Trung Ly Trung Ly Trung Ly (born 1975) is a Vietnamese martial artist, fight choreographer and action director. He is known as the fight choreographer for Roger Corman's martial arts movie "Fist of the Dragon", the ABC TV series kung fu comedy "Maximum Choppage" and recently as an action director on Vietnamese police film "Tracer". Ly was born in 1975 in Saigon, Vietnam. Both his parents fled the country and migrated to Sydney, Australia. Trung Ly arrived in Australia in 1980 and grew up in the suburbs of Sydney. Trung Ly started learning martial arts in 1984, Vovinam and Shaolin Kung Fu
Sambo (martial art) Sambo (martial art) Sambo (; ) is a Russian martial art and combat sport. It originated in the Russian SFSR in Soviet Union. The word "SAMBO" is an acronym for "samozashchita bez oruzhiya", which literally translates as "self-defence without weapons". Sambo is relatively modern, since its development began in the early 1920s by the Soviet Red Army to improve their hand-to-hand combat abilities. It was intended to be a merger of the most effective techniques of other martial arts. The pioneers of sambo were Viktor Spiridonov and Vasili Oshchepkov. Oshchepkov died in prison as a result of the Great Purge