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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Yes, karate. I told my ds he cold try it when we moved here. However, in this area for his age, all beginning karate classes have a 2 day/week commitment. This makes it much more expensive and time consuming that we had budgeted, so I told him no. He was old enough to understand.

[b]I don't mind that commitment if he liked karate and showed promise in it, but it felt like an excessive commitment for a kid who had never even tried the sport.[/b] I know we did other sports, like baseball and soccer, with similar weekly practices but at the beginner level they are much cheaper and the season commitment is much shorter.[/quote]

You think 2 days a week is an excessive time commitment?  Honestly, if two days a week is too much of a commitment, your child will not ge able to play any sports, ever.

More importantly, I'm having trouble understanding the logic of "we would make the commitment if he liked the sport and showed promise, but not for a sport he's never tried." How exactly is he supposed to show promise in the sport before you ever let him try it?

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Yes, excessive and expensive for a kid with zero experience who just wanted to dabble in karate.  No problem with the same practice schedule for a dabbler in a cheap 3 month sport like baseball or soccer.  I wish karate was like dance or gymnastics where they still offered once a week absolute beginner classes so kids can see if they enjoyed it or showed promise befor e making that big financial commitment.  There is no fun, low commitment entry point in karate for beginner older kids. [/quote]

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