Veteran Ju-Jitsu instructor, Burnell Williams, is using something special to give his youth classes a special kick ­­— harmonica music.Mr Williams, 79, has just released a CD of harmonica music called Bermuda Music for Lovers By the Ocean, to raise money for children who normally couldn’t afford to take martial arts classes with him.“Myself and Dale Butler made the CD about a month ago,” said Mr Williams. “Every Saturday we went out to different places to record. It took us about two or three Saturdays. It is nice, beautiful love music that everyone can relate to.”Ju-Jitsu (or Jiu-Jitsu) is a Japanese martial art where you use your opponent’s force against himself rather than confronting it with your own force. In 2011 Mr Williams successfully completed all the requirements demanded by the United Sanuces Family Association in the art of Sanuces Ryu Jiu-Jitsu for the rank of Honorary Grandmaster an eighth degree black belt. He had previously earned his tenth degree black belt in Italy.“I had been a body builder,” said Mr Williams, “but in the 1960s I started doing karate. Body building was more of an ego thing. I found martial arts was more like a family. Then in the 1970s I started doing Ju-Jitsu because there was no force needed. I found that more acceptable than all the kicking and punching involved in karate. My first master was Peter Larder who was from Bournemouth, England.”In the late 1980s he moved to Italy and taught martial arts for 16 years. When he returned to Bermuda in 2003 he had 275 students in three different schools in Italy. Now he is works as a personal trainer at the Olympic Club and is possibly the oldest personal trainer on the Island.“New clients do look surprised when they see how old I am,” he said. “I also work in the evenings as a security guard at a restaurant in the City of Hamilton.”Despite his high rank in Ju-Jitsu, he prefers to use his mind to handle situations, if he can. For example, one night an intoxicated restaurant patron was getting rowdy when Mr Williams asked him to step outside.“You want to fight,” the patron asked aggressively, but Mr Williams took his hand and said, “Look, I want to thank you; it’s people like you that keep me employed.”Confused, the patron stumbled away, but later returned to apologise.“Fighting never really solves anything,” said Mr Williams. “Plus, I’d be all over the papers the next morning if I used my martial arts on him.”Mr Williams stays fit by working out twice a day.“I do a high intensity workout, and I walk 45 minutes daily,” he said. “On the weekends I fast until Monday morning at 11am. Until then I don’t eat anything, but I drink this organic apple cider vinegar and about three quarts of water a day. Monday morning I come off my fast with oatmeal and a banana. I have been doing that for years. Your stomach has to be empty so it can be cleaned out. It needs a rest. I don’t suffer from high blood pressure or anything. The only thing I suffer from are stupid accidents. I was a ski instructor and the ski came loose and I tore my hips up.”But he said teaching the children Ju-Jitsu on the weekends was the most rewarding thing he did. He produced the CD, so that more children could take martial arts classes, regardless of whether their parents had any money.A lot of people don’t know that Mr Williams plays the harmonica, but growing up, music was an important part of his life.“In my house my mother and father, Peter and Norma Williams, taught music,” he said. “They were preachers in the Salvation Army, and my father was from the Turks and Caicos Islands. My mother insisted on my practising the piano, but the harmonica was my thing. At 13 I could play it. I was part of a music group in the 1950s called the Serenaders. We played in every hotel including the Eagles Nest and the Castle Harbour Hotel. Back then Bermuda might have 50,000 tourists in a season.”The CD is available now. There is no price on the CD but people who want it are asked to make a donation.“It is not about how much I am going to make off this CD,” he said.For more information about the CD contact Mr Williams at the Olympic Club at 292-4095. To learn more about Mr Williams also see his book called Believe in Yourself.