Over 40 Karate beginner
I'm just turning 44 and just beginning Shotokan Karate. I used to train martial arts for nearly 10 years or so through my mid teens through my mid 20's, never traditional but mostly MMA/grappling/boxing. Haven't trained at all for a solid 15 years. I had been sitting watching my kids at their Karate class just to watch and enjoy them doing karate. After a couple of months I felt the itch to want to get on the mats and train, I thought I was going crazy lol thinking no way man, I'm too old to take up Karate now. That was a thing of my past, let it go and just enjoy the kids doing karate. Time goes by and the feeling to want to do it got stronger and finally I said heck with it. I want to do it and I'm not getting any younger lol. So jumped in last month and I'm so glad I did. It feels so good to do it just for the sake of learning and the tradition as opposed to back in the day when I was training for let's say competition or fighting. It's great and last night I just earned my Yellow belt which was surprisingly quite satisfying. Just wanted to share that and maybe say to a dad in his 40's like me that is feeling the same way I did and that I'm too old to start karate. Age is just a number, do it.