77 Year-Old Granny Beats Up Italian Soldiers
We know Asian women are able to keep their looks as they age, but their strength as well?
Keiko Wakabayshi, also known as the “Samurai Granny†was hired by the Italian army to teach new soldiers hand to hand combat techniques. But if you think that she is only teaching the methods rather than putting them into practice, think again.
The 77 year old grandmother wipes the floor with her recruits, beating them up on a daily basis with the hopes that they will one day be able to learn the techniques themselves.
Since sparring is the best way to learn how to put martial arts into practice, Keiko is “forced†to take down her students one by one until they have learned to counter her attacks and master her techniques.
Not many soldiers believed that any Japanese women were going to be able to beat up the entire Italian army, let alone one a grandmother in her late 70’s, but their doubt was quickly turned into humiliation as their faces were thrown against the floor.
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- Travis Stroup is a guest poster and author of a guide to meeting Asian women.
By Travis Stroup on 09-07-2008
Comment by Sm4ll
July 10th, 2008 at 1:33 am
omg i wish she was my grandmother
Comment by jb
July 10th, 2008 at 3:19 am
Are you kidding me? A guest blogger who wrote a guide to meeting ASIAN WOMEN? Weirdasianews, you disgust me.
Comment by yugiminshiboutshu inythinasd
July 10th, 2008 at 4:23 am
Kewel stuff. I just discovered dis site today. Dis is a weird site 4 sure bt a pretty cool 1 as well. don’t worry i am weird & crazy dont get me wrong about dat. Its ninja granny!
Comment by Gozer The Destructor
July 10th, 2008 at 5:48 am
A 25 year old Chihuahua could wipe out the Italian army. They just surrender anyway.
Comment by Sultan_Azteca
July 10th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Huh… they were talking Italian, not French…
Oh! I got it! Italian, French, German, Russians, they all surrender. If they don’t (North Korea, Iran, Saddam’s Iraq, Cuba) are branded “rogue” states and “terrorists”. No wonder where you from, gringuito…
Hey, pretty cool way to teach martial arts: no explanations no training, just beating the sh*t out of your students on the mat. I would take a job like that for free!!! That would save me hundreds in my therapy sessions costs…
Comment by Sun Tzu
July 11th, 2008 at 1:21 am
Yeah.. we have this insane notion that people can write content for this site and we will publish it with credit… insanity and truely gross..
Somehow.. we will sleep tonight anyhow.. not sure how.
Comment by starboykb
July 11th, 2008 at 6:22 am
“but their doubt was quickly turned into humiliation as their faces were thrown against the floor”
ahhha…never judge an old book with only cover.
Comment by ray
July 12th, 2008 at 4:39 am
Yes, a big hurrah to freedom of the press (I’m not sure blogs can be considered “press”, though).
But guys that seek out Asian women are just plain CREEPY! (Unless it’s a employment guide for aspiring geishas or something.)
Comment by oskinny1
July 12th, 2008 at 10:35 am
Read history much Sultan? The Italians folded faster than anyone during WWII. At least the French never switched sides, they had a great resistance fighting throughout the war.
Not everyone here is from the US, and it seems most Western nations support the US’s decisions anyway.
Idiot. Need to go to a new therapist.
Comment by chumpman
July 15th, 2008 at 7:50 am
woah! this grandma rocks!
Comment by Rapper
July 15th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
That old woman is really cool! I don’t like the talk about humiliation though. In martial arts technique beats size and strength – I suppose that’s why they call it art in the first place. When I was at college for example I knew a martial arts girl much smaller than us guys who could put each one of us on the floor in seconds. Sure we were bigger and stronger, but she had far better technique, and that comes from practice.
Comment by jun
August 3rd, 2008 at 11:13 pm
that is one kick ass grandma
Comment by chomsky rules
August 7th, 2008 at 12:45 am
Y? Most asian women are hot.
Comment by clowangel
August 10th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Oh wow! O.O That’s one awesome grandmother! I wish I knew someone like her.
Comment by so?
August 13th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
hmm… you’re all so amazed so easily….
not to say that she isn’t amazing, but it seems to me that there are many strong grandmasters of all different styles of martial arts that are elderly. If you were to put them all up then there’d be a list just from shaolin temple.
Comment by Indra
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Oh please
Why don’t you make that list, instead of being condecending about people cheering for what they admire. Partypooper!
Hooray for the lady!