Tan tao liang biography for kids

  • Tan Tao-liang is a Chinese-South Korean martial artist and former film actor.
  • Biography ; Born in Korea, Tan Tao Liang posesses amazing agility in his kicks.
  • Tan Tao Liang aka Flashlegs Tan, aka Dorian Tan was born in Busan South Korea in His martial arts training started at the age of 7.

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    Tan Tao Liang aka Flashlegs Tan, aka Dorian Tan was born in Busan South Korea in His martial arts training started at the age of 7, studying a mixture of Taekwondo, Judo, Hapkido & Kung Fu. Although it was with Taekwondo he preferred to stay, because of it's full contact sparring & competition aspects. A move with seen him win many competitions & even a world title. At the age of 23, he began teaching his art at the National Taiwan University, it was at this time he met & trained future superkicker John Liu. In he was approached to star in the growing kung fu movie genre that had seen a massive boost in popularity thanks to Bruce Lee & his films, in particular Enter the Dragon which was now receiving international attention. In he was asked to star alongside a young Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung & Yuen Biao in the John Woo classic Hand of Death. He retired from the industry in to relocate to Monterey California to open a school & resume his teaching. Howeve

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    Tan Tao-liang

    Chinese-South Korean martial artist and former film actor

    Tan Tao-liang (Chinese: 譚道良; Tan Dao-liang; born 22 December ) is a Chinese-South Korean martial artist and former film actor. He used numerous pseudonyms throughout his career, mostly Delon Tam, Dorian Tan Tao-liang, Tan Tao-liang, Delon Tan, Dorian Tan and Delon Tanner. Noted for his leg holding and hopping skills, Tan was nicknamed "Flash Legs".

    In his later life, Tan taught martial arts, notably to Yuen Biao, Ke Huy Quan of The Goonies, and Shannon Lee, daughter of the late Bruce Lee.

    Early life

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    Tan was born on December 22, , in Busan, South Korea. He is a Chinese Korean[clarification needed], aka hwagyo, whose parents fled mainland China after the Second Sino-Japanese War broke out. At age 7, Tan began studying martial arts including taekwondo, judo, hapkido and kung fu. Of these styles, he favored taekwondo as it "allowed full-contact sparring and competit

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    Dorian Tan: They Call Him Flash Legs!

    Recently inom found myself missing some of the old-skool monark fu movies I haven't watched for many years! When inom revisit these holy grails of martial artistry, a long-time favourite star would have to be Dorian Tan Tao-Liang. Throughout his many spelfilm titles during the s and early s, he continually demonstrated excellent screen fighting skills and his trademark, otherworldly kicking abilities, earning him the nickname "Flash Legs".

    Tan's history fryst vatten quite interesting as well. Although being of kinesisk descent, he was born and raised in Korea and at the age of sju, began training in the national art of Taekwondo. He subsequently demonstarted a great aptitude for the sport and won countless national competitions, earning recognition as a true force to be reckoned with. While developing his now-famous leg dexterity, he also mastered his signature "hop", whereby he would hop towards opponents while demolishing them with lightning fast, agile