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Martial arts and action movie legend Keith Cooke talks to Andrew Staton about;

Bandanas and the famous Double Split Kick

China O'Brien 1 and 2

Being bullied

Discovering Bruce Lee

Impact of Bruce Lee

Seattle Kung Fu Club refused entry

Hung Gar

Roger Tung

Jimmy Hendrix

Quincy Jones

Forms Grand Championships

How did he break into movies?

What is Picasso Trigger?

How did he train Michael Bean from Terminator?

How did he get his break with Ernie Reyes Snr on a Gatorade commercial?

What was it like filming in Hawaii with Playboy Bunnies?

When did Fred Weintraub get in touch?

What was the Atlantic World Display Team?

What was it like working on China O'Brien 1 and 2 simultaneously?

How did he find filming in Park City, Utah?

What is the story behind the false hand?

What is the Alpine Slide?

What's it like filming at 7/8,00 feet altitude?

How do you do the Double Kick?

Training with Wushu teams in China

What does it mean getting the kick in early?

What was it like working with Robert Clouse and Fred Weintraub?

Did they talk about the death of Bruce Lee?

What was it like working with the Hong Kong Stunt team?

How did he react when he met Cynthia Rothrock and Richard Norton?

How did he get involved with The King Of the Kickboxers?

What was the audition like?

What was it like working with Corey Yuen?

How did he pull off the Triple Kick?

What was it like working on the movie Heat Seeker and with Gary Daniels?

How did they film 11 fights in 14 days?

Why is Coverage key to a good fight scene?

How did he become Reptile and Sub Zero in Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat Annihilation?

How did he find the movie star Christopher Lambert?

What is it like being in the Star Wars universe in The Book of Boba Fett as a Tusken Raider?

What is his connection to Avatar and Zoe Saldana?

How is he connected to Alita Battle Angel?

When did he become involved in Black Creek with Cynthia Rothrock?


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Amazing Cynthia Rothrock Martial Arts & Movie Legend Interview
Martial arts and movie legend Cynthia Rothrock talks to movie specialist Andrew Staton about;

How did Cynthia start in martial arts?

When and how did she become involved in the movie business?

Was she part of the West Coast Demonstration Team headed by Ernie Reyes Snr?

Why did the search for the next Bruce Lee lead to her being signed?

Was Corey Yuen the casting director for Seasonal Films from Hong Kong who chose her?

Did she manage to maintain her undefeated place in the Forms Competition for 5 years?

How did she progress from one movie to a full-time career?

What was it like working with Michelle Yeoh?

How tough was it working in the Hong Kong stunt/ fight world?

Why is Lady Reporter/ Blonde Fury her favourite movie to have worked on?

What was it like working with Golden Harvest in Hong Kong?

How did Golden Harvest break into the western market?

What was it like working with Robert Clouse and his style of directing from Enter The Dragon?

Did Robert Clouse prefer to shoot the fight scenes in long shots?

How did Richard Norton become involved in China O'Brien?

How did Keith Cooke become involved in China O'Brien?

How many takes were normal in Hong Kong fight scenes compared to in LA?

Is it 50 takes versus 7 takes?

What was it like to shoot with so many takes?

How did she feel filming 2 movies, China O'Brien 1 and 2 at the same time?

What was it like filming without stunt doubles and shooting so many physical takes?

How did she break her finger in China O'Brien 1?

What film split her internal ear open?

Did they see Cynthia Rothrock / China O'Brien as the "Queen of Kung Fu, who will take over from Bruce Lee"?

Did her success change the business for other women?

How did Fred Weintraub get China O'Brien into the city parade?

How did Robert Clouse refer to his time working with Bruce Lee?

How is her production Black Creek progressing?

Does she combine martial arts with cowboys?

How did she cast so many great action stars?

How did she manage to finance the film on Kickstarter?

How does she support the film's many backers?

Is China O'Brien 3 a possibility?

How did a Stallone movie offer get in the way of an earlier China O'Brien 3?

How on earth did she become involved in Santa's Summer House movie?

How did she end up as Mrs Claus?


Black Creek the movie can be found here on Kickstarter;
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Danny Lane Retired US Marine, Cop, Senior Instructor Chuck Norris Interview
The legendary Danny Lane in conversation with Mick Tully reveals;

What is the World Bushido Federation?

How did he become involved?

What is the aim of the organisation?

Is it an elite Oscars of the martial arts?

How will it promote martial arts?

What is his background?

How did he raise himself as a child?

How did he survive becoming homeless at 14yrs age?

Why did he join the Marine Corps?

Where was he deployed in Vietnam?

How many times was he wounded in combat?

Did he go from basic training to 90 days in combat in Danang, Vietnam?

How did he become a cop after the US Marines?

What happened to him after contracting malaria in Vietnam?

How did he function post Vietnam and as a policeman?

Did martial arts help him deal with PTSD?

How did he recover from medical heart issues?

How did the Marine's Hand to Hand Combat training help him in a knife fight with a Vietcong?

Did a chance encounter with a Korean in a pizza shop lead to Taekwondo?

Did he become a professional kickboxer?

How did he build a martial arts studio?

How did he meet and train with Chuck Norris, and become a senior instructor?

Did Chuck Norris become his business associate and friend?

Did he train at the same time with Jean Claude Van Damme and Chuck Norris?

How did overcome a heart attack?

Why did he start writing about his Vietnam combat experience, and being a cop on the streets?

How does God manifest in his life?

Danny Lane books and other material can be found here; https://dannylane.company.site/
Mick Tully runs MKG Coventry.
“You don't get to pick what bad things happen to you”
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Carl Fox is interviewed by Andrew Staton at Rise of The Dragon convention about his relaunch of the classic Kung Fu Monthly magazine.

How did he relaunch Kung Fu Monthly?

Why did one missing archive newsletter make the difference?

How did he convince Dennis Publishing?

How did lockdown help?

How did he redesign the original into the new release?

What is his design nod to OZ magazine?

How was the response?

Why did he do a colour version as well as a black and white version?

Why did he release the Dutch version of the Wisdom of Bruce Lee?

How did he translate it from the Dutch?

How did he learn everything whilst working?

How has Bruce Lee inspired him to do things he never thought he would?


Filmed by Dean Meadows of Pentagram Pictures at the Rise of the Dragon event 2023
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Jeet Kune Do: Devon Connection Koos Fockens
Koos Fockens talks to Andrew Staton about his journey through martial arts from Taekwondo to Jeet Kune Do

Bullied childhood

Taekwondo ITF

Black Belt at 16

Bruce Lee

Jeet Kune Do

Learning JKD

Building your own strengths

Instructor in UK

Koos Fockens is based in Newton Abbot, Devon, UK
JunfanJeetkunedo.co.uk
Filmed by Dean Meadows of Pentagram Pictures at the Rise of the Dragon event 2023
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James Ter Beek talks to Andrew Staton about his journey through martial arts from Taekwondo to Jeet Kune Do

Bruce Lee inspiration

Taekwondo

Wing Chun

Jeet Kune Do

Meeting Ted Wong

Learning JKD

Trapping Hands

Training in USA

Becoming a Full Instructor

Netherlands JKD

JKD Today

Original JKD Understandings/ Misunderstandings


James Ter Beek trains in Holland
Recorded by Dean Meadows of Pentagram Pictures at the Rise of the Dragon event 2023
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