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Those two events motivate me to start training.   this chance to enter.
I have trained under several systems, such as:
Tae Kwon Do, Karate, Kali, Jeet Kune Do, and      I am natural and enjoy it. There were some other
Boxing, lately, I trained with Grand Master       small roles and more stunts in movie, then I was
Eric Lee in Wun Hop Kuen Do. Sifu Eric Lee        asked to become the choreographer of nearly
has not only been my sifu, but my friend and      twenty combat movies and I jumped on all
mentor in the choreographies of combats.          two feet. My expertise directing commercials
My first work performance of combats was in       helped a lot, since I usually watch the combat
Hollywood, it was a movie that my sifu Eric Lee   on the screen from a cinematographic angle.
choreographed the name “Ring of Fired”.
                                                  What Is Your Favorite
I have trained with many grand masters from       Choreography?
time to time, they have all influenced on me.
Hence, even when I am performing a movie, I       I have choreographed more than 300
am learning from them. Recently, Grand master     combats for film making; most of them are
Samuel Kwok started to tech me of art of Wing     good enough. None of them is my favorite,
Chun. To learn from him is a great honor to       but some are highlighted by some elements.
me. I still consider myself a White Belt and do   For instance, in Half Past Dead, we decided
not want to be disrespectful to all these Grand   to perform the Hong Kong style. I worked
masters who have taught me a lot.                 with a Chinese choreographer named Xin Xin
                                                  Xiong, we created scenes using cables Chinese
Entering To Movie Making                          like style combined with the Aikido of Steven
                                                  Seagal. In The Secuela con Bill Goldber, we
I started to work as a walker-on in a publicity   went for harder combats under the American
agency in Spanish before I turned a movie         style. In films with Don Wilson we used Street
star. I began cleaning toilets, and in less than  style combined with kickboxing.
a year I was acting, producing and writing
commercials for television in Spanish to my
dear mentor Mr. Aaron Berger.

I did not know how to enter into movies, so,
I did some extra work for about nine months
to get some experience about the job. At the
same time, I attended auditions for a role
form movie making. I was very lucky to get a
role as a co-star in the movie “Connexion in
Chinatown”, by this time my sifu Eric lee was
a movie choreographer and called me to be
kicked in one of them, I took advantage of

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