{"id":12862,"date":"2025-10-20T10:12:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T10:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/10\/20\/promoting-national-kickboxing-youth-fitness\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T10:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T10:12:10","slug":"promoting-national-kickboxing-youth-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/2025\/10\/20\/promoting-national-kickboxing-youth-fitness\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting National Kickboxing for Youth Fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first successful National Kickboxing championship brought together young athletes from Karachi to Khyber and from Azad Kashmir to Balochistan, with teams and officials attending to showcase talent and promote positive activities to reduce <em>screen time<\/em> among children. Boys and girls competed across weight categories, demonstrating that the sport can engage youth nationwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Muhammad Afzal Babar<\/strong>, founder and central president of the Private Schools Network and vice chairman of the Islamabad Bando Association, praised the organisers for staging the event and stressed the need to promote positive activities that divert children from excessive digital use. He highlighted that the National Kickboxing platform helps build discipline, confidence and healthy habits.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Babar singled out athletes such as <strong>Ali Imran Rajput<\/strong> and <strong>Nadeem Janjua<\/strong> as role models who can teach the next generation essential self-defense and physical fitness skills. Their performances at the National Kickboxing championship provided visible examples of how martial arts training supports both personal safety and overall well-being.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman <strong>Chaudhry Afzal Hussain<\/strong> and vice chairman <strong>Dr. Muhammad Afzal Babar<\/strong> presented medals, certificates and trophies to position holders, players and officials, recognising achievements and the collaborative spirit displayed across provinces. Organisers hope this successful event will encourage more regional competitions to keep youth active and invested in constructive, real-world activities rather than prolonged screen use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Kickboxing champions promote fitness and cut children&#8217;s screen time as young athletes from Karachi to Khyber compete and win honors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12861,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peakpoint.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}