Well lets see where do I start...
Well I've been living in Los Angeles all my life. Just with mom and her side of the family. For the longest I remember thinking I didn't have a dad. I thought ladies just had babies for no reason what so ever. And that no matter what race you were your baby could be anything. I figured I was white and my mom was black hahahaha. Doesnt have anything to do with anything, just thought it was interesting.
Grew up with lots of Nintendo and a lot of Sonic. Honestly video games made me what I am today, personality wise. I always wanted to go on adventures like Mario and Sonic. Then Donkey Kong Country inspired me to move like an animal. I practiced for years and years from second grade til the end of high school running on my hands and feet. Always made fun of, but it was worth it. It used to be simple monkey like running, but now I can run like leapord! Remember night crawler in x-men 2? or Creed in x-men origins? I can run like that without wires! Then movies like Lord of the rings and Golem got me thinking "I could do that!" But it just seemed way to out of reach. Friends in high school told me when I was in 9th grade :Hey matt they are hiring for spider-men at universal studios!" I could never get excited cause it was just to big a thing for a simple South LA kid.
I hated sports! well to be on a team. I can't throw a football, I can't dribble a basket ball... yeah I know, black guy with no sport talent. Hahahha. But I did like martial arts, but nothing ever really got me thinking "yeah thats for me!"
Then Soul Calibur 2 was announced with Link! I got the game and Yun Sung, Kilik, Suang Wa, all inspired me to do martial arts. they all do wushu! and around that time I decided I wasn't going to college, and I would attempt to be an actor. I needed any job though around this time, so I went to universal and they hired me very quickly. I was taking care of the characters! With in a year I was the character and doubled my wages! Yahoo! within the next year I was spider-man and tripled my earnings yeeehaaa! Let me tell you guys, being spider-man is under worked and over paid! Everyone loves you! more break time than work time. All the employees treat you like royalty and never under 7 hours a day! Within that time I got waay to comfortable, I was at the top of the roster, so I could pick and choose my days, but I knew I didnt want to be there for ever, and I was gonna have to start auditioning and really getting out there.
Another Spider-Man introduced me to wushu. My teachers Eric and Debbie Chen are amazing! Debbie used to live and train with Jet Li! Coach Eric had Wu Bin live at our school for a while. Wu Bin is Jet Li's only teacher, and he was there teaching me! Thats where things started to unravel. But all my parts here and there have mostly been small, nothing big yet. But I just got a new agent and I am very excited for the future! Now I teach exclusively as my day job, and I absolutely love it! From super old to super young, I feel like I have something to offer you know? And i've learned so many super zany things over the years.
Remember how Kilik in SC could climb on top of his staff?! I can do that! like a hand stand on top of the stick but your kicking super high?! Thats called monkey staff! and becuase of Donkey Kong games Monkey has been my favorite style as seen in the picture. I'm not very good at it yet, hahaha.
Throughout the years on these forums I would spill little things about my life, but not much. You guys intimidated me allot. Hahahah. After Metroid Prime 2 came out, I posted that I was trained in motion capture by the lady who did Samus Arans Motion capture in Prime 1. Not sure if anyone remembers, it was years ago. I never told of the time Jacky Chan walks into the school and I was teaching a huge class, of maybe 20-30 people! His assistant was taking pictures and I was like Holy Barnicles! And then he put up a picture of me on his website Jackychan.com sadly it was just the back of me training the classes, hahaha.
I watch allot of cartoons, probably more than live action tv, and mostly comedy. It used to piss of my coworkers allot, since we had tvs and such. It was fairly odd parents and spongebob every day. They always thought I was high because of that, and I never curse, so they thought that was odd to. I say barnicles isntead of the D word, or blasted! I just think its funnier.
And because I was always a nintendo guy I was always in some heated argument with people all my video gaming life. People like Mario, EasyCure, Pale, Iansane, GoldenPhoenix, the list could go on, these guys I would quote left and right on the school yard. If I left you out trust me I quoted you to. When I would get into arguments, I always sounded the most intelegent, no one could beat me, because I would never have a completely biased attitude, and my video game jargon just shut people down!
Man i'm just jumping from all kinds of subjects. If you read it thanks, I know its probably too much hahaha.
But thats a bit about me. Oh yeah, I discovered my dad 2 years ago, man was it a tear jerker. And I went on several adventures that involved chasing down criminals and retrieving stolen goods! When I say that video games inspired my life, I seriously mean it. Sure I'll get killed some day because I wanted to triple jump like mario off a roof top(and i've done it before!) but hey i'm a tough chicken!
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