- Was a lifelong martial artist and prolific writer of martial arts books, numbering some 25 books in print.
- Led an active martial arts career. He instructed U.S. military instructors; devised law enforcement self-defense courses; created fight scenes for film studios, and for a time, operated his own martial arts dojo in Hollywood, California between 1952 and 1967.
- His parents were themselves professional adherents of judo and jujutsu. At age 2, he began his martial arts training under his parents, a curriculum that would last his lifetime. Over his lifetime, he studied judo, jujutsu, aikido, karate, Japanese sword and stick fighting, Savate (French foot and fist fighting), tai chi, and other Chinese kung fu forms.
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