In 1981, after studying Martial Arts for 20 years I experienced something that changed my life forever. While visiting a class conducted by 81-year-old Professor Yu, a well-known Qi Gong master, I was asked to participate in a demonstration. Professor Yu wanted me to push him over. I hesitated, not wanting to hurt the older man. But as I began to push him, I found myself flying back 5 feet and landing on my behind. Professor Yu told me to take a running start this time. I ran hard towards him, but halfway there, Master Yu knocked me back again, without physically touching me in any way. Professor Yu had used his Ch'i or energy force to move me. I realized then that, while I knew about the external "martial" part of Martial Arts, I really wanted to learn about the internal "art" part. And my philosophy of "seeing is believing" changed to "feeling is believing."

In 1974, I founded the Tiger Eye Claw Center, now one of Santa Clara Valley's oldest Martial Arts schools. For many years, I taught evening and weekend classes while I worked full time as a Program Manager at FMC — a defense contractor. In January 1992, I accepted an early retirement package from FMC and began offering weekday classes. I wanted to make myself more available to the community and provide a service.

I began also traveling more around the country conducting seminars and workshops on Tibetan T'ai Ch'i and Meditation, Healing Arts and Energy balancing, Kung-fu, Anger Release and more. So next I founded the Tibetan Arts - Martial & Healing Center and TiAiKi Tibetan Arts. I am the Senior Advisor to the International Wun Hop Kuen Do, Al Dacascos Academy.