Here is a CLF spar form from Guangzhou..two old guys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZESF2bY9CKs
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Here is a CLF spar form from Guangzhou..two old guys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZESF2bY9CKs
Awesome! I love seeing stuff like this and videos of my Si Tai Gung Poon Seng at 86 rockin some CLF.
These guys have no quit in them.
Thank you,
for putting this on the forum , these sifu's are enjoying themselves, pleasure to see this. Be nice to see more video of the older m/a folks and to have them talk on the forum.
My best to u
ron
nice to see vitality in older people.
It keeps us mindful of teh value of continued practice. :)
well I hope that I get to that age and retain that degree of energy, tell me, as someone who has no knowledge of that system is the main aim to attack each others fists
Greetings,
I like, very much.
mickey
Still busting tornado kicks in their 80's. AWESOME!
Gotta love this kind of stuff, he could whip my Dad's ass...
This is a harsh story, but you got to give it up for kungfu grannies living in hell.
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Kenya's kungfu grannies combat attacks with fists
By TOM ODULA
The Associated Press
Wednesday, May 12, 2010; 11:53 AM
NAIROBI, Kenya -- A two-finger poke to the eyes, a punch to the solar plexus, a kick to the groin, then turn and run, the instructor barks.
But this is not your typical self-defense class. The trainer is an elderly Kenyan woman who is teaching her peers how to combat a spate of rape attacks targeting elderly women in the slums. One Nairobi hospital treated 437 rape victims older than 60 last year.
In the sludge-covered alleyways of the Korogocho slum, 50 women, many of them grandmothers, have enrolled in twice-a-week self-defense classes at a run-down community center. The women say they must rely on themselves because the police rarely patrol the dark paths that wind through the maze of iron-roofed shanties. When suspected rapists are reported to the police, they often bribe their way to freedom, the women say.
At the Korogocho community hall, elderly women clad in headscarves, long skirts and petticoats pound punching bags with the heels of their bare feet.
"No, no, no!" screams 70-year-old Mary Wangui as she pounds the heavy hitting pad. Her open-palm blows force a 20-something instructor, Sheila Kariuki, to fall backward. A group of around 30 women between the ages of 50 and 80 cheer on Wangui as they wait their turn.
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"When we hit the pad with an open palm we are training to target the nose, the solar plexus or the groin to hurt an attacker so that it can give you a chance to escape. Shouting 'no' repetitively is meant to draw the attention of people so that they can assist you," said Wangui, who has been training for almost two years.
"Don't feel any mercy. Was he coming to read the Bible with you?" Kariuki asks the women.
One of the causes of elderly rape is a belief by criminals that intercourse with an elderly women can cure them of AIDS. Others think that raping an elderly woman will cleanse their sins after committing crimes, Kariuki said.
Ten elderly women have been raped and killed the last two years in Korogocho, but no suspects have been arrested, Kariuki said. Many other rapes are believed to have taken place but not reported.
Elizabeth Olwenya is a grandmother to four children under the age of 5 who were orphaned after two of Olwenya's daughters died of AIDS. The 55-year-old Olwenya was one of the first to take the self-defense classes three years ago, and said the skills she learned help protect her grandchildren.
"The life here is not good. People here can rape you and even your child," said Olwenya, a widow.
Dr. Jake Sinclair, a founding member of Ujamaa, a non-governmental organization that helps rape victims and holds the self-defense classes, said many class members are grandmothers motivated by the fact that they are raising their children's children. The classes can provide protection for both generations, he said.
For the orphans to have a chance of success in life, the grandmothers must be given skills and capital to start small businesses, Sinclair said. High crime rates threaten income-generating activities.
"If they lose that they have nothing," he said. "In most cases the mothers and the fathers have died of HIV and if the grandmother cannot support them or protect them the kids will end up on the streets or the Kenya youth authority, which is like prison. If they end up on the streets it is prostitution or thuggery."
Through a grandmother's care, the children have a chance to finish their education and break past the barrier of poverty, he said.
The Gender Recovery Center at the Nairobi Women's Hospital treated 2,357 victims of rape last year. Of the 1,118 adults who were victims of the crime, 223 women over the age of 60 - almost 20 percent of the victims, said the center's monitoring and evaluation officer, Lillian Kasina. National crime statistics are lower than the hospital's numbers, because of the stigma of reporting rape.
"Many of the reporting desks at police stations are manned by men who see rape as a crime of pleasure rather than seeing it as a crime that violates women's dignity," said Harun Ndubi, a human rights official with the group Haki Focus.
A national police spokesman, Charles Owino, said that reports of rape in general rose in 2008 and 2009, although he would not release statistics. He said the increase is because of more awareness of the crime and the introduction of stronger laws against sexual offenders.
Owino said the allegation that police do not act on reported cases could be true, and that if a police officer ignores a complaint, the victim or her family should talk to someone higher up the chain of command. "You can go all the way up and talk to the police commissioner," Owino said.
Julia Karinge, who is in her 80s and gets assistance from Ujamaa, said she has been raped twice.
"I did not resist either time because I did not want to die. They killed a friend of mine and dumped her body outside my house," said Karinge, who is not taking the defense classes.
No arrests were made, though she reported the crime to police and could identify her attacker.
"You need to pay them to get them to do anything," she said.
:mad: Really sad to read this Gene, God bless them.
Lollipop lady. What a quaint term.Quote:
Stop, or face the chop: The karate expert lollipop lady grandmother who is ready to mete out tough justice
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 9:47 AM on 5th July 2010
Motorists beware! A karate expert lollipop lady is ready to deal with inconsiderate drivers after getting an historic martial arts award at the age of 77.
Grandmother Ena Mallett is the first woman ever to get a 7th dan black belt in Spirit Combat International ju-jitsu.
The widowed mother-of-two teaches weekly classes in the sport for children and adults at the village hall near her home in South Walsham, Norfolk.
Historic honour: 77-year-old lollipop lady Ena Mallett has become the first woman to earn a 7th dan black belt in Spirit Combat karate
She also helps out out twice a day as a lollipop lady helping children cross outside the village school.
Mrs Mallett started learning karate to keep fit in 1979 and became a Spirit Combat International instructor in 1987.
Karate expert: Mrs Mallett started learning karate in 1979 and has been an instructor since 1987
Despite being only 5 ft 4 ins tall, she can throw around much larger opponents using self-defence techniques.
She said: 'I might be getting on a bit - but I still get stuck in myself during lessons. I don't just teach from the sidelines.
'I can still deal with any big bloke who comes along. I am not treated any different to anyone else.
'The children at the school all know about my ju-jitsu skills and they think it is brilliant. A lot of them come to my classes.'
Mrs Mallett has only used her martial arts skills once in a real-life situation, when she out a 14-year-old boy in a wrist lock around seven-years-ago. She grabbed hold of the teenager to stop him stealing a packet of Polo mints while she was working part-time in a local shop.
She said: 'It gave him the shock of his life and he quickly dropped the mints. I let him go and he ran away.
'Spirit combat is all about using self control - but you have to be prepared for violence to defend yourself. I love teaching it and I certainly have no plans to give it up. I don't see why I should put my feet up.'
She also teaches more sedate ladies' keep fit classes and relaxes by dog walking and gardening.
hahahah very cool gene
Awesome ;)
better eat your peas or grandma will chicken wing you and make you eat em!!!
Hey, I got a great way you can get your school in the local papers. Give your eldest student her black belt. ;)
Seriously, congrats to Dingle. That's just plain awesome.
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Great-grandmother no pushover at Tampa martial arts school
by GEORGE WILKENS | The Tampa Tribune
Published: July 12, 2010
SOUTH TAMPA - At Martial Arts Advantage, where students as young as 3 years old learn tae kwon do, Alice Dingle is a standout in more ways than one. The South Tampa resident who last week earned a black belt is a 72-year-old great-grandmother.
Long devoted to physical exercise, from aerobics and Pilates to free weights and golf, she was introduced to tae kwon do two years ago by one of her four sons.
"I did not know what it was all about, I did not have clue," she said of the Korean martial art similar to karate, but also employing a wide range of kicking moves.
Mark Dingle, 47, a tae kwon do black belt student at South Tampa's Martial Arts Advantage, knew it well. And he knew the workout was well suited for his active mother.
"Mom has more energy than all of us combined," Mark Dingle said recently after a tae kwon do class that included his three children, younger brother, Jimmy, and, of course, his mother.
Owner-instructor Anthony Kuntz, a sixth-degree black belt, said the martial arts school provides a family-based program. "It's more than self defense and fitness training; it's about family bonding," he said before leading the 45-minute workout for three generations of the Dingle family, and two dozen other students.
"Alice is 72 year young, our oldest student right now," Kuntz said. "She took our complimentary self-defense class and found she loved it," subsequently enrolling in women's cardio kickboxing and other classes focusing on calisthenics and improving strength and reflexes, said Kuntz, a Carrollwood resident.
"Receiving her black belt is a big deal. Receiving her black belt at age 72 is extraordinary," said Kuntz, who opened Martial Arts Advantage in 1998 at 234 E. Bearss Ave., and three years ago added the South Tampa location, 3801 S. Manhattan Ave.
Jimmy Dingle, the latest family member to get on board with tae kwon do, is on target to earn his black belt in four more months. "They talked me into it," the 38-year-old said of his mother, older brother and three nieces and nephews, Hannah, 13, Nik, 9, and Abby 7, all of whom earned black belts at the school.
"We have a really good time here," Alice Dingle said. "It's a great experience. To be with family, I think that's the key. And it's good exercise."
She is at Martial Arts Advantage five days a week. "Now this is my workout all the time," she said, though she occasionally steals time for Pilates or playing golf at the Palma Ceia Country Club, behind the home she shares with her husband, Jerry.
"None of that could compare with this," she said of martial arts. "I haven't gotten tired of it yet. "As long as I have good health I plan to stay here."
Gene, give it up, you just posted that story just so you can type 'Dingle'.......
150 tai chi postures? :confused: Well, we won't dwell on that. Happy 100th Mr. Fisher!
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Local man celebrates 100 years with 100 tai chi postures
Nathan Fisher, a resident of Dover, turned 100 on Tuesday and to celebrate he attended his weekly tae chi class at Rigby's Karate in Dover, where he and the other members of the class did 100 of 150 tai chi postures, in honor of Fisher's centennial.
By Sarah Barban
sarah.barban@doverpost.com
Twitter: @SarahDoverPost
Mar. 28, 2013 3:13 pm
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Nathan Fisher smiles as Reese Rigby of Rigby's Karate reads a letter congratulating Fisher on this 100th birthday. Fisher celebrated his birthday by performing 100 tai chi postures in his weekly tai chi class on Tuesday.
Dover, Del. --
When Nathan Fisher was born, Woodrow Wilson was president, women could not vote and for the first time, prizes were being put in Cracker Jack boxes.
In 100 years, Fisher has lived to see a lot, but you would never know it.
"There are changes constantly, small changes," he said.
Fisher turned 100 on Tuesday and to celebrate he attended his weekly tae chi class at Rigby's Karate in Dover, where he and the other members of the class did 100 of 150 tai chi postures, in honor of Fisher's centennial.
Fisher has been doing tai chi for the past 20 years. He picked it up when he was out in Berkley, Calif. staying with his daughter. He practiced short-form tai chi, which is only 37 poses, on and off for months.
In 2000 Fisher, who is originally from Baltimore, moved to Smyrna with his wife, who he was married to for almost 60 years prior to her death in 2002, and his grandson. Several years after the move he enrolled in tai chi classes at Rigby's, where he learned long form tai chi, which is 150 postures, all of which are memorized.
According to Rigby's Karate owners Reese and Judy Rigby, Fisher is an inspiration to others in the class.
"I think he's made us think that getting to that age won't be so bad," said Reese.
"He teaches everyone to keep going, to keep active," added Judy.
According to the Rigbys, Fisher does things that would be impressive for a man 20 years his junior, everything from kicks to standing on one leg. Fisher said one of the reasons that he enjoys tai chi is because it helps with his arthritis.
"It just feels so good when you do it," Fisher said.
Fisher said that tai chi has also helped his mind, and the Rigbys chalk that up to the focus that is required to do tae chi.
Fisher spent his career as a civil engineer and, but despite the discipline required to practice tai chi, he makes no bones about enjoying his retirement.
"I guess it's all leisure now," he said with a smile "I do a lot of reading."
But the Reese said Fisher still does his share of hard work. He told a story about how, at 94, Fisher came into class late and apologized for his tardiness by explaining that he had to shovel the snow from his driveway in order to make it to class.
Fisher has a very down-to-earth attitude when it comes to celebrating the century mark.
"I don't think about it too much," he said. "It's just another day."
But that humbleness didn't stop Fisher from celebrating in style, arriving at Tuesday's class in a limo. Inside, he was presented with a shirt that said "I'm 100, see what tai chi can do." After they performed their 100 postures, Reese presented Fisher with letters of congratulations from Sen. Tom Carper, Gov. Jack Markell and from the karate studio itself. Dover City Councilman James Hutchison was on hand to wish Fisher a happy birthday.
After all the presentations Fisher blew out the candles on a birthday cake that read "1913: A very good year."
Fisher then planned to travel to his native Baltimore to celebrate the milestone with his family, some of whom are coming from as far away as Arizona.
"Give it up for the elderly"??
Is that Gene's new pick up line?? :eek:
You've taken way too many blows to the noggin, lkfmdc, for your mind to go that direction with this. :rolleyes:
Not bad.
But I still think you've had too many blows to the noggin.
I categorize martial artists into two groups: Too many blows to the noggin & not enough blows to the noggin.
I've got 138 postures for sale!
the other dozen come free!
37 postures of Tai chi
that is about right.
the rest are repeats.
we may also include more kicks.
lots of stamping feet and kicks were dropped by Yang lu chan in late 1920s.
if you learn from chen old frames, and yes there are many and many long forms
if you place 2 forms together, then easily more than 100 or 150 postures.
Wondering what karate dojo teaching ?
:confused:
come to think of it
both tkd and kara te have tai chi forms
but they are different from chen village
just have the same name
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I really enjoy reading on this froum. It's a riot ( funny ) at times and serious at other times . Old folks don't post much on here and that is sad.
Regarding old folks and Martail Arts, older folks enjoy doing what they can do to improve their health , it and makes em feel good, it also makes em feel younger and healthier.
Times are changing too , the old tradional Tai Chi forms are still around as are newer versions of Kung Fu for heath . As we age we can't do the kicks, jumps, scoops, body drops etc. but we can still perform Kung Fu froms with some modification and it feels good.
And some of don't need Viagara :eek:
Not Dead, asleep at the wheel maybe, this should bring some wake up for the Holidays! :D:):D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9q9ZPT3psEA
Kung Fu Grandpa in the Food Lion parking lot!
Over 5 million hits in 2 days.
Sounds like quite a character.Quote:
Black Country wrestler Saleh Ghaleb still fighting fit at 83 years old
21 Mar 2013 09:47
West Bromwich pensioner, known as The Amazing Kung Fu, is Britain's oldest martial arts fighter
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King Fu pensioner Saleh Ghaleb, from West Bromwich
Grappling grandad Saleh Ghaleb is known as the ‘Amazing Kung Fu’ for a reason.
At 83, the wrinkly wrestler is the ring’s oldest pro.
The pensioner, who made his debut in 1970, is still prowling the mat at an age when most settle for a gentle tai chi session to stay in shape.
And next Friday the silver body slammer once again dons his famed kung fu mask for a show at Kings Norton Ex-Services Club in Cotteridge.
Saleh, Yemen-born, but a West Midlands resident since 1955, promises an awesome display of OAP power.
He may be only eight stone, but push in front of the judo black belt at the post office queue and you’re asking for trouble.
He’s also a kung fu, karate and jiu jitsu expert.
“If the young wrestlers get nasty, I kick their ass,” growled Saleh, who runs three times a week and works out in the gym.
“I’m very fit – I wouldn’t step into the ring if I wasn’t. Be fit and you live longer.”
The former foundry worker, now living in West Bromwich, made his wrestling bow when the sport enjoyed heavy TV coverage, though none of his contests, which run into thousands, have been screened.
He made his debut under the guise of the Bengal Tiger, then changed his name to the Arabian Gentleman.
His career stalled for three years in 1984 when he returned to the Yemen to train the national Olympic judo team. Since returning to the ring two years ago, divorced Saleh claims to have lost only one bout.
Paul Jenks, promoter of the Cotteridge bill, said: “You have to see him to believe it. He is truly amazing.
"When Saleh first walked into the gym and said he wanted to make a comeback we laughed. Then we saw him working out, doing backdrops...
“He says he wants to continue until he’s 101. I wouldn’t put it past him.”
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Saleh Ghaleb, aka The Amazing Kung Fu, from West Bromwich Saleh Ghaleb is still getting his kicks from kung fu
They may have to use a chairlift to get him over the ropes or even splash out on the world’s first walk-in ring.
An opponent for this month’s bout has yet to be found, but that doesn’t bother Saleh.
“He’ll probably be younger,” said the grandfather, still breathless after completing his road work around Sandwell Valley Park.
“My children support me. They’ve told me to just carry on.”
“I’ve got all my own teeth,” he boasted. “I haven’t lost one.”
That’s vitally important. When not wrestling, Saleh raises cash by using them ... to lift children off the ground.
See the post two posts up. There's a vid if you follow the link below. Bell has the right attitude. I'd rock one of those shirts. Get your nunchucks here. :cool:
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HOLMBERG: ‘Kung Fu Grandpa’ message packs more than a punch
Posted on: 12:39 am, April 3, 2013, by Mark Holmberg, updated on: 12:48am, April 3, 2013
RICHMOND, Va. (WTVR)–Tom Bell of Richmond has only been the “Kung Fu Grandpa” for a few days, but he’s already known by that nickname by well over 7 million people around the world, and counting.
And yes, the 52-year-old salesman took some karate classes as a youngster, but he’s only been swinging his now-famous nunchucks for a little more than a year.
“My mom passed away and we were going through some of the stuff and I found an old wooden pair (of nunchucks),” Bell recalled. “I started playing with them. First thing you know, I had knots all over me. So my fiancée bought me foam ones.”
He’s the star of the viral Youtube video titled “Kung FU Grandpa in the Food Lion parking lot!” that showcases one of his high-flying workouts, filmed by a local pastor who provided humorous and spontaneous commentary that has helped the video soar through cyber space.
The pastor, Rev. Aamon Miller of Swansboro Baptist Church, formally met the man he dubbed “Kung Fu Grandpa” Tuesday afternoon in the Food Lion parking lot.
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And he brought a T-shirt he has made in honor of the message he sees in the runaway clip, which has been also been made into a music video.
“If you drop one chuck, pick it back up, and keep chuckin –Kung Fu Grandpa,” the shirt reads. Rev. Miller said the shirts will soon be available online.
“That’s what I do a lot,” Bell said of dropping his chucks.
He can be seen chucking in parks and parking lots all around town. It keeps him in great shape. Local filmmaker Lucas Krost recently made a polished video starring Bell – shot in Richmond – for a Super Bowl commercial contest by Doritos. It didn’t win, but many believe it’s worthy of airing.
But late last week, it was the Rev. Miller’s first look at the silver-haired martial artist.
“When I came out of the store, he’s chucking by my car,” Miller recalled, laughing. “And I’m nervous. I’m like, ‘Oh, man, is this the repo man? Do I owe him money? What’s going on?’”
He said he got in his car, moved it around so he could get some over-the-dash-video with his cell phone, kind of ducking down in case the man with the nunchucks didn’t like being filmed.
But as he watched, he felt there was more to the story.
And like any good preacher, he found a mighty message in the unusual and funny video he shot.
“His mom passed away,” he said, watching the Kung Fu Grandpa have another workout on the Food Lion parking lot. “He was down. So he needed something to pick himself up. And he found it in this activity. And the whole thing of dropping the chuck . . . In life, we’re going to drop all kinds of things. But the key is not to stay down with the thing that you dropped. Pick it up and get back to what you are doing.”
The Kung Fu Grandpa approved of that message, happily accepting the T-shirt, his new name and fame and the idea that his healthful pastime has given so many so much pleasure.
Sheer awesomeness. And I love those axes.
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Ninety-year-old wins martial arts championship
UPHOLDING TRADITION:The retired physician said he has practiced martial arts for more than 70 years after his father advised him to learn the traditional Chinese sport
By Hsieh Wen-hua and Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter, with staff writer
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Ninety-year-old Ho Kuo-chao displays his martial arts skills in Taipei at a competition on Sunday organized by Ministry of Health and Welfare.
Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei Times
Ninety-year-old Ho Kuo-chao (何國昭) has proved that being old does not always mean acting old by wowing a panel of judges at a talent competition on Sunday with his sophisticated martial art skills, bagging the championship.
Leading a group of younger martial artists, Ho confidently brandished traditional weapons while doing five consecutive splits before performing drunken boxing. His performance also included several forward rolls and an ending pose of a left split, drawing a round of applause from audiences and judges and outperforming 11 other groups of elderly finalists.
The contest was organized by the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Taiwan Catholic Foundation of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia.
Veteran actor Chin Shih-chieh (金士傑), who served as a judge for the competition, said jokingly that watching someone as old as Ho doing consecutive splits was a “horrifying” experience.
The skills staged by the younger performers also captured the essence of classic martial art movements and were equally fascinating, Chin said.
Taipei Jen-Chi Relief Institution director Tai Tung-yuan (戴東原), who joined the competition as a guest, said for a 74-year-old man who even had difficulty standing up from a tatami mat when visiting Japan, Ho’s flexibility was rather impressive.
As the founder of Chien Hsing Martial Club in Greater Tainan, Ho said he has practiced martial arts for more than 70 years after his father advised him to learn the traditional Chinese sport to help boost his immune system.
After retiring as a physician several years ago, Ho followed in the footsteps of his father and grandfather, both of whom were doctors, and started teaching martial arts and Song-Jiang Jhen Battle Array (宋江陣) — a form of performing arts that combines elements of kung fu, dance and drumming — at local schools and temples.
According to one of Ho’s students, winning the competition is a bittersweet moment for the 90-year-old, who had thought about retiring from the martial art circle after his wife of 63 years passed away about six months ago.
“It is the words of encouragement from my students that have reminded me of my mission to reinvigorate and pass down the national sport,” Ho said.
Ho said he has decided to donate half of his NT$100,000 prize money to the Alzheimer’s foundation, in a bid to help more elderly people who have also lost their “better halves” to walk away from the grief.
Awesome axes from World of Warcraft.. He's level 90 warrior
I've met Grandmaster Bautista. I had no idea he was 75. He moves like a much younger man.
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A GRANDMASTER’S JOURNEY
75-year-old martial arts expert credits students for his success
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Martial Arts Grandmaster Emil Bautista
Lisa James/Register
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2013 - VALLEJO, CA - Martial arts Grandmaster Emil Bautista, a 9th degree black belt and long time American Canyon resident, has operated his school, Kajukenbo Martial Arts in Vallejo, for 45 years. Bautista, who just turned 75, still provides hands-on instruction to students of all levels. Lisa James/Register
October 23, 2013 11:50 am • MICHAEL WATERSON
AMERICAN CANYON — At first glance Emil Bautista might not look like a formidable opponent in a street fight, but would-be muggers better look again.
The 75-year-old longtime American Canyon resident is a martial arts expert, a senior grandmaster, and has taught at his school, Kajukenbo Self-Defense Institute of Vallejo, for 45 years.
Bautista, who looks much younger than his age, said his journey in martial arts began at age 23 when he started attending karate classes at Travis Air Force base. Bautista said he worked on the base as a civilian physical education instructor.
After several years of training, the East Bay native gravitated to instructor Antonio Ramos, one of the early masters of Kajukenbo, a hybrid martial arts form developed in the late 1940s in Hawaii that combines karate, judo, kenpo and boxing.
Before acquiring the building on Benicia Road in 1968, Bautista trained in a single-car garage, at private residences and other places.
“We used to train anywhere and everywhere,” said Bautista.
Like a dance studio, his school has a full-length mirror running along one wall for training purposes. Above the mirror are the words: “Yes, sir, No, sir” and “Yes, ma’am, No, ma’am.”
“Students have to learn diplomacy and courtesy,” Bautista said.
His students come from all walks of life and a wide variety of occupations, among them law enforcement, technology, even public school teachers. One of his former students is the principal of Vallejo High School, Clarence Isadore, he said.
Bautista credits his students with his success, noting that several have gone on to open their own martial arts schools.
“It wasn’t me, it was these guys that did it,” Bautista said, indicating the half-dozen instructors and students of varying ages in combative stances around the room.
Nowadays Bautista mostly lets other instructors in his school do the teaching while he critiques.
The school has never been his sole support, Bautista said. Over the years, he worked for a vending machine company, a furniture store and as a bartender while teaching self-defense in his off-hours.
“I don’t call this a business,” Bautista said.
While his calling may be violent, Bautista’s home life is stable and peaceful. He and his wife, Betty, have two adult sons and have lived in American Canyon since 1974.
“I’m very blessed,” said Bautista.
Still rolling with them young'ens. Impressive.Quote:
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Bad a** grandpa: Ohio man, 74, earns Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt
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Brazilian jiu-jitsu is one of the most physical forms of martial arts. And it's a sport that James Terlecki has spent many years perfecting, no matter how late in life.
Eddie Bravo and Royler Gracie aren't the only old dudes making news in Brazilian jiu-jitsu these days.
A 74-year-old Ohio man recently earned his black belt, according to a report by WKBN. James Terlecki has been training in BJJ for 13 years and just earned the prestigious honor.
"I still feel very strong," he said. "I feel as strong as I did when I was 20 years old. My bones don't break or nothing. I roll around and everything. They're strong. This keeps your bones strong."
Terlecki, who trains at his son's gym Next Level Martial Arts in Austintown, isn't a novice. He's been training in martial arts for 30 years. Terlecki might have gotten a late start -- in his 40s -- but he's no slouch.
"At first I thought you had to be gentle with Mr. T, but that lasted about one minute until I was unconscious I think," training partner Rob Sullivan said. "And then I started going after him. I tell you, you can't ease up one bit."
Just the opposite, says Terlecki. People in BJJ class don't want to get tapped by a septuagenarian.
"It's almost like, 'Oh I'm not going to let that old man beat me,'" Terlecki said. "So they roll harder with you than they would normally with their buddy."
Terlecki's son, James Jr., has a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt under the highly regarded Marcello Monteiro and has trained kickboxing with well-known coach Duke Roufus. The 38-year-old is thrilled to have the ability to hang out with his dad on the mats.
"How awesome is that?" James Jr. said. "How many people get to do that with your dad?"
That's a guy who probably grew up saying "my dad can beat up your dad." Now he might be able to say: "My dad can beat up your son."
"I'm not bragging or anything, but my wife never felt like she was afraid to go anywhere with me," Terlecki said. "She always felt like she was protected."
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Photo gallery: 80-year-old martial arts instructor
Helen Dugan, 80, is a great-grandmother and a martial arts instructor. She holds a third-degree black belt.
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Helen Dugan, owner of karate school Champs Achievers in Lenexa, quiets the class as 3-year-old Aiden Degnan tries to get Dugan's attention on Monday, March 9, 2015. The 80-year-old grandmother is a third-degree black belt and teaches karate classes exclusively to people with special needs.
ALLISON LONG The Kansas City Star
Very impressive! What a treasure. RESPECT!
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Defying age with a sword: Meenakshi Gurrukkal, Kerala’s grand old Kalaripayattu dame
At 74, she is possibly the oldest woman exponent of Kalaripayattu, the ancient martial arts from Kerala.
Saturday, February 6, 2016 - 14:19
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By Supriya Unni Nair
Meenakshi Gurukkal crouched low, sword poised; her eyes unblinking as she faced her opponent in the mud-paved 'kalari' or arena. From the tree tops, a mynah's call resonated in the silence. In a flash she moved to attack, twirling her sword; metal clashing loudly as it made contact with a shield.
At 74, she is possibly the oldest woman exponent of Kalaripayattu, the ancient martial arts from Kerala. She has been practising Kalaripayattu for no less than sixty-eight years - training and teaching.
Around 150 students learn Kalaripayattu in her school Kadathanadan Kalari Sangam, in a tiny hamlet in Vadakara, near Calicut, Kerala. From June to September every year, classes are held thrice a day teaching the Northern style of Kalaripayattu, including "uzhichil" or massages for aches and pains. Techniques have been passed down through generations, written in a palm ‘booklet’, grey and delicate with age. When school term is over, Meenakshi takes part in performances. “Nowadays, apart from teaching, I practise only when I have a show,” she says nonchalantly. This, from someone who on an average performs in 60 shows a year.
More than a third of the students are girls, aged between six and twenty six. Meenakshi’s school welcomes children from all walks of life. "Gender and community are totally irrelevant. What matters is age. The earlier you start, the more proficient you are," she explains.
The school runs on a 'no fees' principle. At the end of each year, students give her whatever guru dakshina they chose to. Today, some of her students are now Gurukkals or masters themselves.
The kalari walls display weapons - fist daggers, shields, spears, thick wooden rods, tusk-shaped 'ottas' and 'urumis' - long flexible blades used in combat. Among them is a shield, polished, but old with use - one that Meenakshi herself had trained with as a young girl.
She started learning Kalaripayattu at the age of six, when her father had taken her and her sister to a local kalari. "There were only a handful of girls in our class. But my father wasn't bothered. He was determined we learn Kalaripayattu," she says.
Meenakshi turned out to be naturally gifted, and her father encouraged her to continue training even past puberty, when girls normally stopped.
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It was then that she met and married Raghavan Master, a school teacher with a passion for Kalaripayattu. Shunned from joining a local kalari because he was from the backward Thiyya/Ezhava community, Raghavan Master had built his own Kalaripayattu training school in defiance. Kadathanadan Kalari Sangam was set up in 1949; a place where anyone and everyone who had a passion for the martial art could join. "His goal was to make Kalaripayattu accessible to everyone. Today we have done that," explained Meenakshi, who started teaching Kalaripayattu at his training school at age 17.
Oral folklore in north Kerala, known as Vadakkan Pattu or Northern Ballads, is rich with tales of Kalaripayattu champions. Among them are the Thiyya/Ezhava warriors of Puthooram tharavad in North Malabar- heroes and heroines such as Aromal Chekavar, an expert in 'ankam' (duelling) and Unniarcha, a women skilled in 'urumi' combat who singlehandedly took on vagabonds to ensure safe passage for women in that area. Ironically, Raghavan Master, from the same Thiyya/Ezhava community, had to fight discrimination in the late 1940s and set up a separate kalari to train and teach.
Historians stress that Kalaripayattu was popular in medieval Kerala.
"Each 'desam' or locality had a kalari or gymnasium with a guru at its head and both boys and girls received physical training in it," noted historian Prof A Sreedhara Menon in his work 'A Survey of Kerala History'.
Portuguese traveller Duarte Barbosa, wrote of how he saw Kalaripayattu students in North Kerala in the early 1500s, who "...Learn twice a day as long as they are children... and they become so loose jointed and supple that they make them turn their bodies contrary to nature.." (exerpt from The Book of Duarte Barbosa, Volume II, Duarte Barbosa)
Mythology credits Parasurama being the father of Kalaripayattu having learnt in from Shiva himself. Historically, it finds mention in early Sangam literature. Kerala historian, Elamkulam Kunjan Pillai, in his book Studies in Kerala History, opined that the northern form Kalaripayattu practised today came into existence in 11 th century, in the wake of the strife between the Tamil Kingdoms of Cheras and Cholas.
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Later, colonial rulers were quick to ensure that locals did not pose a threat to them, and strongly discouraged Kalaripayattu. Their prudish sensibilities also prevented women from learning such skills. Prof Menon noted that after the 17 th century, interest in Kalaripayattu declined.
Restrictions on carrying arms ensured that most Kalaripayattu weapons were kept in cold storage.
Kalaripayattu was revived in the 1920s, but practitioners had to ask authorities for special licences to use weapons.
“It was well past Independence that things really picked up. Now it's a way of life for us," says Meenakshi. Her children, two sons and two daughters, also started training in Kalaripayattu at six, and today her son Sajeev is a Gurukkal. "I will practise Kalaripayattu for as long as I physically can," she adds.
This grand dame of Kalaripayattu is determined to prove the cliché that age is just a number.