So I posed the question to a friend of mine “Does training in martial arts become harder with age, or easier with experience?”.
For me it’s both. Right now for the last year I have been dealing with a stupid hip injury that I could not figure out how to place back till the last couple of months. Those of you that don’t know I am pretty good at fine tuning bone placement. The injury pretty much made martial arts impossible for a while for me other than a few select moves. Every morning first thing I do when I get up is set my hip and lengthen my ankle to get my pelvis to sit right with gravity. Nothing has ever made me feel older. Despite this I train every day in some sort of physical conditioning.
So it stands that tomorrow I’m going to try a martial arts class. It’s been a while. We will see how I feel in a couple of days. Wish me luck.
I have had to come back from injury before, and it’s always hard. I have been hit by more cars than I can count. I have dislocated knees. I have thrown out my back a number of times. I have simply gotten lazy before as well. All this and, so far, I have always gotten around to training again in some fashion. Something in me just keeps chugging along. I wonder if it’s genetic. Dad’s still powering out marathons.
