Remember, an old tiger is still a tiger.
GM Johnny Hunter
This great quote was sent to me by my friend, Grandmaster Johnny Hunter. I had asked GM Hunter about modifying my karate training and we were discussing how a couple of car wrecks and seven surgeries had brought me to the point of having to modify my training, as I was no longer able to do what I once could because of the injuries.
If you have trained for several decades, as both GM Hunter and I have, even if there are some kicks or techniques that you can no longer perform, because of age or injuries, it doesn’t negate your warrior training. As a tiger ages, it may lose some teeth or even a few claws, but it is still a tiger, and still very dangerous.
All martial artists reach a point during their life where they can no longer do as much as they once could; that is simply a part of growing old. But that doesn’t mean that their knowledge of the martial arts has disappeared. As aging martial artists, we have an abundance of weapons at our disposal. Losing a few of them doesn’t make any less knowledgeable or less able to defend ourselves.
As Han Fei Tzu wrote, “As circumstances change, the ways of dealing with them alter too.” As we age, we must modify our training and our self-defense techniques to meet our current abilities and needs. You must know your limits and your abilities, and adapt. Charles Spurgeon put it perfectly, “It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is a very dangerous, if not fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago.”
Master Funakoshi stated that the purpose of karate is the perfection of our character, and you are never too old or too injured to continue to improve your character. Keep striving to be the best that you can be, no matter how many obstacles you have to confront. And always remember, an old tiger is still a tiger!
Thank you, Kab!
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