Like a fine wine we as martial practitioners need to get better with age!  If you are a true martial practitioner meaning someone who is first and foremost practicing to protect themselves and their loved ones then you need to make improvements over time.  Why?  Well as you age your body goes through changes.  This affects your martial training because attributes that you once relied upon ie. speed, strength, stamina, etc. may fade and not be what they once were.  So as you get older as a martial practitioner you need to constantly work on refining your skill sets to make up for this decline in your attributes. (that and you need to get sneakier)  Now, I am not saying neglect maintaining and trying to improve your natural attributes.  We can through rigorous training, exercising and weightlifting keep them up to a degree and some times even surpass those twenty or more years younger than us.  Still, knowing that they may decline we can take advantage or our martial training and refine it as much as possible.  I am a huge proponent of taking a technique and working on the core principles and then playing with it to see what other avenues open up.  This will quite often lead to significant ways of refinement of your original movement!  Understand that by refining your training, technique you can eliminate unnecessary movement and there for actually age into your martial skill sets so that they continue to grow.  This is crucial for any true martial practitioner and why some older martial practitioners are simply so phenomenal!

So Age Like A Fine Wine!!!

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Brian R. VanCise

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