Decker,

Your body is truely a temple and at 57 I have put my temple through hell and back. I'm still in one piece, a few "minor" problems going on. I still have a great deal of golf to play and discourage fights clubs such as boxing and martial arts. At you age I rode motorcross and did quite well keeping my body in tack. It was a short career however. Probably a good thing. The problem with the marshall arts or any sport where there is head contact is that each time you take a shot to the head, even by a soccer ball, it causes a bruise to the brain. Many of the better soccer playing by the time they graduate from "highschool" already have servere brain damage. The media does not show all us "athletes", all the guys that are battered and brain damaged from the sports we play. Be careful dude and pick your sports carefully!!! There is a reason golf and tennis stars make so much money and they don't have to take shots to the head.