Here is a CLF spar form from Guangzhou..two old guys.
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.
Great
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
[QUOTE=esox;1009577]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[/QUOTE]
lol. they are doing a choreographed set and are not trying to hit each other while at the same time expressing the movement of the style.
having said that, I have several different ways to attack the limbs as drawn from the cmas I have been taught
Greetings,
I like, very much.
mickey
Nice one, hskwarrior
Still busting tornado kicks in their 80’s. AWESOME!
Gotta love this kind of stuff, he could whip my Dad’s ass…
Slightly OT
This is a harsh story, but you got to give it up for kungfu grannies living in hell.
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.
[QUOTE=hskwarrior;1007563]Here is a CLF spar form from Guangzhou..two old guys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZESF2bY9CKs[/QUOTE]
i know these 2 gentlemen, i have met them at demo in Fatsaan, Naamhoi i thought it was Hap ga/baak hok/lama paai
Kf grannies
:mad: Really sad to read this Gene, God bless them.
7th dan at 77!
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.
Lollipop lady. What a quaint term.
hahahah very cool gene
Granny
Awesome 
better eat your peas or grandma will chicken wing you and make you eat em!!!
Here’s another!
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.
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’…
Tai Chi Centarian
150 tai chi postures? 
Well, we won’t dwell on that. Happy 100th Mr. Fisher!
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: