anyone heard of this man? 256 yrs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Chung_Yun

Here's his New York Times obituary:
http://www.martialdevelopment.com/blog/li-ching-yuen-the-amazing-250-year-old-ma n/
Abridged: http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0915FE3E5C16738DDDAF0894DD405B 838FF1D3

And here's a Time magazine article on him from May 15 1933:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,745510,00.html

he even created a bagua style:
http://www.jiulongbaguazhang.com/jiuhist.htm