Kung Fu

update: I am so excited because I am now back to pre covid training and am teaching and practicing martial arts. Nothing makes me feel happier or more empowered than when I am teaching and empowering others to be the best versions of themselves. Whether it be singing, SEO, encouraging making great life decisions, Wing Chun, or Taekwondo, I love it all. Everyone should be given the opportunity to grow under the encouragement of good teachers. I now have many martial arts schools as clients. I am helping them be found for Taekwondo classes near me and such things to help new students find their martial arts schools. I am happy to say that it is going well. I love helping people achieve their dreams in any way I can. 

Another fun new thing I am incorporating into my martial arts training is free climbing at my rock climbing gym near me. I have always loved learning new things, and since I hate core work, I thought climbing would be a fun and effective way to strengthen my core. I have so much fun that I barely notice how taxing it can be. For recovery, I can also take yoga classes, use the wide open foam rolling and stretching area that allows me to watch the really killer climbers do scary things LOL. Some of these people are the ones who actually go rock climbing and take lots of risks. That is definitely not my style. But I will watch from a safer place and cheer them on! 

The most exciting part of all of this is I got to start training with my Wing Chun Master for the first time in two years. And while I was a little rusty, it went much better than I had anticipated. I can't wait until Friday gets here so I can do it again! Maybe more movies will be in my future. Who can tell?

Kung Fu 

My Wing Chun Sifu, Sifu Pham, invited me to play a role in his latest Kung Fu commercial shoot. With so many amazing martial artists on set, it was an incredible and humbling opportunity to be involved! The full length commercial will be out soon, and will be online in America, and air on TV in Hong Kong, India, and Vietnam.

Taekwondo Kicks

In this fight scene, I fight Sifu Pham using Taekwondo techniques. Taekwondo is my specialty, because it is my base martial art. I am a second degree recommended black belt in Taekwondo, but I still have such a long way to go! Now, along with my continued Taekwondo training with my Taekwondo instructor, I train Wing Chun with my Sifu, but in this scene, he decided he would like to showcase some of our Taekwondo kicks for the camera! 

Fight Scene

Our sequence was quite simple. I prepare with my ready stance, then throw a back leg crescent kick another crescent kick, and land with a cross, jab, back hand hook, and finally a lead hand haymaker. Of course, Sifu blocks all of my strikes with ease, and pushes me out of the way with a Tai Chi flow movement. 
I have been training my arms with my other Wing Chun instructor, as well as on my wooden dummy, to harden them and prevent bruising. I have not been bruising anymore lately, but when I threw my strikes at Sifu, I realized just how dense his arms are! He has done so much body hardening that his bones are extremely dense and heavy, and it actually feels like he is blocking with iron beams wrapped in skin. It’s incredible! I can’t wait to further my Wing Chun Kung Fu training. 
If anyone is interested in hiring Sifu and his production crew for a commercial production shoot, contact me!