{"id":33130,"date":"2025-08-15T05:45:53","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=33130"},"modified":"2025-08-15T05:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T09:04:18","slug":"willie-nelson-is-a-martial-arts-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/08\/willie-nelson-is-a-martial-arts-master\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie Nelson Is A Martial Arts Master"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Willie Nelson is best known for his love of the devil&#8217;s lettuce, but did you know he holds a 5th-degree black belt in a Korean martial art called GongKwon Yusul?<\/p>\n<p>He also holds a 2nd-degree black belt in Taekwondo.<\/p>\n<p>He reminded us the other day when he posted a picture of himself with the caption, &#8220;Black belt by day, Red Headed Stranger by night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DNGbEeosT8e\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n<p>Then Luke Combs shared a hilarious story about the first time he ever met Willie while in Hawaii.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI remember Willie getting up, and he walks down. I\u2019m sitting at this table, he doesn\u2019t 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\u2019s this punching bag at the end of the hallway.\u00a0And he stands there, arms out, like full karate kid and starts just kicking this punching bag. Tossing crane kicks, dude, he\u2019s 84\u2026 just hammering this punching bag. And I\u2019m looking at the poker table, and I\u2019m like, what is happening? Nobody sees this happen.He goes out, is out for five minutes, could\u2019ve been five hours, I don\u2019t know the difference at this point\u2026 comes back in, stops at the thing, hits one more crane kick, walks back in, doesn\u2019t say a peep about it. Sits back down like nothing happened, and I\u2019m like, that\u2019s my moment. I\u2019ve 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.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PpPLm2v93Bs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Willie Nelson is best known for his love of the devil&#8217;s lettuce, but did you know he holds a 5th-degree black belt in a Korean martial art called GongKwon Yusul?","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":20623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[9952,3386,357,9953,9954,3633],"class_list":["post-33130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-gongkwon-yusul","tag-hawaii","tag-luke-combs","tag-martial-arts","tag-taekwondo","tag-willie-nelson"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 18:59:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/08\/willie-nelson-is-a-martial-arts-master\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}