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Old 12-29-2016, 01:13 PM   #25
fatebass21
 
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Re: Starting Training at 45

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Ed Shockley wrote: View Post
My kid started when he was 12 so I sent with him. (I was 42) I continued 13 years then I had a major stroke. My Shihan (Henry Smith) can twice to my hospital to learn how I was. (I had aphasia and could not speak letters.) He gave me some exercises I could do in my bed and as soon as I could leave the hospital (one month later) I could walk enough to get up to the second floor (and clean myself!!!) It is four years now and I do complete aikido/jo/bokken/iaido once more. I do not try to pretend I am what I was and several aikido friends ask me if I seem to be going too much. Qi Gong always is what I liked back in Columbia College and it still is the best exercises for me. "Make yourself new!"
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