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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5767421" data-attributes="member: 54707">I run a lot slower than when I was younger. On the other hand I fight a lot dirtier and more effectively as an old man. Because I know how to now. So I guess it all evens out.On a more serious note this kinda reminds me of  the old saw that if you don't make a great discovery in physics by the time  you're 25 (or something like that) you never will, but if you're a poet you  won't be any real good until you turn thirty or more. (And if you're a modern  poet you'll suck long after that too.)   But personally I think all of that kind of  speculation is mostly bullcrap.   To me it depends mostly upon the  individual.   I do think, being serious again, that practice and  experience generally tends to make you much, much better at whatever you're  doing. On the other hand practice without variation and training with criticism  can certainly limit your creativity and impulse to seek out new discoveries and  novel approaches to problem solving.   I don't reckon I can answer this other than to  say, it does and it doesn't.   Experience certainly makes you more experienced.  It doesn't necessarily make you wiser or more cunning. Then again real  experience and good training rarely hurts much either.I'd say the particular school and exactly what is being taught is probably more important than the old or new part.</blockquote>