[1][2] Maslak authored two books, Strategy in Unarmed Combat [3] and What The Masters Know,[4] based on a statistical study he undertook of contrasting fighting styles in professional boxing, full-contact karate (early kickboxing), Japanese kick-boxing, Judo and collegiate wrestling.
With the help of colleague John Corcoran, a former PKA events coordinator and then editor of KICK Illustrated magazine, he expanded the STAR ratings into professional kickboxing in response to the organizational partisanship of the contender rankings generated by the sport's major sanctioning bodies.
[1] While working for The Walt Disney Company as a project planner on EPCOT and Tokyo Disneyland, Maslak took an evening job as editor of Inside Kung Fu magazine.
In this latter capacity, he was invited by Jackie Chan producer Ng See-yuen to work as casting director on the martial arts film, No Retreat, No Surrender, for which he helped "discover" Jean-Claude Van Damme, Kurt McKinney, Ernie Reyes, Jr. and Cynthia Rothrock.
[7][8] Afterwards, Maslak pursued a two-track career for several years, working as a manufacturing production control executive in corporate America by day, and free-lancing as a story analyst for HBO and TriStar Pictures by night.
In total, Maslak produced 12 motion pictures including: The Right Temptation with Kiefer Sutherland, Primary Suspect with William Baldwin and Kiss Toledo Goodbye with Christopher Walken.