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Stuntman, Actor, Action Designer, SAG-AFTRA
The current situation on Twitter, which I can only ascertain through the thick walls of my office ever since deactivating my account, indicates either that the savior of free speech has arrived, or the apocalypse is nigh. Whichever side of this discussion you fall on, you might agree that Musk has now grasped control of [...]
https://youtu.be/TXukPnO9IdY After years of secrecy, I'm pleased to finally announce my involvement in God of War Ragnarök as the stuntman for Kratos as well as various other characters. Even more exciting, our action design studio SuperAlloy Interactive assisted with combat choreography and provided stunt coordination and stunt work for the game and key characters. Thank [...]
Prodigal Son (1981) 敗家仔 Starring Yuen Biao, Sammo Hung, Lam Ching Ying, Frankie Chan, Peter Chan Lung, Dick Wei, Chung Faat, James Tien Directed by Sammo Hung Produced by Raymond Chow Action by Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, Lam Ching-Ying, and Billy Chan Wui-Ngai Beat Sheet Opening Image 0:00 Leung Jan (Yuen Biao) earns respect through [...]
Well, I didn't totally leave social media. I left Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. I'm still on LinkedIn and YouTube, and Telegram is quasi-social media, but these latter platforms don't have the problems plaguing the other ones. Since people have asked me why I'm leaving, here's a concise blog post explaining it. 1. Addictive If you're [...]
I'm a pretty careful stuntman, but often the injuries we withstand happen in the more mundane parts of life. I've taken various steps to change my lifestyle so that I don't get injured, both on and off set, and so here are 5 of those things that I do, which, according to expert opinion, are [...]
I don't like to sugar-coated my reviews of action films, and I never have. I wrote action movie reviews back in 1998, and later on some people involved in those films saw the reviews and complained. As a stuntman, this probably lost me some jobs, but I've earned some jobs too, since smart directors and [...]
Vaporwave is fascinating. Something about it is very soothing, despite being totally eerie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQkPcPqTq4M I've used some Vaporwave aesthetics in some of my past videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=221zGsGe0HQ I began obsessing over this strange sub-genre of music. The air of nostalgia you get from this stuff is mind-boggling. For example, if you're an American born in the [...]
Another day, another book burned, another body on the pyre. Are they allowed to do that? How do they get away with it?
Noh is an ancient Japanese theatrical art form. Its sacred backbone might help us understand modern Japanese action.