Posted on 06/30/2021 4:52:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A 7-year-old boy died Tuesday when taken off life support after sustaining severe brain damage during a judo class in which he was repeatedly thrown to prove he wasn’t up to the challenge of martial arts.
The Taiwanese child, identified only as Wei Wei, had been on life support for close to 70 days since the April 21 incident, according to local media outlets. On Tuesday, after Fengyuan Hospital doctors informed the boy’s family that both his blood pressure and heart rate levels were dropping, they chose to remove him from life support, the BBC reported.
The child’s uncle filmed the April judo class. He was, at the time, motivated to record the course as proof to the boy’s mother that judo may not be a good fit for him.
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Probably the Jews.
Judo is fine, but he was with the wrong teacher.
A good teacher would fit him with his level.
She probably thinks Judo is spelled "Jewdo".
They invented Judo, right?
Now if it was a Krav Maga class....
Seriously, injuries aside, I don’t think that level of throwing him would help him learn.
Truth to tell, being thrown around a room 27 times isn't really a good fit for most anybody.
Since he died in Taiwan, I’m wondering.
Definitely a crappy coach. He had the kid be thrown by a child twice the size of him..
Next up: A 10 year old dies after repeated punches from Mike Tyson. See, this proves he wasn’t cut out to be a boxer!
Someone else already gave the problem here. He had a teacher who didn’t know how to bring him along at his own level.
No. If you get knocked down once, or a few times in Martial arts Class, you learn. Long before 27 times it loses it’s educational value.
Prayers up for the little one that died.
Or maybe see he needed another year or two to develop coordination or whatever he was lacking at the moment.
Prayers for that poor child and his family.
I completely agree. Real martial arts is willing to keep at the beginning until you can prove your skills.
I took 3 judo lessons. Primary goal : protect your head when thrown. Learn how to fall while protecting your head. Sensei say: he who lands on head not soon get up.
Poor kid. Too young to know he was being smashed. Horrible story.
“They invented Judo, right?”
Judo was created in 1882 by Kano Jigoro Shihan in Japan. But like all the arts, which country you go to and whose style you wish to employ is always a little bit different. And there are some names you can refer to that created their own art.
The martial arts that Chuck Norris knows include Tang Soo Do, Judo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Karate and Taekwondo, holding black belts in each one. He has also studied Hapkido, Kenpo, and Arnis, and has created his own martial art known as Chun Kuk Do.
Bruce Lee started with wing chun and designed his own called jeet kun do many years later. He learned a lot of his arts from the streets as a profound street fighter.
Jackie Chan trained martial arts and acrobatics for a decade in the Chinese Opera. When he entered the film industry, he had learned Hapkido and is also known to have trained in other martial art forms such as Karate, Judo, TaeKwonDo, Chinese boxing, and Jeet Kun Do.
Sammy Hung also was in the Peking Opera with Chan and was a stunt man for many years in China before he gave Chan his first movie work.
Jet Li, mainly studied wushu. tai chi, and baguazhang or pakua chang.
All are shadows of the original fighting arts and have been around for thousands of years and changed may times.
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