[3] He started training in judo in 1953 and would become a national champ by the year 1956 under Cu Ton.
This was under Nam Tae Hi who was a Korean military instructor as part of the initial group of officers in the South Vietnamese Army.
He would establish 9 schools of martial arts in Vietnam and teach over 60,000 students before the Fall of Saigon in 1975.
[2] He would later earn a 9th degree blackbelt in Taekwondo,[2] and operates a school with his family in Houston Texas teaching Taekwon-do, Judo, Aikido and Tai Chi.
[5] He is the President of ITF-USA[6] and has supported the younger generation of Taekwon-do instructors in Texas and across the United States through seminars,[7] examinations,[8] administrative advice and continued leadership.