long-term injury or death. I think the verbal background and introduction to what exactly it is that you would like to do with them will also set the stage for the entire exercise. The clearer they are on what it’s all about and what’s expected of them, the more smoothly the process will go.
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Also different people have different reasons for approaching our arts and sciences. Some just want to get fit, some want to get belts and ranks, some want to learn to defend themselves practically, some want a cultural experience. Find out what they are looking for initially and you can tailor lesson to their orientation or guide them to more useful paths consistent with Afrikan=Black liberation as necessary.
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meda ase for the reply, for background my little brothers (I’ve adopted through a big-little program) live in hell, there is literally no clean running water at home/ surrounding area. Essentially I would like to activate their Afrikan warrior within through the combat system of boxing first then eventually kickboxing onto copoeira, for the long term. I would be very excited to get to weapons but I’m just trying to start with baby steps: gloves and wraps.
The self-hatred and ignorance of Afrikan culture is through the roof, so my challenge and focus is how to instill the idea that everything I teach them is to fight a war against our enemies, or even that their is a war to fight in the first place. Far as what they want, there 14 n’ 15, so their taste go as far as Hollywood tells them, cars, cloths, jewellery kwk. Like many black males the anger and violence is there I just want to learn how to redirect it constructively.
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Ultimately I want to mirror in them why I started combat, for a firsthand education on military science..it’s not about belts, ranks, or looking good far as those means will achieve an end to crakkka terror domination.
Unfortunately I’ve sparred with 3-4 brothers all of whom quit after 1-2 sessions. Unless I pay $$$ to get in the ring, most black men around me don’t want to fight constructively. My only concern is like other, my lil brothers will get emotional after getting hit or asked to push themselves then quit before the going gets good.
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@sankofamaat,
I taught Capoeira at a few alternative high schools (code word for the pre- and/or post-prison holding pen) in Chicago. At my base school, Winnie Mandela Intergenerational Charter School, the students were skeptical. They said I had to beat the biggest, tallest, strongest guy in the school. Once I did, they were very open to what I had to teach them. At Charles Hamilton Houston, they were open from the jump, but I had to compete with a teenager in back handsprings — I won that by doing two and then ending in a handstand that I was able to hold. My experiences in both places was that once you show and prove, students are open to what you bring to the table.I’ve had similar experiences with sparring here, though I’m not sure why. :)
I’d like to see any footage of your sparring if you have it.Those are all possibilities, but as a brother in our survival training group used to say, “Nothing beats a failure but a try.” That said, plan out what you will do in the scenarios that you’ve considered and brainstorm responses for other possibilities you may not have thought of yet. Whatever the eventualities that happen when we bring our thoughts into the rest of the real world, with a good principle-based plan I think you will be able contend with whatever challenges that arise successfully.
Come with that video please!
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