Don Wilson on the Art of Kickboxing, Martial Arts Kid 2

I’m Don the dragon Wilson bullying we’re kicking it. We’re standing alongside Martial arts and acting legend Don the dragon Wilson here at the action Martial arts Hall of Fame mr. Wilson. Has your weekend, treating you great. You know, I’ve had a lot of fun I’ve met a lot of new people and of course, it’s always great to see all my friends. Before we were starting the new year together before the year 2019 starts and you’re looking great these days, I believe you were just doing a seminar how that I’ll go very good III taught self-defense because even though I’m known to be a kickboxer what I basically teaches the things I learned as a kickboxer that all Martial artists can incorporate in their self-defense and what is that where are some basics because I feel like when you’re just a regular civilian you might say, oh my god.

Like I’m not an expert, you know, where do I go – I choose karate. They choose Kickboxing. Is there kind of some basic skills that all forms of Martial arts can be taught, you know, I think that the basic Martial arts are they’re pretty similar, you know, they teach power and punches power and kicks and things. It’s kind of a similar way and they just have different ways. They call them styles different styles of getting there. So, I think they all have value and you know, Bruce Lee used to say I’m big Bruce Lee fan. He’s to say I’m all styles no style, which means he studies as many as he can, but he’s bound by not one like if one says.

Oh, we don’t do our punches that way, but he likes doing it that way. He will do it that way because it’s his own personal style. And I kind of followed his footsteps now we’re here on behalf of Allan Goldberg’s bullion. We’re kicking at charity, which is fantastic work here. He talked a little bit about Martial arts has positively impacted you and the kids that you’ve helped? Well, certainly it’s infected because the changes became my whole life. I mean, I took it just for exercise really I was an athlete. I played football basketball at the time I was in the Coast Guard Academy and I took did you go, Jew from Chuck Merriman who’s my first instructor and I was because it was offered at the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London Connecticut and then when I left that after a year because I wasn’t really satisfied for the military lifestyle.

So I went back to Florida. And I took kung-fu for my brother and I got my black mounted pylon kungfu and then from there in 1974. I started Kickboxing and I had my first pro fight in 74 and I end up fighting for till 2002, which was 28 years I’ve fought as a kickboxer the movie thing came later in a Chuck Norris. Actually I got to credit him for giving me the idea to move to LA and tried to be an actor because Chuck used to go to my fights and he suggested it to me. Definitely a good friend to have in one way or another now you we talked last year about you were funding the Martial arts kids who the Martial arts kid was a very successful independent film.

Do you have an update for us? Well, the script is completed and they’ve got enough funding if they wanted to shoot it in LA. They probably could shoot. It really quickly in LA, but my brother likes going on location. He’s done two films in Florida. And I believe he had a very good experience shooting in st Peterburg st Petersburg Tampa and he wants to relocate it to there and because of that. I think it’s gonna be a bigger budget, it’s gonna have a lot more action and of course, you know, a lot more summer short stars than the last one. Well, we’re certainly looking forward to that.

Before we let you go, sir, where can fans find you online? Well, I’m on Facebook, you know, although I don’t manage the Twitter and the all those other kind of feeds. I do keep on track on Don Wilson and the picture is me holding a microphone like this. And so, you’ll know it’s not a fan one or some fake one. It’s actually mine. It’s got my face and I was at a film festival actually in Burbank and I took the picture. I said, yeah. Yeah, that would be my picture.