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- From: rmr@acsu.buffalo.edu (Richard M. Romanowski)
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- Subject: Re: Badass Karate
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 23:02:12 GMT
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- richard@paragon.folly.welly.gen.nz (Richard Parry) writes:
-
- >But how many Mouy Thai artists have you seen fight who are over 30 years
- >old? I haven't seen ever 25, personally - their art simply wears them
- >out. So, for 5 or ten years, they are superior, then they lose it
- >(IMHO).
-
- >Then look at a hard karate style, or kung fu style. These guys train
- >hard too, but you still see them fighting tournament and actually being
- >able to move around in day to day life when their 40 or so. Hm. A case
- >in point, just to "parade" some people around: Mas Oyama, Kyokushin's
- >founder and leader, is an old dude of some 69 years or something. He
- >still breaks bricks, does kata, and can fight. He looks old, but not
- >_one_ of his students wants to take him on in a real fight. And he kept
- >fighting tourneys and killing bulls into his latter years...
-
- >He's worked hard, and he does a hard style. You tell me.
-
- >Cheers!
-
- I trained at Ishin-Ryu, VERYbriefly, before I decided yoga was
- more my style, and one of the senseis was tiny, wrinkled, probably eighty
- but at least sixty ... and he was like the Energizer bunny with a kendo
- stick instead of the drum sticks. :)
- And, IMHO, IshinRyu is a very stiff, hard art. Well, stiffer
- than yoga, at least. Not that I know a damn thing...
- Luck
- Rick
-