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I'm going to beat the dead horse I keep near my keyboard. I'm skeptical of any school that requires the student to perform any action that the student feels has the potential of being long term harmful. That's not a problem with the school/style, that's a problem with the teacher. As a counterexample, there are two of us who are currently preparing to ...

Sang Kim in Martial Arts After 40 gives some good advice, the most general point being the suggestion that older martial artists should consider switching from power styles to styles that emphasize precision. He specifically suggests considering weapons arts, to reduce wear and tear that gets harder to recover from as one gets older, as well as their ...

Icing reduces swelling. That is the only reason to ice as far as I know. Swelling can inhibit the motion of joints and make the injury more painful. It may also take a long time to reduce back to normal levels. Icing is effective up to about 48 hours after the injury occurred. Basically, if it keeps swelling, then icing it will continue to help stop that ...

I am myself in the Big Boy / Old Man category, so I feel your pain! Especially since you've been training in quite hard / high-impact styles. For the inflammation: ibuprofen (600mg, after training) ice packs or ice baths (lots of icing after training does wonders) frequent massage with arnica cream, dit da jow, or similar For your next training ...

A couple of options immediately spring to mind: Aikido the internal Chinese arts of Hsing - I and Ba Gua (Pa Kua) Aikido is reasonably well known and needs no introduction. The internal arts though are relatively unknown to a lot of people. They are separate arts and they are quite different to your tradition karate/TKD/jiu jutsu, they do have some ...

Filipino and Indonesian martial arts incorporate a lot of striking and grappling, are quite usable and versatile in the "real world", contain both empty-hand and weapon techniques (which are often the same), and in general, are kind to the joints. The exception being some of the silat groundwork where you're a pretzel, but any reasonable school will take ...

The things that help for me, or maybe I only thought they did, were: stretching and warming up thoroughly in the morning going for walks drinking plenty of water eating lots of quality food In other words, the things we should be doing normally.

Have you thought about tai chi chuan? I know that westerners tend to think about it more as yoga than martial art but that's a terminology mess to be blamed on popular culture. There are schools that are treating tai chi chuan as a martial art though you might put some effort in finding one. It is an internal art and it will give you freedom to go at your ...

Some interesting replies from people on here. Speaking as someone who works in the medical field and has studied martial arts most of my life I felt I had to add my part on this. If your knees cause you problems then doing a martial art that uses a lot of leg work will exascerbate any problems and could make them worse. It might only be gradual but could ...

Bujinkan Budotaijutsu (popular name in the west is Ninjutsu) lets you adapt the techniques to your own body, so everyone will find a way to execute the moves taught. No high kicks are taught. The only real acrobatics is break-falling, but once mastered, that will keep you from getting injuries. I think jujitsu will be a good suite also, as it shares allot ...

About your question i think the best is Wing Chun is a great art, develop by a women and does not uses force, the base is kung fu style of the crane. I train Jeet kune do and i am heavy. And Wing Chun is a great base in martial arts. Wing chun is a martial arts system based on realistic self defence. It is designed for combat and not a sport! Centreline ...

Jonathan's answer covers a lot of good forms already, and I second the suggestions of his that I'm familiar with. I'd like to add a couple of my own suggestions. Ninjutsu, Bunjinkan, Ninpo, and similar arts This family of arts has a number of names, but in my experience, they have a good blend of grappling, throwing, and striking, without all the ...

Stylistically, I would go with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, the emphasis on the ground does keep it safer. In fact American Folkstyle Wrestling has rules that encourage more matwork to reduce the risk of injuries during takedowns, which is where most wrestling injuries occur (I can dig up a source on that if you really want, but it'll take me a fair bit of time). ...