Sounds like you were both having some fun. I envy you. No boys and my grils are both grown and away from home.

I am 58 and would love to have my "own light heavy".

And you guys can definitely do some LIGHT, shadow sparring where you just try to touch or come close without real (nor heavy) contact. Maybe a little more down to the body to keep each other honest.

I call them 'taps' when you hit just enough to know what is happening.

Then he can work on improving and trying new things without worrying about getting blasted for a mistake -- and the old man won't get blasted for, well, being old.