Hey cam - R U standing next to Dan Inosante in the last photo. Great to see when older people maintain the thirst to go on.

Like most older practitioners, the key should be to keep training with respect to the "DO" ie the way of Karate, & this is different for each individual. While many of us remember what we could do in our 20's, you must respect age & train to your current ability.Trying to replicate your 20's ability in older age, will definitely leave you with injuries you never had & take along time to recover from. Most older Karate practitioners have all done this & paid the price, including myself. I started karate by the way of filling in time at Nth Sydney TAFE college in between classes. Budokan karate was being taught there (1979). I was lucky I had natural flexibility, making improvement easy. Next year at TAFE there was no karate so I started Goshinryu karate in Manly, stayed with them for 5 years but also trained with Budokan in Sydney. I was told I had to pick which style I wanted to move forward with, so I continued on with Budokan untill 1994. Did train with many other style for short periods while on work extensions. Restarted training Goju with Sensi Sam at age 59 until present. I'm so glad I made the effort, as it's a pleasure to train with Sensi Sam in Yushukan. When we were young.

We should have taken photos of our forearms when we trained with these guys doing this - U have to do this all the time , not once in a while