Why? 2 questions

[fujicolt]

Wow - very honest and to support your point

i think i would add that All my training, all my research came to fruit when i had to step between my wonderful wife and an idiot whom was gonna hurt her. she was safe as a result - nuff said

You now use your arm cos of karate - i have a leg that went through the same - Haha! motorbikes eh?

[Paul Bedard]

Got back on the bike & had many a great year of riding since.. I wasn`t going to mention leg. I broke my right one badly in `92` X country skiing. I have had pleasure of having metal in my arm & my leg. In the arm for 1 year & the leg for 18 months. With the leg the physios new my background & let me have at it! Another win for karate My upper third fibula had broken & the lower third tibia, it was a spiral fracture with a large piece shaved off. My leg had stretched 4" & a reduction was required. The metal in my arm (7" c/w 6 screws), was relatively straight. The metal in my leg, was about 8", they had to put quite a twist in it to fit over the ankle & not one screw was the same length. In my arm about 1" of bone was pulverized & they graphed bone from my elbow. In my leg there was about a 4" piece of bone that broke off spirally, from the distal tibia. When they put the metal in 2 of the 9 screws went through the sound end of the tibia through the piece to the unsound end. ( proximal - distal) I broke my leg in feb & first tested for nidan in december, then again in march of 93, then finally successfully in july 93. I went to Cathy Clines camp both years in may, admittedly in the first year there were challenges, I couldn`t run, so I hopped & skipped. Other than being a bit tender right at the site of the spiral fracture my leg is fine. So in my mind, I owe a lot to karate. Now if it would fix my old arthritic knees
I might slow down at times, but I just can`t stop.
Paul B

[guyaku zuki]

1. MA was my first love (thanks to bruce lee).As a 5 y old I took up ju jitsu but my father kind of pushed me into playing football(which I enjoyed also to be honest).In my early twenties I started again with MA (Kempo and full contact karate)but had to do my military service.Trained a wee bit in muay thai during my time in the army with a lad who was a good MT fighter.After my military career the MA club I used to go to was shut down(it was a very small club)so I started running.After many years and after the birth of our son I decided to take up karate again.I really missed it ( I still have regrets I that I took up football,but as they say :you cannot turn back the clock).
2.I haven't been training that long like many of you but I enjoy the hard practice either in the dojo or at home(even when I feel as if my legs and knees hurt the next morning),meeting up with different people even from different countries ,and many more things really .....and I intend to enjoy it for the rest of my life.

oss!

[fujicolt]

1. MA was my first love (thanks to bruce lee).As a 5 y old I took up ju jitsu but my father kind of pushed me into playing football(which I enjoyed also to be honest).In my early twenties I started again with MA (Kempo and full contact karate)but had to do my military service.Trained a wee bit in muay thai during my time in the army with a lad who was a good MT fighter.After my military career the MA club I used to go to was shut down(it was a very small club)so I started running.After many years and after the birth of our son I decided to take up karate again.I really missed it ( I still have regrets I that I took up football,but as they say :you cannot turn back the clock).
2.I haven't been training that long like many of you but I enjoy the hard practice either in the dojo or at home(even when I feel as if my legs and knees hurt the next morning),meeting up with different people even from different countries ,and many more things really .....and I intend to enjoy it for the rest of my life.

oss!

Guy - try and view it as it wasn't the right time then and try and find out ways to help us 'Set in our ways' knackered old geezers to progress as you come to it as a fresh and open to modern approaches 'knackered older chap' HAHA!

[guyaku zuki]

Guy - try and view it as it wasn't the right time then and try and find out ways to help us 'Set in our ways' knackered old geezers to progress as you come to it as a fresh and open to modern approaches 'knackered older chap' HAHA!

well I hope I can still become as good as some of those knackered old geezers

[Bob Davis]

well I hope I can still become as good as some of those knackered old geezers

I'd settle for half as good I was partnering an "old geezer" earlier this year, he was in his 60's, just getting over major bypass surgery, was on blood thinners and "wasn't really supposed to be training at all at the moment". I may as well have just been a practice dummy, (I guess in reality I was ) for all the difference anything I could do made.

[kensei]

Bob,
I hear ya! My instructor had a heart attack at 50 some odd years old, was training two months after and beat the living tar out of me because he was not allowed to train for two months by his wife...she made him sit around and I paid for it!

Some of the old timers are very dangerous people!

[fujicolt]

Bob,
I hear ya! My instructor had a heart attack at 50 some odd years old, was training two months after and beat the living tar out of me because he was not allowed to train for two months by his wife...she made him sit around and I paid for it!

Some of the old timers are very dangerous people!

I am gonna tell you James how dangerous us 'old timers' whom have suffered Heart Attacks and Strokes can be - you may just be the one sparring with us when we drop dead and our insurance companies will hound you forever

[fujicolt]

Oh and that was a joke - we can't get insurance so knackered

[fujicolt]

may i politely ask we go back to the thread please = 2 questions?

thanks