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I started playing martial arts in 1972, with northern shaolin in Victoria. Right away I knew that I would spend the rest of my life playing kungfu. I transferred to the University of British Columbia in Vancouver to learn Chinese, and was lucky to train MyJongLawHorn with Alex Kwok while I was in Vancouver. This ended up being quite some time, since I did a Bachelor of Physical Education after my B.A. in Chinese - I had decided that I would win a scholarship to China, and that I would be accepted at the Beijing College of Physical Education, the best in the country.
Oddly enough, I did win the scholarship and I was accepted, arriving in 1980. I spent three years there with Xia Bohua as my main coach, during which time I discovered how hard it is possible to train. In the spring of 1981, at a national competition I saw a girl about 5 feet tall play with a sabre about 5 feet tall. What is that? I asked teacher Xia. Bagua, he said. That was it for me - I had to learn bagua. About the same time I also discovered Chen taiji and xingyi, and this was when I transformed into an internal stylist, though I still learned the whole wushu syllabus at the college.
When I graduated I was invited to Montreal to interpret for Niu Huailu, coach of the Shandong team, so was able to continue my studies with top coaching for another couple of years, as well as returning to Beijing to train for the summers of 1984 and 1986. I was the only non-Asian gold medalist at the International Taijiquan Invitational Competition in Wuhan, China, in 1985, performing the 48 move combined taijiquan. I was a member of the 1986 Canadian Wushu team, performing (badly) Chen taijiquan and xingyi in Tianjin. In 1988 I went back to UBC for a Master of Physical Education.
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