This is the Jockrell Underground Podcast number 124 sitting here with Echo Charles and I went to the

ADCC North American trials the other day, which is the submission grappling slash

Jiu-Jitsu Olympics, which takes place in a few months and you have to do trials to get to that.

Now while I was there I got a bunch of questions, talked to a bunch of people, and one of the

main questions I got was kids, getting kids into Jiu-Jitsu, keeping kids in Jiu-Jitsu, like all those kind of questions.

And the thing is, this is not just about you did too. This is about everything.

It's about everything that we do, not just with kids, but with people that we work with, with employees,

with everyone.

So I wanted to address with employees with everyone.

So I wanted to address it a little bit.

Getting people to do things, right?

But around the framework of how do you get kids do jutsu so

Number one you know I'm getting asked how old should kids be when they start how do I get them to like it what if they don't

want to do it so there's a bunch of questions there the first question is how old and

in my experience I taught kids Jiu-Jitsu at Victory MMA for about probably six years

Something along those lines and here's what I notice most of the time

As far as going to classes goes, generally speaking, girls are a little bit more mature than boys are. So generally speaking, by five girls are ready,

generally speaking, five boys are barely ready.

So it's not like a huge big difference.

I had one kid one boy the entire time I taught kids that was four years old that

was like engaged one out of many many boys I had more girls than that that were engaged. So here's the thing.

Yes, if you're going to take your kids to a Jiu-J-J- to class, maybe they can try it at four,

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