personally i am aggressive but i would suggest brazilian jiu jitsu a very good martial art you dont have to be aggressive but calm and at the right moment u will put them in a submission like its all ground work at our jiu jitsu place we dont worry about punches its a good way to defend yourself without punches its most effective martial art ever

jeet kune doe
look it up in google, tell him to watch enter the dragon
at least 10 times.

No one’s gonna plug a style in here? mmmmm…k that’s s first!! Here’s my suggestions for that the rest of these Answers people should have already spit out because they normally do any other time.

Karate ( all styles including, but no limited to Kenpo, Kempo, etc. )
Kung-Fu
Judo
Vale Tudo
Ninjitsu
Jujitsu ( Brazilian or Japanese )
Boxing
Muay Thai
Sambo
Krav Maga
Tae Kwon Do
Aikido
Hapkido

and any others I haven’t recommended yet. Just look in the yellow pages for local dojo’s (schools ) in you area surely one of these has to be in there.

Good Luck!!!

MMA is to aggressive. I suggest Judo,its great,and BARLEY any Fake Mcdojo’s,and one of the Most effective arts around. I study it. If your son does it long enough,he will be great at it,as Long as he doesn’t get cocky.

Cross country or track.

Past that, judo or ju jitsu. Something practical where he won’t have to rely on precision striking to immobilize an opponent.

Did you refer to your son as an it?

I suggest something fun and simple that will also improve his self esteem and character like Tae Kwon Do or Karate (none of the koryu styles). Anything like Ninjutsu or other combat martial arts would be very hard on him and may even turn him into the bully.

martial arts are great for anyone who wants to get in shape and build self confidence

any martial arts is great as long as the teachers really teaching the kids instead of just giving out pretty colored belts and charging u a ton of $$$ which is know as McDojo u give them money and they ur kids a crapy still of martial arts that not even worth the belt it came with, so make sure the school u sign him up for will have some accreditation,

any still is good, judo, kickboxing, boxing, TKD (WTF or ITF) any martial art will be good for building self confidence, dont let people say u to one particular style or another let ur kid go to a few different schools c which one he fits into, and which one u can afford to send him to for longer periods of time. i really beliefs regardless of the style as long as he is getting quality training it will benefit him…

based on my experience wrestling is great for younger kids, it teaches balance, coordination, and it will also give them a great work ethic, i know wrestling dose not have to much street fight or self defense techniques in it but it will teach confidence and aggressiveness i haven’t meet many wrestlers who have been targets of bullying them around, but thats just my 2 cents

Aikido or a traditional form of jujutsu would be good for someone his age and aggression level. Both arts do not have sparring or tournaments and all the students from white to black train together. Having him run sprints everyday could help him get out of a lot of situations also.

Umm, yeah, speaking from exprience,(I’m 15 now) I grew up not being cordinated or aggresive, it didn’t really bother my parents, and why should it bother you? Not everyone in this world is aggressive, and not everyone should be, I mean maybe he is you know a thinker a creator, and passive people are the most easy toget along with. He maybe passive aggresive, and may see fortune in oppertunity. Now, see his interests before you get him involved in something, maybe he desn’t want to play sports, maybe he rather play music, or paint…….And as for you: Accept him for who he is, your flesh and blood, and wha he might begoingthrough maye just a phase….

You could get him into a martial art, for sure. And that probably will help. I would recommend Judo because it teaches discipline, co-ordination, a bit of rolling around and grappling – which will give him confidence and will be very useful if he ever needs to fight.

But martial arts aren’t the only way of making him more self-assured. Get him into Cub Scouts or Scouts, where he’ll learn to take part in group activities and get physical with other boys as they play and horse around. (It is supervised by adults, the Scout Leaders.)

This will improve his self-esteem and show him that he can do a little rough-and-tumble with the other kids and not get hurt.

Any youth club group activities will help his self-confidence, and this alone should discourage bullying. It doesn’t have to be physical.