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| Born | William Wayne Blanks September 1, 1955 Erie, Pennsylvania, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Actor, martial artist, fitness personality | ||||||||||||||
| Years active | 1981–present | ||||||||||||||
| Spouses | Gayle H. Godfrey
(m. 1974; div. 2008)Tomoko Sato (m. 2009) | ||||||||||||||
| Children | 5, including Billy Jr. | ||||||||||||||
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| Team | Atlantic World Karate (formerly)[1][2] | ||||||||||||||
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William Wayne Blanks (born September 1, 1955) is an American actor, martial artist and fitness personality. He was a nationally ranked competitor in semi-contact and point karate during the 1980s,[4][5] winning a bronze medal at the 1981 World Games,[3] before creating the Tae Bo exercise program.[6][7][8][9]
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- ^ a b c "Billy Blanks". Martial Arts Encyclopedia. November 11, 2022. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
- ^ a b "Result history of The World Games | IWGA". www.theworldgames.org. Retrieved May 10, 2023.
- ^ "Steve Nasty Anderson Remembers the Decade He Spent on Top of Sport Karate - Black Belt Magazine". blackbeltmag.com. Retrieved May 10, 2023.
- ^ "NASKA National Ratings 1987". Martial Arts Encyclopedia. July 30, 2022. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
- ^ "Blanks' life not letter perfect". CNN. September 26, 2002. Retrieved June 10, 2010.
- ^ Green, Penelope (March 21, 1999). "MIRROR, MIRROR; Punching and Kicking All the Way to the Bank". The New York Times. Retrieved August 12, 2010.
- ^ Doyle, Alicia (November 4, 1994). "A New Exercise Kick". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 23, 2010.
- ^ "On Top of the World". Inside Kung Fu. Archived from the original on December 16, 2010. Retrieved February 11, 2011.