In a small studio in San Francisco's Noe Valley, the 92-year-old Keiko Fukuda holds court. She's had a hold on judo the past 80 years. The top female practitioner of the sport - ever.
She's a pedigree. Her grandfather was a famed samurai jiu-jitsu warrior. She attended the first judo class which ever allowed women.
Fukuda is now a 9th-degree black belt. No woman has ever achieved that rank in history.
Her students can be 70 years her junior. The mind is sharp - her body is not. But her spirit is something else.
"She will start a sentence with, 'When I get old,'" said friend Shelley Fernandez. "She does not see herself as old."
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