So I’ve been branching out from purely wushu training now and going into san da and tricking/parkour. My roots are of course in wushu, but its totally fun to branch out and practice other styles.

Check out my first tricking compilation where I attempt my first “cork” – which is sort of like a reverse butterfly twist in some ways. Anyways, I got a few tips and bits of advice from Steve Terada and Travis Wong… so just sit back, relax, and enjoy my cork face plant  =P

The gym floor is very forgiving. I was also excited that I pretty much hit the rotation on my 720 butterfly twist, 720 jump outside kick (720 TKBL), 720 jump inside (720 XFJ). I think the tricking stuff will get better as I practice more and get that muscle memory and timing down. =)

Great tricking session!

get lucratif street

I did a photoshoot over the weekend for a street wear company called LUCRATIF STREET. Their motto is “making something out of nothing”. I met and interviewed the owner of this brand through Pacific Rim Video. It was a very laid back shoot. I actually taught some dancers some wushu right before the shoot. I will post the video soon! But anyways, the shoot was fun and that grey jacket I’m wearing is quite comfortable. I like the material it’s made out of. Here’s some more of the pics. You can also find them on their blog: http://getlucratif.wordpress.com/

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New Boyz get lucratif for their single "Tie Me Down" feat Ray J

sparring

I spent 6 hours at the gym today. I worked on some business. Everything feels right.

I took care of some business at the bank at noon.  David sold his business PokerBling which I was a partner (very small percentage of equity) in.. so we cashed out. I met up with him the day before and we caught up and discussed some business of course and then he cut me a check for my investment in PokerBling. I like catching up with David because he’s always chill and at the same time so passionate about making an impact on the world in his own fun loving way. (He is also one of the founders of Nom Nom Truck – a popular food truck in LA) Overall, I think everything worked out because we are both so busy with other projects that it was the right time to sell and focus on our other projects. We have another project in the work so I’ll still be working on some crazy things with David. Anyways, I used part of the money I got back for some inventory orders for wushukicks and for some home repairs.

Then I got crazy at the gym. Met up with sparring partner J Yee. We did a ton of drills. Today’s focus was on leg kicks, timing, defending against kicks, side kicks, combo kicks, 1 2 3 combo, lead leg round followed by cross, and reach/distance. After that we did some lifting where we maxed out on chest and shoulders. I was exhausted at this point, but there was more work to be done. I had previously spoken to a franchise owner within LA fitness and discussed some martial arts products and health products that they could sell in their display and they liked the idea so today we finalized some paper work and got some products for sale in LA Fitness! =) After a little business got done, I got my second wind! My former coworker, accountant by day female future mma star Leah rolled by to do some training. I designed a workout plan that is a mega wushu program. It combines cardio with taolu wushu techniques with sparring, kickboxing, and conditioning. It’s designed to be pretty intense and get you very in shape. I worked out again and we hit the bags for quite some time along with doing a few drils. Today’s focus was on some basic kicks, stance work, and improving conditioning.

…and that was how I ended up at the gym from 3:30pm to 10pm (30 min was spent talking so I didnt count that as part of my “6″ hour gym day).

Overall, I’m feeling really good about what I’m doing. I am getting my businesses very financially organized so that it’s not just some makeshift operation, but a clean corporate entity. I am working out more than ever before and I am so refreshed doing it because san shou has so many cool techniques and moves to learn. Sparring is so dynamic that no session is ever the same. I am getting something done every day and that feels great, but yet I feel like there is so much on my plate still. David and Hue are going to the Winter Olympics in Vancouver in a few weeks. At first I thought I would be a hermit, but the more I think about it.. if I get a TON of stuff done before they go, I may plan to go with them and stay for a day or two just to have gone to check out the Olympics. I will be playing it by ear. Alright, time for me to sleep. Night!

Hey wsup yall! It’s Alfred Hsing with Pacific Rim Videooooo! Haha, that’s my intro to this video / blog session.

I recently connected with Pacific Rim Video - an online channel that promotes asian and latino artists in entertainment, fashion, and that whole industry.. Let me give you guys the story on how we all met in the first place.

I was performing for Jackie Chan at The Spy Next Door demo and then one of the correspondents was there interviewing Jackie, Billy Ray Cyrus, George Lopez, etc at the red carpet. Then a day later after the event I was browsing some videos online and came across their channel.. and long story short we realized we were both at the same event and they thought it would be cool to do an interview with me. I said yes and then… here’s what happened..

Watch!

I gave a little shout out to CMAT the “Cal Martial Arts Tournament” which is probably the US’s largest wushu tournament in terms of numbers of attendees and the scale of the organization. Aside from the official US National Wushu Team Trials, the CMAT tournament probably has the highest caliber wushu athletes overall. As for the entire interview- correspondent Angelica Alumia who used to work for MTV was too cool and fun to get along with that I couldn’t resist joining on board as a correspondent. It just so happened we ended up doing a couple of other interviews that day.

…one of which was totally unexpected – Singer T Lopez came in to the office building we were at to meet up a fashion designer Delise Ana who was giving her a fitting for her dress that she is going (or currently wearing this second) at the Grammy Awards. A quick little background on Cash Money Records Artist T Lopez – She says she is a latino influenced pop singer. She is coming out with an album that’s got T-Pain, Lil Wayne, Colby O, and many other artists featured on her tracks. She was pretty cool because we asked her to sing on the spot and she just busted out into song straight up… and when she hit those high notes.. anyways check it out for yourself.

Here is Delise Ana talking about her fashion spread magazine and her thoughts on her inspiration for her dresses that will be seen at the Grammy’s.

another version of my comp card. i made this one for fun

Lately I’ve just been settling back down in LA, catching up with a few friends, and mainly working on the biz side of life. Here’s what I’ve been up to the past 3 days.

Business
I finished incorporating my business, setting up a merchant account, getting a federal tax ID number for the corporation aka EIN, transferring all biz related payments from my sole prop acct to my new biz acct, applying for a business credit card to be used only for business – this way I will be able to keep clear track of spending, getting quickbooks for accounting, organizing recent orders and making new bulk orders, following up with clients, finishing up some marketing materials, creating additional business cards, working out a pricing sheet/sales forms, confirming site redesign layout, following up on packaging price quote, and talking with a franchise owner in LA Fitness.

Martial Arts
Been training about 4 times a week. I train san da once or twice a week – I got some 16 oz gloves and been working on the bags as well as doing other kicks (non standard wushu kicks), pure wushu once a week, and gym/lifting or possibly tricking once a week. It averages out to about 4 times a week. I’m going to start training people again for private lessons. Don’t want to make it a full time thing so probably will accept a max of 3 students for now, but it’s something I enjoy and it’s a good to get a little income as well. I created a lesson plan involving cardio, fitness, conditioning, wushu, kick boxing, pad work, and partner training.

I plan to keep 4 days a week of training if not more because it’s just so fun. Also, this UFC gym opened up near my place, so I might check it out. It would be good to work on some brazilian jiu-jitsu as well. Did I mention I joined LA Fitness? I’ve been meaning to go swimming there. The pool looks very clean and inviting, but so far I’ve mainly just got around to using their bags and weight machines.

Entertainment
I did a demo for LA Wushu / Coach Tim Storms at LAFA’s Annual Food Fights event. It was at the Diavolo Dance space in downtown. It was a fun charity event that featured a bunch of the stunt/fight groups in town and we all gathered and put on a show to raise food for those without. That was fun and got to see some buddies from The History Channel Art of War project. I also re-realized how much I freakin love performing and doing demos. It was an event for a good cause and I just overall had a good time / felt good afterward. =)

I am supposed to call back an editor from Inside Kung Fu tomorrow so we will see how that goes. I hope something works out with them because when I was in high school I remember reading their magazine and to be in it, would be awesome. Then there’s this Pacific Rim online press that covers a variety of celebrity and entertainment news. I may be doing an interview with them next week or the following week.

Aside from that, I made a comp card (which I am still working on), I majorly cleaned up my film resume, I submitted to a few productions, and I am having headshots professionally printed this week to attach with my resume.

Misc
Getting some house work done. I’ve been cleaning the house like mad and I cleaned my room. I’ve also brought in a contractor to help redo/fix the front patio area but its been raining so its really messing things up. This is something I’ve really been needing to do. Hopefully I wont have to do anymore renovations/repairs for a while.

To Do
Set up virtual terminal / payment processing
Repair/replace cell phone
Recycle bottles
Revamp website

alfred comp card

I’ve been working on a comp card and updating my theatrical resume today because I’ve been meaning to send out my demo reel along with my CV to some places. The above is still a work in progress, but thought I would post something up for now and continue to work on it.

Also I been playing the new police story trailer over and over because I like the September Storm song Jackie Chan sings.

Okay, I am off to a wushu demo in downtown. Ciao!

The Contender Asia

Haha, just kiddin! I am not going to try to get into any sort of professional fighting… haha, but lately since I got back to the the states, I have been doing a good bit of mma / san shou training. In general been working out pretty intensely. I am going to be honest. I love love love wushu but while training and preparing for US Team Trials and for the World Wushu Championships, there was an indescribable pressure. I don’t really know where this pressure came from, because everyone was very supportive and positive, but it’s sort of a weight you put on yourself and a weight of high expectations from those around you. So anyways, point is that pressure combined with the fact that I trained the same 3 forms for roughly 2 years straight made me dread practicing.

Now that I have done what I set out to do, it’s like I have opened the doors and allowed myself to move on to the next level. I have a renewed passion for training and martial arts lately because I am now focusing on other styles and areas of martial arts that I previously held back from!

I’ve been training san shou with former US Wushu Team member Jason Yee. He is awesome! He is the only guy to do both taolu AND san shou at a world championships, he brought home the US’s first medal (bronze in sanshou), and went on to fight Cung Le on pay per view. (Check out his clip – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laeghrc6ibE)

So since I’ve gotten back to LA I have been doing a bunch of various martial arts training: sparring drills, bag work, acrobatics, wushu forms, workin on a drunken hand form, fight choreo, and weight training.

Again, the whole contender asia and UFC is just me messing around, but I am having a good time learning san shou and boxing techniques.

Now as for everything else – I have been gone from my home in LA for a good 3 months now and I had a TON of misc things to take care of when I got back from catching up on 3 months of mail, paying bills, cleaning the house, unpacking, restocking, processing orders on my businesses, organizing my personal and business finances, to meetings with friends and biz partners.. lots to catch up on!

My To Do List For This Week

1) Get Quickbooks / Finish sorting biz finances
2) Mail out Demo Reels
3) Call contractor to fix patio

• If you love Jackie Chan you HAVE to watch this! – My JC adventures http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6nP-AoDriI #jackiechan #thespynextdoor #
• driving back to LA now! #

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Here is my Adventures with Jackie Chan video blog. My video blog shows my thoughts the day I am meeting Jackie Chan, our actual encounter, and my thoughts afterward.

Later that evening I flew straight back to the bay area and did another demo. Here is my brother and I working on some fight choreography that was incorporated in the performance.