My teachers muay thai insturctor is 54! He looks 30 and is built like a tank! If you eat right, train regularly you could do hard external styles until you die!
As for starting age, I’ve heard that if you begin training at a prepubescent age you may be able to re-form the way the body is aranged. Which supposedly improves your ability. But what ever age you are is a good age to start. Better now than never.
Of course, if you start earlier you’ll have more time to train. But no use dwelling on the past and what you havent accomplished. The future is what matters right?
Any age is ok to start with (as long as you are old enough to walk ). Even starting at 70 i believe is ok to strengthen your body, and develop a sharp mind, i mean that’s why i study MA and i’m only 19.
However if you expect to become a world champion at 70 years of age, you got another thing commin
The object is not to hurt someone else, but to stop them from hurting you
I dont check this list often. But the art you chose has a lot to do with the long run development and maintenance of your abilities.If you do muy thai you will run into trouble by your late thirties for sure.In some arts the learning curve is long and continuous and your timing and knowldge improves so you dont always have to match muscle with muscle and you get more effective when it counts.Jet Li stuff wont help you. Good kung fu is not for the masses anyway.
Thus for mass drills- the Taiwanese army does TKD-
easier to do and learn and bad for you as you get
into your thirties.
kung lek’s designated troll.
In Morihei Ueshiba´s words:-
“Serious training should/could start around the years of 15/16…”
or something like that.
“It is never too late to start MA”
-Sammo Hung- lol.
Medically speaking,you´ll be “growing” in a way until you are 40,then it´s all downhill.
As a person ages, certain types of strengths appear.
Kam Yuen, in David Carradine’s book, talks of utilizing these abilities as “old man techniques”.
For example, one of my students in his mid fifties can lift a completely filled tool briefcase with his PINKY. The hand strength he has developed over the years is frightening, especially during combat.
I have a 50 year old female student that, without training, was able to leg press over 300 pounds. She’s 110.
In my opinion, there is no optimal age for kung fu.
). Even starting at 70 i believe is ok to strengthen your body, and develop a sharp mind, i mean that’s why i study MA and i’m only 19.