Anyway, after doing the dirty work of the series, I had no recognition whatsoever, so I decided to leave; but David, being the star of the show, had a specific weight on the series and he spoke with the Warner managers and told them he wanted me in the series, so they decided to set aside the services of the former choreographer and gave me that responsibility." From that moment, Master Yuen became officially the master of David Carradine: "At first, David Carradine didn't know anything about Kung Fu. Keep in mind that in the beginning of the series, he practically made only judo; but he had good qualities and picked the movements quickly. Furthermore, for a year he had been practicing dancing, so he had good elasticity and coordination, therefore, as the series progressed, he improved significantly. He was very disciplined and had a real interest in learning, although sometimes it was a pain having to wait for him to start... When the series ended, I continued to give him lessons, but now and then, the time from one class to the next was too
long since his professional commitments forced him often to travel not only around the country but also abroad." To palliate that as far as possible, David Carradine introduced Master Kam Yuen in every project in which he participated; among them we must highlight his work as an actor and choreographer, along with Joe Lewis, James Coburn and Sterling Silliphant, in the Bruce Lee's ill-fated project: "The silent flute". In this film he fights with his student. The master recalls... "I participated with some of my students; there were many interesting ideas in the script, however, the result was not good; it was the first time Richard Moore directed a film on Martial Arts, a subject to which he was not accustomed and had no experience, it took him too long to record the scenes ... Also, the fights were not well shot, the angles were not the right ones." That was not the only time in which they both participated in a film, there were others: "David Carradine was always doing whatever possible so that we could
work together; in some of his projects I did odd jobs or collaborations, whilst in others I participated in a more active way, like in the film "Project Eliminator", or the documentary "Zen and Now: A Dinner with David Carradine & Friends". Master Yuen gets excited when he talks about his pupil; it's inevitable to ask him about the actor's death ... "That was a hard shock, really painful... Two days before his death we had been talking, I had given him my address in China so that he could come and visit me at home. David knew my method of Chinese Energetic Medicine and its beneficial effects, he wanted to help me make it known to the world. Unfortunately, that meeting never took place." It was not the first time that Liang Kam Yuen was going through this trance; formerly he had also suffered the loss of another famous pupil, Michael Jackson. For a time, Master Yuen was the teacher of the "Jackson Five": "I instructed the Jackson Five in the Northern Shaolin for five years, of course, when their commitments