ART CAMACHO INTERVIEW ON THE SETS OF STEVEN SEAGAL'S MOVIE

...Nowadays, Camacho spends most of his time training and prepping action stars for their big scenes. Among his star pupils Cynthia Rothrock, Benny Urquidez, Michael Dudikoff, Don The Dragon Wilson and Gary Daniels.

Camacho says training in the martial arts has lead to a varied career. I am currently a film director/Producer. However I came to be known all around as a fight/action choreographer. I began working in films in the late 80's. First off as an actor and being a martial artist I gravitated towards action films and then found myself being asked to choreograph screen fights. It came kind of easy because I was a big fan of the genre and I had an eye for the dramatic. I studied Bruce Lee films and almost anything that came out of Hong Kong and kind of evolved into my own style. I was really fascinated at what Bruce Lee did in his films because if you look at them, they are so simple yet so dynamic. That's what really helped me immensely because he wasn't really fighting on screen, but dancing to music. That to me is the key to great fight choreography. You have to have rhythm and then break it up. It has to ebb and flow and then at the final moment it must climax and then have a brief anticlimax so the viewer can be "in" the moment along with the star. On top of that I always had an extreme work ethic. I hate wasting time and thanks to that I became very fast at putting together and shooting fight action. I mean if you look at most films in a cinema, they take about two weeks to rehearse and plan and shoot the fight action, whereas I rarely had that luxury. Most times I'd be given only an hour or two to choreograph, rehearse, train the actor and shoot the action!!! So I had to be not only good at my craft but also fast.

Camacho is good friends with both Don The Dragon Wilson and Gary Daniels, and has not only taught them but also directed them in pictures. . He (Don) and I not only became good friends but we have the same ideas regarding fight action and I was able to help him go to a different level in regards to his on screen fight persona. Being always influenced by Bruce Lee I always strive to reach that level of realism and excitement. I also worked on many of the Blood fist films., explains Camacho. Daniels is also a treasured co-worker. There's one word to describe him and that's "Incredible". Gary is a very gifted martial artist who's always exploring his own potential. Working with him was also like being a traffic cop because as a martial arts action star, he has a really strong sense of what he wants to project and I more or less sit back and pick and choose. He's also a very humble person. I worked with him a couple of times and it was great.

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