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- From: drury@helix.nih.gov (Richard Drury)
- Subject: Re: More fogey fighting
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.043307.2680@alw.nih.gov>
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- Organization: National Institutes of Health
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 04:33:07 GMT
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- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: More fogey fighting
-
- In article robinson@cogsci.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Robinson) writes:
-
- >Oh, I'm sorry. My apologies. You were indeed the person who
- >started the discussion. I was thinking of the other guy.
-
- I kinda suspected that, but thought I'd pull your chain a little
- anyway since you left it hanging out so far >;-)
-
- >Well, if it would make you happy, I could try to find some
- >75-year-old T'ai Chi teacher and have him bounce me off walls
-
- Yes, yes, and get somebody to videotape it! We an always run it
- in fast forward to make it look like real fighting >;-) >;-)
-
- >But seriously, I think it has more to do with the relative
- >availability of 75-year-old martial artists who are still
- >teaching the public. I just can't believe that people remain
- >formidable fighters into their sixties and then all of a sudden
- >go feeble in the span of a couple years. I think more likely
- >they just retire.
-
- Seriously, I don't know. You are certainly right that there are
- relatively few martial artists still teaching the public at this
- age. But I'm not sure why that should be so, if not that they
- are mostly over the hill by then. Oh well, I guess we'll all
- get to experience this at first hand sooner or later. Drop me a
- line in fourty years or so and let me know how you made out!
- --
- Richard A. Drury
- drury@helix.nih.gov
-