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One of the first Americans (or so it’s claimed) to train in the martial arts in mainland China, Dennis Brown gave up a promising career as a computer technician at the age of twenty so he could concentrate fully on being a kung-fu instructor.

Following his training in China, he was able to open his own school in the United States, and soon grew so well-known that he was called upon to act in the martial arts’ movies that were being made in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

The Chinese Embassy in Washington DC has made Brown their ‘Official Consultant of Wushu for the People’s Republic of China’ (wushu is Chinese for ‘martial arts’), and in 2000 the magazine Black Belt listed him as being one of the ‘25 Most Influential Martial Artists of the Twentieth Century’.

Brown, meanwhile, continues to emphasise the fact that the martial arts should be a way for people to improve their characters—not just learn how to fight.