Where a Hispanic Catholic, and a Computer Geek write about Gun Rights, Self Defense and whatever else we can think about.
One of those advertising postcards that are left at your door step. This one I have to agree with as the right after school program solving an issue.
And boys can even get skills to charm the ladies in a near future. I am still amazed I managed to catch the missus with my two idiotic left feet and total inability to dance.
Semi-retired like Vito Corleone before the heart attack. Consiglieri to J.Kb and AWA. I lived in a Gun Control Paradise: It sucked and got people killed. I do believe that Freedom scares the political elites.
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Our son thrived in Karate. It gave him confidence.
All it took at his new elementary school was to drop some bully picking on him. Gave him peace for years. Not one kid would screw with him.
It also gave him a bit of stress early in high school from having to suppress the urge to kick morons that needed it in the head.
It also gave him discipline that transferred to other areas of study
I put the eldest boy in an afterschool karate program when he started Kindergarten. He just got his brown belt about a month before he finished third grade.
Unfortunately, with the shutdowns last spring, Sensei lost his lease and we’ve been doing virtual karate over Zoom for a year and I don’t think he’s going to go back to doing an afterschool program. Obviously there’s no sparring in that kind of situation but it’s better than nothing, and I studied a slightly different version of karate in my youth so I’m able to operate as a helper for his sensei.
My kids are like 4th percentile in size for their age.
They’re also extremely smart.
Small + Smart = bullied
This was a pre-emptive anti-bullying measure on my side.
When I was ten, the church held a raffle fundraiser for… something. Anyhow, my mother won three months of ballroom dancing lessons at the local Arthur Murray Dance Studio franchise. My dad wouldn’t go, so she took me. I stuck around for three years. I learned the Waltz, Tango, Swing, and Foxtrot. I was merely average at them, but I did learn them.
By sheer happenstance, the late Nineties saw a brief resurgence of Swing music and the Neo-Swing genre (you may remember Cherry Poppin’ Daddies ‘Zoot Suit Riot’) as well as Latin Pop (you probably remember Ricky Martin ‘Livin’ la Vida Loca’ and definitely remember ‘Macarena’). The music was popular and the associated dancing absolutely fascinated the girls… But the only boy in school who knew any of the dancing was the too weird, too skinny, gangly geeky kid (me).
At the homecoming dance Senior Year, I dragged my lesbian goth friend out onto the dance floor for one neo-swing or another. She didn’t know the dance, but she knew how to follow my lead and I made her look good.
I had a dozen girls ask me to dance over the rest of the night.
Trust me. When your a 17 year old geek, getting a chance to (literally) tango with varsity cheerleaders is totally worth having to have given up some Thursday afternoons when you were a 13 year old geek.
Bruce Lee was an accomplished dancer, and gave cha-cha lessons on his way to America for pin money.
Skills overlap in fascinating ways.
Most young men hate to dance. Most young women love to dance. Do the maths.
I don’t have any sons or nephews, but if I did, I’d definitely be encouraging them to take dance lessons.
Dancing builds self-confidence, which women find attractive; dancing encourages physical fitness, which women find attractive; regular dance practice builds self-discipline, which women find attractive and is just generally useful… But, most importantly, dancing gives a young man a chance to spend a lot of time in very close physically contact with lots of young women.
Hey Migggy;
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What are you talking about…the misses shanked you into it, LOL