Are you too old, too injured, or too physically limited to continue training in Ninjutsu?
What if the real problem isn’t that you can no longer perform a technique—but that you’ve confused the technique with the capability it’s supposed to develop?
In this episode of KUDEN! Radio, Dai-Shihan Jeffrey M. Miller shares a lesson he first heard from Soke Masaaki Hatsumi decades ago: train according to the age and body you have today.
Through the experiences of two students – one adapting to a broken hand, and another whose lifetime of hard physical work eventually made familiar movements impossible—we explore how intelligent adaptations can preserve meaningful training and sometimes reveal unexpected improvements in taijutsu.
We’ll discuss:
- Why comparing yourself to your younger body can hold back your progress
- How physical limitations can reveal overlooked training opportunities
- Why the purpose of a technique matters more than reproducing its appearance
- How an experienced instructor approaches training challenges for older and injured students
- What it means to continue developing as a martial artist throughout your life
Your body changes. Your training must change with it.
KUDEN! Radio — After Class, Over Tea.