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Aging is a much easier pill to swallow for nerdy guys- you get smarter as you age, and dont get that much worse looking, at least for a while. For athletes, mod

• groby_b 15y ago
  As an athlete, you usually end up teaching younger athletes. (Well, at least most of the ones I know do). It is an interesting experience, since your view shifts. The most interesting part? As you're less and less invested in actually being brilliant in what you do, you gain a deeper understanding of the underlying principles. (I used to be a professional dancer. Many things that were hard to grok when I did them on a day-to-day basis are now entirely obvious. And I can easily demonstrate them, or spot the mistakes. I just can't do them hundreds of times, day-in, day-out :)
• jackpirate 15y ago
  Some sports you can actually still improve with age. For example with fencing, I've been whipped by more 90 year olds in wheel chairs than you would believe. They're past the age where they'll make the olympics, but they can still hope to best 95% of semi-competitive fencers. Of course, these tend to be the nerdy sports like fencing that involve a lot of mental coordination.