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Marco Cariglia
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Hi everyone, my name’s Marco. I have an earlier experience with martial arts, about 8 years of light contact/kick boxing and a related first degree black belt, when I was in my twenties. I then stopped practicing long term for a number of reasons, only to wake up in my forties with a number of health issues. To address these I started working on foundational skills in a systematic way, leveraging my interest in Chinese martial arts. I’m now 48 and for 3 years I’ve been working daily on: lots of standing postures for fascia building and activation, body hardening, hands and forearms conditioning, hard qigong for energy circulation and general strengthening, some kung fu applications. By now my health andphysical condition have definitely improved. While so far I’ve been lucky enough/privileged enough to experience a very limited amount of real violence in my life, I’ve been drawn to this program because of: 1) the direct and no-nonsense approach, which I think complements well the traditional martial arts one, 2) my own very limited experience of needing self defence so far. Great being here and very nice meeting you all. Wish all the best to each of you in your training