Speaking in an interview with the Sunday Standard last week about his academy, 38 year old Gaethuse who hails from Francistown said that his fully registered institution is growing in leaps and bounds and sparking interest across the country. These famous Kung Fu movie stars are also real life kung Fu martial artists. For movie fanatics, the word “Kung Fu” would ring a bell especially as one would immediately think of famous movie stars such as the late Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Lee. Over the years this method of fighting has ignited interest across the world including taking the Hollywood movie industry by storm. According to history, this sophisticated method of fighting using hands, feet and weapons was founded by an Indian Monk and supposed founder of Zen Buddhism Bordhidama sometimes in the 5th and 6th centuries.Īlthough part of it has also been transformed into sport over the years, it is used as some form of meditation, installation of discipline and exercise to promote healthy living. Shaolin Kung Fu which is also called “Shaolin Wushu” is one of the oldest and most famous styles of fighting which traces its roots from China. The school targets both children and adults but mostly children from as young as three years of age to 16 years.

One of these is the Francistown based White Tiger Shaolin Kung Fu and Positive Children Academy, a fully-fledged Shaolin Kung Fu academy founded by a Motswana Master (Sifu) Maclean “Young” Gaethuse in 2013.įrom its humble beginnings back then, the academy which is housed in Ngilichi properties in the Ntshe location of Francistown has grown tremendously and now boasts of close to 200 students.

In fact it is already growing in leaps and bounds as evidenced by a number of academies setting their foot in the country. Kung Fu is slowly finding its foothold in Botswana.

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