A Martial Art Can Be Your Fountain Of Youth!
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When my Dad used to say, wistfully, “Youth is wasted on the young,” I thought it was so much doubletalk.
The adage presupposes that youth only comes along once in a lifetime, and while this is the widespread perception, it’s wrong.
You can be, and I daresay you should be young at every age, and it’s possible if you train diligently in the martial arts.
When my Dad used to say, wistfully, “Youth is wasted on the young,” I thought it was so much doubletalk.
The adage presupposes that youth only comes along once in a lifetime, and while this is the widespread perception, it’s wrong.
You can be, and I daresay you should be young at every age, and it’s possible if you train diligently in the martial arts.
If you need any proof of this proposition just take a look at oldsters in the People’s Republic of China, the millions who do Tai Chi every morning in parks and public spaces.
They’re agile, flexible, and graceful, and a typical 80 year-old practitioner there has more vitality and than the average, 35 year-old American office rat.
But most important, these people believe that they’re in charge of their bodies, they take responsibility for them, and they don’t yield to silly ideas that say we should naturally lose our physical capabilities as time marches on.
If, at an advanced age, you study combative forms such as karate, and you spar with opponents of various ages, you’d be amazed at how well you’ll do, providing you’ve paid the price to condition your mind and body.
Your body doesn’t know how old it is.
If, as a 45 year-old, you tell it to perform as if it were 18, it will do it, providing you have prepared it properly.
More than toughness, self-confidence, or fighting skill, the true gift of intensive, ongoing martial arts training is YOUTH.
In this sense, Dad may have been more correct to say martial arts training is wasted on the young!
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