About

STUNT FIGHTING

PATRICK VUONG is a stuntman specializing in fights, hits & reactions, and martial arts combat (both hand-to-hand and weapons).

With two black belts in kung fu and kenpo karate and more than 14 years of martial arts training in more than half a dozen styles, he combines diverse real-life martial knowledge with on-camera action experience to deliver versatile fighting aesthetics and skills.

FIGHT CHOREOGRAPHER

Patrick Vuong is also a fight choreographer, who designs every technique, reaction and movement of the actors and stunt fighters in a movie’s action sequence.

In some instances, he has played an even bigger role as action director, which is a term that’s used more often in the Hong Kong movie industry for the person in charge of the stunt crew who not only stages the fight choreography, but also supervises all of the following aspects of a movie’s action sequences:

• stunt coordination
• camera angles and shooting
• editing
  

He’s action directed or co-action directed four short movies, creating fight scenes that are influenced by Hong Kong action legends such as Jackie Chan and Yuen Woo Ping as well as Sammo Hung, Tony Jaa, James Lew, Jeff Imada, John Kreng, and of course Bruce Lee.

He also draws on his experience of choreographing martial arts demonstration and fight skits for live audiences numbering in the hundreds.

WORDSMITHING

When not performing in front of the camera, Patrick Vuong works behind it. He’s an option screenwriter whose also had a screenplay placed as a first-round finalist in the Open Door Contest, a screenwriting competition sponsored by Scr(i)pt Magazine. Go to PatrickVuongDotCom for more information on his screenwriting.

He’s also a film critic for Black Belt (the world’s leading martial arts magazine) and has had his stories and journalism published in various international publications, including Off-Road magazine, Wizard magazine, and The Orange County Register.

He also enjoys snapping pictures as a fairly rookie-ish photographer. Click here to see samples.

ORIGINS

Made with Asian parts, Patrick was forged in Canada and has since been sharpened in the USA — specifically the sunny if harsh honing stone that is Southern California.