The best age to learn martial arts

The best age to learn martial arts is after the age of four.

After the age of 4, children's physical coordination and flexibility develop rapidly, and their attention, memory, thinking ability and behavior control ability are obviously improved, which provides good conditions for learning Wushu. At this time, you can start learning martial arts. However, children's learning and sports ability is not high after all, and they are only suitable for learning some simple martial arts movements and action combinations. Exercise should not be too much. When practicing at home, the content should be compact, preferably no more than 30 minutes.

Children have more advantages in learning Wushu: they can promote the all-round development of their bodies, cultivate correct body posture, improve their qualities such as speed, coordination, agility, strength and flexibility, develop their sense of time and space, rhythm, muscle control, imagination, attention, image, sports memory and imitation ability, and cultivate traditional national Wushu virtues such as respecting teachers and loving friends, unity and mutual assistance, hard study, self-discipline, self-confidence, self-esteem, courage and perseverance.

Matters needing attention in learning Wushu

Exercise intensity should be controlled. We must control endurance and strength exercises, such as flexibility exercises and short-term speed exercises, and resolutely refuse long-term boring exercises and high-intensity exercises such as 100-meter running. At the same time, we also need to pay attention to nutrition, because learning martial arts consumes a lot of physical strength, so parents must pay attention to enhancing their children's nutrition.

Be careful when doing strength exercises. The most typical strength exercise is weightlifting, but it was very powerful at that time. Unfortunately, bones and joints will calcify in advance, and your child will never grow tall. Parents had better accompany their children to class. Parents should track their children's learning process, pay attention to the master's practice methods, and avoid accidental injuries to their children. Wushu can strengthen the body and resist the enemy's attack. So children can choose to learn martial arts.