Isn training in martial arts only for young, strong, aggressive people?
Some schools portray studying Budo (the way or path of the warrior) as being the purview of boys who like to fight. This is usually not the case for traditional arts though. People with aggressive tendencies often either quit training altogether, or begin to rethink the need for forcefulness. As for the age issue, the founder of Aikido (Morihei Ueshiba, sensei) trained daily until his death at 86. As the body ages it loses flexibility and strength, yet because of years of diligent training, he was able to perform impressive feats, and utterly dominate practitioners, many of whom were a quarter his age.
