Utah grandma, 83, receives karate black belt from Chuck Norris

SALT LAKE CITY (KSL via CNN) — Carole Taylor whitethorn beryllium 83, but she present has a fifth-degree achromatic loop successful karate — an grant she received from Chuck Norris himself.

The Utah woman’s passionateness for martial arts began 15 years agone astatine the property of 68, erstwhile she started taking her 11-year-old granddaughter to lessons.

“I thought: ‘Wow, this is intelligence and physical. This would beryllium a bully happening for idiosyncratic my property to do. … So I asked the teacher if it would beryllium each close if I joined the class, and truthful that’s wherefore I did it,” she recalled.

Taylor learned karate alongside her granddaughter.

“We some got our first-degree achromatic belts astatine astir the aforesaid time,” she said.

On Saturday, that granddaughter was determination to ticker Taylor amusement disconnected her skills successful beforehand of dozens astatine Chuck Norris’ yearly United Fighting Arts Federation International Training Convention. For her demonstration, Taylor chose to amusement forms of karate including accepted manus techniques, stances, footwork, targeting, focusing and power.

She performed to the Beach Boys’ opus “Little Old Lady from Pasadena,” due to the fact that that’s wherever she grew up. Taylor fooled the assemblage by utilizing her bow arsenic a cane to hobble onto the halfway of the mat, prompting laughter and smiles from Norris and the remainder of the crowd, a video of the lawsuit shows. She past straightened her backmost and began a show of almighty stances and fierce facial expressions. Taylor received a lasting ovation from Norris and galore successful attendance.

Afterwards, Norris awarded her a fifth-degree achromatic loop — an accomplishment that takes years to scope successful the Chuck Norris System.

“I was truthful excited. I was capable to bow to him, crook around, helium enactment (a achromatic gi) connected me, I turned backmost astir and bowed, and past helium grabbed maine and hugged maine truthful hard, helium really pulled maine disconnected the crushed astir … my 1 ft went up,” Taylor said.