So, it would, methinks, be fair to say that I have had a mixed relationship with my hips. To be fair, up until the last four years, we have all got on very nicely. After all, we grew up together, enjoyed early sports, matured through school and the salad days of early life, went through university together, then started the road to work. To be honest, for decades, no problem at all; if anything, we both embraced the tough, flexible, bendy, demanding world of Shotokan Karate.