Learning Martial arts - Is age a constraint?

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I think that as with many physical activities, building yourself up is key. I started seeing a phyisio a year ago after long term problems and a personal trainer late last year and am doing well on my own now.

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Amar Chaudhary

I don't feel age is an issue, but you should take care about how your daughter take it - if she is happy, go ahead you will enjoy the company of each other, if this makes her feel embarrassed, you should give it a second thought.

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R Giskard Reventlov

A friend of mine just got his black belt... at 55. He started a few years back and he tell sme that there are people older than him at his club: I doubt that physical age is a barrier.

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Roger Wright

Age is no barrier at all! I started taekwondo and hapkido at 46, and managed to earn a 2nd degree belt in each after 7 years of hard work and great fun. Rather than causing me problems, it cured a few. For one, when I started I'd been experiencing knee pain a weak spells in my legs. After 6 months, my legs were much stronger, and after a year I no longer felt any pain in the knees. Another curious one, which I credit to martial arts, is that a year before starting training, my doctor detected a problem in the left side of my heart. After two years of classes, the problem was no longer detectable. I can't be sure that taekwondo did that, but it's the only change I made in my life during that period, and I don't believe in coincidences. Go for it! :-D

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Johnny J

So now you can slay trolls again? ;P

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Johnny J

Roger Wright wrote:

Rather than causing me problems, it cured a few.

Exactly. I've had two heart surgeries in the last 3 years (remember at age 44 only) - mainly due to my way too long period of inactivity and the accompanying overweight. Now that I've started karate again, I feel so much better - almost like a new person, and my heart is giving me much less problems. That's true - you do martial arts too - not only Roger Allen. I knew I had forgotten a Roger. Seems like there's a lot of Rogering going on in martial arts circles nowaday... :laugh:

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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932

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Got to catch them first!

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Johnny J

You can ask DD if he needs help - seems like he's been out on a trollhunt the last month or so... ;)

Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932

Roger Wright

Johnny J. wrote:

there's a lot of Rogering going on

Roger, that! :-D

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Roger Allen

Thanks, it was a good day. Still recovering from the injuries I suffered (which I did not notice on the day). I started when I was 36 at this club and it took me just over 6 years at 3-5 sessions a week to get to 1st Dan. Although I have always been into fitness training and martial arts (various clubs through the years on and off). But this club has a philosophy which really clicks with me. It a non-profit club, all the instructors are unpaid and do it for the love of the style/club. At our club with have poeple who started late in life, several who were 50+. They all do well. I would say go for it, but find a club thats not demanding financially.

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