Can I train with my daughter?

Yes, and it works better than most people expect.

Part of it is practical. You get a drilling partner roughly your size who you are not nervous about touching. Grip breaks and getting up off the ground need a real person doing it to you, and a stranger is the thing that puts most women off doing them properly.

Part of it is not practical at all. A teenage girl who watches her mother turn up, get it wrong, and keep going learns something you cannot tell her. It also buys you an hour a week where nobody is on a phone and neither of you is talking about school.

I teach you both the same material and then adjust it. A fifteen year old and a forty year old do not need identical answers, but the principle is the same either way: see it early, keep your distance, make noise, break the grip, stay on your feet, leave.

Set one rule between yourselves first. What happens in the session does not get carried into an argument later. It stops being training the moment it becomes a scoreboard.

This also works for a daughter who would never set foot in a group class. A quiet kid who freezes in a room of twenty is often a different person one on one in her own back yard with her mum right there. See training a shy kid.

Age is the other question, and it depends far more on attention span and temperament than on birthdays: whether your kid is old enough. If she has never trained at all, what happens in a first session gives her something concrete to picture instead of whatever she is imagining.

Tell me her age and whether she actually wants to be there. I will be straight with you if she does not. Message me and see what women-only sessions are.