Hockey school comes down hard on coach who was teaching eight-year-olds to fight

A coach who was teaching eight-year-old children how to properly fight in a hockey game at a school in Russia has been banned from ever teaching lessons at the school again. The senior coach of the Lions TsKhM school, Sergei Suyarkov, told Sport-express.ru that the coach had nothing to do with the organization at all.

"He is forbidden to appear at the school," said Suyarkov.

According to Suyarkov, it was the mothers of the children who arranged the session and paid the coach for the instruction. Sport-express commentator Alexey Shevchenko is accusing the mothers of protecting the coach and called them "crazy women."

Shevchenko is behind the kerfuffle over the video (which is posted at the end of this story) in Russia. He was the first to bring it to a major media outlet and has expressed disbelief that anyone would want a child of eight to receive this type of training. Many see nothing wrong with it at all, saying kids should learn at an early age how to protect themselves in these situation.

As stated in our first article on this video, where you land on the issue of kids learning to fight in hockey at eight years old is entirely a matter of opinion. In fairness, eight does seem young but whose to say what's the proper age for this type of training?

In case you haven't had a chance to see it yet, here's the video footage. The training is shown for the first minute or so of the video.

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