[vfulco2]

I respect this post immensely, I really do. I have studied various martial arts for a total of about 10 years (49 years old now, karate, Japanese sword-- kendo, iaido, even a few years of zen meditation which I see as the source of so much). Loved it while doing it. It strikes me one has to pick theirs very carefully. Everyone is different but my sister started studying Crav Maga in her early 30s for 2 years and now at 40 has chronic un-diagnosable pain problems which started only a few years after. She doesn't remember a single injury that "shifted" her health status but definitely something wrong occurred within the nervous or skeletal system and now she's a mess.