We need to understand what the child wants more to be a warrior, a defender, or he wants competition and glory. Although one does not interfere. In our country, if we take the statistics, the most common type of sports martial arts, this is boxing. Russia has always been a good boxing school, and this contributes to television. But in boxing, too, there are differences. There are amateur boxing and professional boxing is.
For all their similarities, these trends still many differences. I do not advise giving children in professional boxing. But a year train with amateur boxing on the contrary would recommend. Great success for the year hardly be achieved, as well as a serious injury – not the level, and physical training is useful in any sport. It is necessary that he felt the that any sport – it is not only glory and victory and defeat it, and to a great extent sweat, pain, injury and, sometimes, blood. If after This desire still will not work, then there remains only to accept and support his initiative. Your child likes to strike down or do acrobatic tricks.
Then we can offer him work out Capoeira, which although related to martial arts, but still less traumatic and more effective (not to be confused with effective) and nice looks. Or maybe he just stands there to do gymnastics or acrobatics. In any case, you can not make it compulsory to engage in any sport. We must try to explain to him the benefits of such activities. Everywhere, as he had not worked, has its champions, its great men or athletes. The main thing that he liked it, so he put the soul into training given to the sport completely. Only then can we achieve good success in any endeavor. And your task, help him to choose.