Willie Nelson (Photo by Pamela Springsteen)
Willie Nelson Is A Martial Arts Master
Willie Nelson is best known for his love of the devil’s lettuce, but did you know he holds a 5th-degree black belt in a Korean martial art called GongKwon Yusul?
He also holds a 2nd-degree black belt in Taekwondo.
He reminded us the other day when he posted a picture of himself with the caption, “Black belt by day, Red Headed Stranger by night.”
Then Luke Combs shared a hilarious story about the first time he ever met Willie while in Hawaii.
“I remember Willie getting up, and he walks down. I’m sitting at this table, he doesn’t say anything to anyone, he gets up, these guys are playing poker. He gets up, he walks right past me, all the way down the hallway, and there’s this punching bag at the end of the hallway. And he stands there, arms out, like full karate kid and starts just kicking this punching bag. Tossing crane kicks, dude, he’s 84… just hammering this punching bag. And I’m looking at the poker table, and I’m like, what is happening? Nobody sees this happen.He goes out, is out for five minutes, could’ve been five hours, I don’t know the difference at this point… comes back in, stops at the thing, hits one more crane kick, walks back in, doesn’t say a peep about it. Sits back down like nothing happened, and I’m like, that’s my moment. I’ve had my moment with Willie Nelson, and it was him doing the crane kicks at God knows what time it is in Maui baked out of my gourd at his house. It was wild. It was absolutely wild.”
