I want her to have good self defence skills by the time she is a teenager, particularly when she is taking herself to and from school. It provides an incentive for her to keep going through belt levels/grading and therefore she is less likely to lose interest. It is not a competitive team sport and therefore I don’t have to worry about weekly wins/losses and potential disappointments
It is a mixed gender sport and one of the few sports where she can train side by side with boys. She was able to start at 5 years old. Many other children’s sports don’t start until the child is older (eg Hannah can’t start local netball until she is 8 and then on substantially modified rules.)
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