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Kung Fu Grannies

Postby Dvivid » Fri May 14, 2010 11:01 pm

http://www.salon.com/life/2010/05/12/af ... index.html

Elderly women learn self-defense as rape attacks increasingly target women over 60 - By TOM ODULA,

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...
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Postby yat_chum » Sat May 15, 2010 2:44 am

"Don't feel any mercy. Was he coming to read the Bible with you?"
Kariuki asks the women.
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Zhang Hexian has been trending again

Postby gching » Mon Jun 28, 2021 12:31 pm

Such an inspiration
http://en.people.cn/n3/2021/0621/c90000-9863337.html
98-year-old kung fu grandma becomes internet sensation
(People's Daily Online) 17:30, June 21, 2021
Spirited 98-year-old kung fu granny Zhang Hexian recently became a social media sensation after video clips of her showing off her amazing kung fu moves at a martial arts competition, which was held to promote public fitness, in a village in Ninghai county, east China’s Zhejiang province.

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At the event, she also taught some foreign kung fu lovers how to punch, one of the many martial arts moves she’s mastered.

“Kung fu spirit never gets old,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian tweeted on June 18, extending his praises to her.

“You are so great!” commented one netizen on Chinese Twitter-like social media platform Weibo.

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“She is so strong for her age,” added another.

According to Zhang, she started to learn martial arts at the age of five. “I would box every day, learning movements such as chopping, pushing palm and thrusting palm,” she said.

Kung fu has also brought her good health. “Even though I am old now, my strength hasn’t gone away,” Zhang added.

As a martial artist, the grandmother has long been well-known in her hometown, where the tradition of practicing kung fu has endured for more than 500 years.

Zhang’s family members have also learned kung fu. “We practice kung fu for health reasons. Attacking others is absolutely unacceptable,” Zhang said.
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Bummer, those pix won't upload

Postby gching » Mon Jun 28, 2021 12:33 pm

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