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M1:
No one can answer that for you, but you.
I would suggest asking some older people who have skills that you admire and who seem to be in good shape how they do it. It may be that they are lliving as compromised lifestyle and you are unaware of it.
All of the stuff I have broken over the years, whether for sport, work, or fun hurts now. I do not plan to add to the list any more than I have to. At the same time, I believe that I have sufficient skills to defend myself against most likely threats except old age.
How do you think you will be doing in the dojo at 70? 80? If you quit before that, how will you know when to quit?
In the immortal words of Toby Keith, "I ain't as young as I once was, but I'm as good once, as I ever was."
As we have told many people here, good SA and run-fu will get you out of most fights without having to be a participant in them. As you get older, you learn to avoid dnagerous situations. An old guy told my brother one time, "Son, you will never have to run from a fight if you start walking away soon enough."
True words.
Is hard training and combatives part of your preparation, or part of your lifestyle? If it is fun for you and is part of your conditioning program, you might want to start looking for alternatives that you enjoy. Tai Chi looks like good low-impact exercise.
Best of luck to you regardless. Once I hit 40, it started taking longer to prep and recover every year. Of course, I also know three guys in their mid-70s still working hard every day and jumping with students, so what do I know about aging?
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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