Martial arts in their blood

Legacy packs a punch: Asian kumite champion Muhammad Arif Afifuddin with his father Ab Malik Abdullah and mother Rusma Ismail who is holding a framed photograph of the children, surrounded by the medals they have won over the years. — ZHAFARAN NASIB/The Star

GREATNESS, it has been said, runs in the blood.

This certainly seems to be the case with Ab Malik Abdullah’s family.