Teachers’ day was celebrated with jubilation on September 5 and the people remembered their Gurus and felicitated them across the country. India’s and Bollywood’s martial art expert and Chairman of the “Chitah Jeet Kune Do Global Sports Federation”, Cheetah Yajnesh Shetty has been engaged in imparting the martial art training to Bollywood personalities for over the last three decades.
Shetty has given the personal training of martial art and the training for the films to over 150 super star actors and actresses including Amitabh Bachchan, Ajay Devgan, Akshay Kumar, Hrithik Roshan, Govinda, Juhi Chawla, Priyanka Chopra, Isha Koppikar, Karishma Kapoor and Farhan Akhtar.
Shetty offered emotional condolences to his Guru late Richard S Bustillo, who was the President and Chief Trainer at the International Martial Art and Boxing Academy, Torrance, California, on the Teachers’ Day.
Guru Richard S Bustillo had gone out of the way to train Yajnesh Shetty. He participated in the memorial service of Sifu Ted Wong on Sunday and joined Bruce Lee’s daughter Shannon Emery Lee and wife Linda Lee Cadwel for dinner. Bustillo paid a rich compliment to Bruce Lee for his interest in Jeet Kune Do. Speaking to Shannon and Linda, he spoke highly about Yajnesh’s affection, dedication and loyalty towards Lee.
Bustillo also told them how Yajnesh was celebrating Bruce Lee’s birth anniversary every year in India. Yajnesh Shetty had felicitated Bustillo, accompanied by his students on the occasion of Lee’s 70 th birth anniversary.
Shannon and Linda were pleased that Shetty took Bruce Lee to new heights in India and was organising programs in his honour every year. Bustillo had said that both Shannon and Linda paid rich compliments to Shetty. He had also told Yajnesh Shetty. “You are a respectable and loyal student and that is why your glory and skilled experience has made you the best trainer.”
