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as far as good quality training these are my two options.
Wrestling, they can always do BJJ later but it is hard to find wrestling programs for adults.
I personally can't stand BJJ and my first instinct is to tell you wrestling.
All this progressive nonsense about little kids deciding things lol be a parent to your kids not the other way around. Kids will often decide to just sit home and play video games if you let everything be their choice. Chores? Oh you decide. How hard to work in school? Oh you decide.
No. You raise your kids and make the decisions that you feel are best for them until they are mature and grown enough to make their own. That’s what being a parent is about and why this generation has all these lazy do nothing kids because too many parents think “let’s let Timmy decide!!” When he is 5 years old and has no idea of the implications of his decisions whatsoever
That doesn’t mean I’m saying try to push them into one activity solely or make the professional athletes but at that young age you are supposed to guide them. They will have plenty of time to make decisions later
Actually, this is becoming less and less true. Almost completely across the board. If you look at all of our world team members, all of the All Americans, and most of the state champions in top states, they are what we call in wrestling "age groupers." These are kids who specialize, or at least focus heavily in wrestling from a young age, somewhere between 5-9 years old. You will still find the occasional All American who started in 9th grade, but they are either extremely rare, or they are heavyweights.The instructor and the interests of the kids are the main determinants.
1) There's no reason 5-7 year old kids should play the same sport year round, so no reason they have to commit. Early childhood specialization is basically worthless outside of elite gymnastics for doing anything but getting you ego trophies for beating other small undeveloped children who barely train. Mark Shultz didn't take wrestling seriously until his Sophmore year of HS and lo and behold, all the kids that started at 5 didn't beat him despite the decade head start. Prior to puberty really all you should be doing is keeping kids active and exposing them to a variety of activities in the hope that 1) They'll find something they actually enjoy 2) they'll socialize with other kids in a healthy fashion. People want to dog on it, but participation really is more important than how good badly you kids can beat the ass of some random 7 year old.
2) It's probably the case that a wrestling coach who is coaching elementary to middle school aged kids has more experience with that bracket than an random BJJ instructor has with that developmental bracket, but that's only probability. Ask the coaches about their experience and approach to youth athletics.