Thursday, May 24, 2007

Having a Smashing Time

These ladies are truly something else!

Story:
The 22 members of the South Korean 'Grandma Taekwondo Federation demonstration team', are aged between 58 and 78. Part of the daily training routine for the formidably tough grannies is to shatter stacks of roof tiles with a single powerful punch.

They exercise at least two hours a day and six days a week under the guidance of taekwondo master Yoon Yeo-Ho.

According to Mr Yoon, it started as an idea that the martial art could help these grannies improve their health and that "uniforms would look good on them".

Now, the team of TKD grannies now performs several times a year at home and abroad - in China, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines.

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