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WHICH STYLE IS MY FAVORITE? person calls me and says the fights look ama-
zing they were all real and my body is killing
I personally gravitate and am most happy me. Truthfully, I shake my head, this is not an
practicing the Kung Fu styles. They are fluid advertisement you want out there. As a fighter,
for me and somehow just connect with my soul we will work with actors who are not real figh-
naturally. For this reason, the Kung Fu arts are ters and the last thing any actor wants to hear
my life path and a journey that I am enjoying about their possible co-star or stunt people
and intend to enjoy until my final breath on this is that they my injure them or kill them. Also,
earth. However, that being said, I do respect for insurance reasons and a variety of factors
all the various styles and enjoy learning from like story telling, you are a liability if you are
all the amazing Masters that I am blessed to making full contact and actually fighting, not
meet. movie fighting. I always recommend to fighters
that if they have an opportunity to take a semi-
HOW DO YOU GET TO USE IT IN nar on fighting for film, they should, it will help
MOVIES? your movie career.

Actually, I’ve used it in a variety of ways in film
and to truthfully, it is why it is good to study a
variety of styles and the other actors and stunt
people come from different fight backgrounds,
it really helps and makes a difference in the
Choreography.

This is an interesting question because the tra-
ining is also very different. I have learned to
take the practical and train a little differently
for film. Example, instead of hitting the bag all
the time, I will work on distance control, I will
try to come as close as possible without hit-
ting the bag. Recently , my Sifu, Grand Master
Samuel Kwok gave me an exercise of punching
fast towards a hanging piece of paper, not ma-
king it move, and coming as close as possible.
This is fantastic for movie work. Most fights in
film have little to no contact. The reason, you
have to do several takes of the same fight and
that can go on for hours, so, if everyone is beat
up that makes it impossible. Also, on the phy-
sical appearance side of things, if you start off
pretty with make up and then you have mana-
ged to get a black eye, cut lip, or swollen face,
this does no good for the story the director is
trying to tell. Whenever, and actor or new stunt