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Although I mentioned yesterday that it was very likely that I will completely retire from martial arts competition after a very long and fulfilling competitive career, I certainly won’t stop doing martial arts. For me, martial arts is for life, a ‘lifer’ as we could say.
I won’t be training at the same intense level as I would for competition and will do only the activities that I actually enjoy doing which incidentally will still be quite similar to what I’ve been doing all along during the last couple years of competition.
That is, I’ll still do both my bo staff and Chinese weapons forms. I may dabble with swords for interest as well. As for empty hand forms, I’ll probably just do my current open Chinese form and one or two traditional Japanese karate katas. These will be the only forms I do but having said that, I will probably add on a tai chi form as well.
I’ve done tai chi in the past but really haven’t stuck with it but now that I’m pretty well in competition retirement, I would like to do more tai chi especially for health purposes.
Of course, I believe that it’s important to review basic self defense techniques on a regular basis too. I would like to purchase one of those target dummies for this purpose.
So it is entirely possible to to keep on doing martial arts for life, maybe not at the same intensity and maybe some of the actual activities might be different but that’s okay. I’m doing what I enjoy and there are still so many benefits to martial arts.
I believe in this so much that I actually designed martial arts t-shirts called Martial Arts For Life. To see details and variations of this t-shirt, just click on the graphic below or the previous link.
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