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

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