Jul
29
2010
Kung Fu for Kids age 7-12 exercise workout DVD
Posted by admin in exercise, tags: Exercise, Kids, Kung, Workout
Product Description
A fun workout for kids of all ages, with training tips for students, parents, and teachers. Kung Fu for Kids is an instructional program that teaches children the basics of traditional Kung Fu in a fun and exciting way. It starts with a simple, follow-along workout that introduces calisthenics and the basic stances, blocks, punches and kicks of the YMAA kids curriculum. It ends with a short cool-down routine to help children improve their balance, breathing, and … More >>
Kung Fu for Kids age 7-12 exercise workout DVD
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Kung Fu for Kids is a great way to get the kids moving and learning! It offers step by step instruction for beginners and offers more detailed instruction for older kids that want to delve a little deeper. I think mom and dad will enjoy the workout, too!
Rating: 5 / 5
I purchased this for my 8 year old boy. My older son took classes at a local place about 7 years ago. This video provides the same information and tehnics as we received then. It is very good. You can go at your own pace. Glad I purchased it.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a great workout dvd for all the little kids that just came from the movies watching “The Karate Kid”. This is real Kung Fu taught by real teachers. Kids love to punch and kick, jump and block. My small granddaughter came into the room as I was watching this DVD and she was able to follow right along. She is only four, but I teach taiji in my dojo so she is familiar with some of the movements. It was a workout for me too! She followed along the entire first set where the kids were practicing routines and lost interest at the end of the series where senior student were given corrections and instruction.
This will be a wonderful introduction to the basics of kung fu for those millions of kids who will go to the movies and want to be the next Master. I would think it work work really well for kids in the elementary school grades.
The only technical flaw that I saw was the instructor placed himself in the middle of the group of children in the first section of the dvd. This caused the two young kids in the front to have to turn their heads to look at him in order to follow along. It threw them off balance.
Buy this for your young kids and grand kids and then do it with them! No more couch potatoes!
Rating: 5 / 5
9 year old nephew didn’t like this.
I bought this for my 9 year old nephew and he didn’t care for this very much.
When I viewed the DVD I noticed that the children in the DVD seemed be younger.
Or to me, not very many looked to be in the age of 9 to 12, even though this is rated for 7 to 12.
I think that at this age children are very age conscious and look for activities done by people their age or older.
So there you go, what can I say. If you are going to rate a childern’s DVD for an age group then you should have children of that age or slightly older. It may be that 7 to 12 is too wide of an age range to cover at that age.
However, all children are different. And the DVD its self is very well made. The photography is well lit and focus is great and the people are always centered in the video. The menus for the DVD are also very nice. And the instructor was very patient with the childern and was very good at explaining the moves.
Rating: 4 / 5
This video really has two distinct parts. The first 30-40 minutes of the DVD works quite well by itself as a fun kids’ program that is something of a combination between an exercise video and the type of live action show that you might find on Nick Jr. or PBS. The host, Ben Warner, has a fun-loving, kid-friendly attitude, a quality required in any good children’s show host. Plus, the program is fast-paced, exciting, and even has animated breaks between sections featuring a Kung Fu Star that performs the techniques to be practiced next, a feature that’s sure to be a hit with the younger set. The instructor also brings in some moral and ethical lessons to help lead children down the path to better behavior, and at the end of this first portion of the video, they even focus on the kids, giving each of them the chance to be in front of the camera and talk about what they like best about Kung Fu. This is a segment that would not be out of place on any episode of Sesame Street. Honestly, I could easily see the first part of this video as a template for an ongoing television series designed to get kids moving.
After this first portion, the video then goes back through the techniques, using two of the more advanced students to demonstrate, and discusses each of them in more detail. This is a nice opportunity for older viewers to learn more about the techniques and how to perform them properly. Finally, the video ends with a series of testimonials from instructors and parents that describe how martial arts training can lead to positive development in children. Presumably, this was done to convince wary parents that practicing Kung Fu will not turn their children into bullies. However, I have to say that this is probably the weakest portion of the video, as it seems to go on for too long. It is at the end, though, so it is easy to simply stop the DVD before you reach this section. As a result, it in no way detracts from the value of the video.
I also want to add that the target audience of this video is kids. If you are an instructor looking for ideas to enhance a children’s class, this is probably not the best place to go. Not that it is without value in this regard, but rather, this is simply not the purpose of the video. As such, instructors looking for program-enhancing knowledge are likely to be disappointed by the content.
This video is not for instructors, though. It’s for kids. And as a video for kids, I give it top marks. It’s fresh, fun, entertaining, and was able to keep my youngest son enthralled for a good 20-30 minutes. Not bad considering that he’s not yet even two years old.
Rating: 5 / 5