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
Japanese martial arts in other schools it is practiced as a sport. literally means "empty hand". It is also sometimes called . Karate originated in and, is technically, Okinawan, formerly known as the Ryūkyū Kingdom, but now a part of present-day Japan. Karate is a fusion of pre-existing Okinawan martial arts, called ""te"", and Chinese martial arts. It is an art that has been adopted and developed by practitioners on the Japanese main island of Honshu. Karate's route to Honshu began with Gichin Funakoshi (船越 義珍 "Funakoshi Gichin", 1868–1957), who is called the father of karate, and is the founder of Shotokan karate.