Guy Savelli was a martial artist, teacher, and spiritual healer. He taught the spiritual and mental aspects of martial arts, especially
Kuntao
Kuntao or kuntau ( 拳 道, Pe̍h-ōe-jī: kûn-thâu, Tagalog: kuntaw) is a Hokkien term for the martial arts of the Chinese community of Southeast Asia, specifically the Malay Archipelago. It is most commonly practiced in and associated with I ...
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In 1983, Savelli was recruited by Col.
Nick Rowe to train U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers in his techniques at Fort Bragg. Among Savelli's students were hand-to-hand combat instructors for the U.S. Army Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) program. Savelli was further engaged as a hand-to-hand combat instructor for Special Operations units in the early 2000s. His experiences are detailed in Ronson's 2004 book ''
The Men Who Stare at Goats''.
Savelli was a research subject at
Duke University, the Psychical Research Institute, and the
Mind Science Foundation in
San Antonio, Texas
("Cradle of Freedom")
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. Positive results of his work have been published in ''Research in Parapsychology'', the ''Journal of Parapsychology'',
[1986 and 1987] as well as by the Parapsychology Department of
JFK University. Savelli has also authored an introductory text on the ''Spiritual, Mental, and Physical Teachings of Chinese Kung-Fu''. Savelli died of Covid-19 on December 1, 2020.
References
External links
Master Guy Savelli
Living people
American male martial artists
American psychics
Year of birth missing (living people)
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