Chow Yun-Fat - does any1 know about his martial arts background?

From the little looking around I done, I can only tell he trained a little, and considers himself as a poor fighter, yet, a little training to those chinese/HK actors is like a couple of black belts in the west (sometimes anyway)...


Anyways, if any1 knows what styles he done, for how long etc, I would be grateful - CHEERS!!! :)

Chow Yun-Fat - does any1 know about his martial arts background?
Actually, Chow Yun Fat was well known in Hongkong more for his role as a gunslinger in cult classic gunfight films than as a martial artist. His famous roles as a Hitman with a conscience in "The K1llers" and as a 'Dirty Harry' type Cop in "Hard Boiled" was what catapulted him to international fame. As far as I know, he doesn't have any background in martial arts and merely perform choreographed fight scenes and uses doubles for the difficult acrobatic scenes. Most Hong Kong actors usually have to perform a martial art scene at one time in their career whether they have a background in it or not since martial arts plays a big part in most Chinese mov1es.
Reply:He trained with Mao tse Dong and Ho chi Min
Reply:As far as I know, he was originally a famous actor for his roles in movies involving gangsters. If I'm correct, he doesn't really have any real martial arts experience, per se. Compared to the likes of Jet Li and Zhang Ziyi (co-actor in Crouching Tiger) he doesn't have any experience at all really.





He is mostly an actor. In Hong Kong, actors usually take on different roles and take on martial arts roles even if they can or cannot perform martial arts in real life. That's pretty much how the scene goes in Hong Kong. If I'm guessing correctly, he's just given a few martial arts roles here and there because of his nationality more than anything else.
Reply:He doesn't have any.


He's just an actor.

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