I'm in my sixties. Can I still learn this?

Yes. One of the most common questions I get and one of the easiest to answer.

I turned pro in MMA at 42, which is old enough to know what a used body feels like. I am not going to look at sixty and see a problem.

What changes is the plan, not the goal. Older students spend more time on what actually matters and less on what is mostly for young athletes. Balance and staying on your feet. Distance and awareness. Grip breaks and getting your hands free. Getting up off the floor, which turns out to be useful about twice a year whether or not anybody ever attacks you. Falling without hurting yourself, taught slowly and low.

What you will not be doing is a twenty-year-old’s warm-up, and nobody is going to spar you.

Private coaching suits this better than a class, because there is no room full of people setting the pace and no sitting out waiting your turn on a bad knee day. Every session starts where you are that day.

Old injuries matter more than age does. A replaced hip, a fused wrist, a shoulder that has not been right since the eighties. None of it rules you out, it shapes what you drill. See training with an old injury.

Two honest notes. Talk to your doctor before you start, especially with a heart condition, blood pressure, joint replacements or anything on a prescription. Then tell me all of it when you message me, so I build around it instead of finding out in week three. See do I need to be fit and you are not too old to start.