When I was 5 I got a daisy model 8 in .22lr. Little single shot, youth sized rifle. I still have it. Get him one of those.
Not till I think he can handle basic troop movement procedures through the woods. If I just hive him a gun, he will shoot at the neighbors, he lives in a ratty suburban area, think outskirts if Pittsburgh.
Why would you whack him in the head at the start?? Dude the boy is waiting. Just a guess but, from you describe it sounds like you need to break through a barrier that you both have. You as the adult need to begin. Give you and him time and start slow but, do it. It sounds like you both need each other. You two need family bonding. My stepmom took time with me, it was a rough road but, now we are truly family.
I would suggest anything that can hold his interest long enough to stimulate his mental processes, and anything that won’t be hazardous to him or anyone in the vicinity… no-one fancies the idea of losing an eye or being blinded by paintball paint… no-one!
I’ve tried to break through, he isn’t interested. Fine.
And taking a solid couple sacks to the head is essential to teaching good swordsmanship, I’m not teaching him to wack at the other sword, but people. When you see sword fights on TV, they do it wrong if they go back and forth for ten minutes- you seek the decisive blow from the start. He needs the pain association to grasp that everything in the universe is out to destroy him, that he either has to wack me first, or at least stop me from hitting him. Teaching him anything less is deceptive and shameful, and against ethics.
Just get him a rifle and go from there. Troop movements through the woods? Don’t try and fancify sneaking around in the woods. You military guys love to slap some jargon on some common sense shit and call it training. Give me a break.
No, it is also river crossings, ambushes, camouflage, using winter and summer gear, surrounding houses and selectively killing off people, setting up defensive and offensive positions, how to rest and sleep and build emergency shelters, it is a lot more than the basic battle drills. Child soldiers don’t really do very good till at least 6-7 years old. What good is a child in elementary school if he doesn’t know how to disembowel people? We need to keep pace with both the academics innchina and the child soldiers in Africa. I taught him last year how to do basic vedic arithmetic before he stopped talking, so he already has a head start. Just keep those two spheres balanced.
Four years old dressing up as a ninja with a katana? Sure, why not? 
Make sure you tell him not to poke his eye out or anybody else’s.
Turd please get rid of that pic of the african child. I live in america and I don’t want to know if there are children starving someplace in the world. Thanks.
That’s Alabama.
He may become Wapanese, as result, like these guys who like to dress up at conventions and pretend they are anime characters. I’m making an assumption that he is white, although that might not be so. I think what you would end up teaching him is that Japanese (foreign) culture is way cooler than (whatever his heritage is), and this is what he will remember in positive way and associate with (Japanese culture is cool/more desirable/superior). You really don’t know what impact this sword will have on him, but at a young age, it may be greater and more memorable than you think (or it may be just a phase he goes through). If you want a possibility that he might gravitate toward Japanese culture then go for it.
Hence why I’m first leaning towards the paraphernalia of the western martial arts first. Everyone should have a good balance of east and west, you can only grasp the one from the other, because we evolved out of the same roots, yet emphasize different aspects of the same things. Western martial arts evolved out of the technical guides surrounding gladiator fights, and Greek wrestling for a form of fighting based on measured thinking of combinatory methods within a larger situational synthesis. It wasn’t a codified art of sequences, but a corpus of options. Slower, very difficult to predict for fighters in individual melee. Inverse for china. For armies, different story altogether.
He will eventually get a copy of Kishido, but despite the name, it is the exact opposite of what you think it is. It teaches western classical philosophers paralleled to the ethics of Bushido.
Recommend it to everyone on the site. Catches you up on a lot of classical western authors.
Lets face the facts. White culture is mostly just a bunch of cuckery (half of modern whites sound like cucks) and the other half are bible thumping rednecks…If your argument is that White culture is superior, Far as Aryanism guidelines goes…Japanese are kind of more aryan than whites…
No it’s not.
It is, in Southeast Birmingham.
Like Norwood? Gate city? Maybe but I don’t think so. There wouldn’t be a white dude there for real.
He is always armed.
Is that a maadi? Why would you bother mounting a scope on that rattling piece of shit? Get a real gun man.
He only has what he can capture in battle, so unless they are assaulting orphanages with a dragunov, he has only what he takes off of the corpses of others.
His choice makes a lot of sense, gives him more accurate range while still being a assault rifle, he controls a fortified area he knows well. I’m not certain I personally would take a different weapon. I’m fairly certain I could kill a squad of you with just that. He isn’t exactly fighting Delta Force. These are poor, impoverished militias who think it is a swell idea to attack a orphanage for supplies, cash, and child soldier recruits. Bottom of the barrel shitheads, the kind of scumbags Nietzscheans worship, like the Vikings who used to attack defenseless monasteries. Doesn’t take much to kill such pussies, throw a couple of bullets their way and they shit themselves, loosing their formation and momentum.
Now, some of his other gun choices he is shown using with the local military in tow is quite questionable, but not this. Quality soldier matters more than quality weapon, but if you have choice, always choose what is best.
You should be able to use that weapon all the way to it’s effective range with just the iron sights. He needs some range time.