Cage fighting for kids

[Aussie]

Amazing.....Again, worth preserving. WTF can't you make a post without gibber, given the spelling and grammar checks so readily available?

Get thee to the "Congrats AiA Thread." Question there for you to answer.

Aussie - there are plenty of trash threads here which you can disrupt with one of your obsessions - but please leave those half way decent threads alone so others can contribute peacefully. You are such a petty person.

In regard to firecrackers - yes Cracker night was fun when we were kids, but who gave a stuff about boys losing their fingers - my concern was the cruelty inflicted on cats and dogs by sadists tying bungers to them.

This Thread is about cage fighting...... How dare you mantra......endorsing an interruption about cracker night.

[The Artist formerly known as Sappho]

The context looks cheap.

What it needs is a 21C make over that is in sympathy with its ancient roots.

PS: By the way, I got side tracked with this post and found an excellent wiki summary on the rules of Ancient Greek Wrestling... It was interesting. Worth a look.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_wrestling

[Aussie]

I thought you were unconcerned about context?

[The Artist formerly known as Sappho]

I thought you were unconcerned about context?

We are talking about a combat game that has been with with humanity since the ancients. Even though the rules vary in time and place, the game remains obviously a wrestling match and has done for aeons... since before we could write and draw at least... with almost absolute, if not absolute continuity. I don't think there has ever been an age without wrestling. So yeah... context matters.

[Black Orchid]

Not sure I agree with cage fighting because I think it leaves the door wide open for parents to shove their kids in a ring just to toughen them up. The "fight or be bullied" mentality doesn't always work.

[annielaurie]

Not sure I agree with cage fighting because I think it leaves the door wide open for parents to shove their kids in a ring just to toughen them up. The "fight or be bullied" mentality doesn't always work.

A common sense reply, and I agree ..

[The Artist formerly known as Sappho]

Not sure I agree with cage fighting because I think it leaves the door wide open for parents to shove their kids in a ring just to toughen them up. The "fight or be bullied" mentality doesn't always work.

A common sense reply, and I agree ..

Sorry Ladies I disagree. First up, it's not a common sense reply. Common sense would call the sport what it is... cage wrestling. It is not cage fighting. Fighting and wresting are different kinds of strategy sports. Boxing is fighting.

Secondly, Black Orchid's argument says we should not sanction it because a minority might not act with appropriate intentions. Common sense would show more consideration for the majority who are acting appropriately and put measures into play to counter the inappropriate.

There is nothing wrong with children wrestling. The context is cheap and definitely needs improvement, but the sport itself is good and wholesome and has been around since forever without attracting negative attitudes towards it.

Definitely they need to ditch the cage... it has ugly connotations which is not good to associate with children.

[Black Orchid]

I have no problems with children wrestling as such. It is the connotations regarding the cage I find it hard to come to grips with

[Neferti]

I think that everyone's brats should be caged, permanently, at the supermarket for a start! Since parents have lost the initiative to serve out punishment in the form or a slap on the wrist for naughty toddlers for fear of being taken to Court we have mayhem. I have been at the supermarket having my hearing penetrated by some child who wanted something and was told he couldn't so he had a tantrum for the next 45 minutes until he got himself in a lather and his poor mother was unable to do anything when a good slap would have stopped this nonsense. You can NOT "negotiate" with 2 year olds ....

[boxy]

It's a popular rant... "back in my day, kids were all little darlings, now they are the spawn of satan". I don't buy it.