"The story of the legendary martial arts fighter and kickboxer Oum
Ry is by turns pulse-pounding, disturbing, and powerful. His is an
astonishing life told beautifully by his daughter Zochada Tat and
Addi Somekh. The book will grip you from its first pages and not
let you go." -Jeff Chang, author of Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee
and the Making of Asian America and Can't Stop Won't Stop: A
History of the Hip-Hop Generation Oum Ry (b.1944) is a former
international champion kickboxer who first brought the Cambodian
martial art Pradal Serey to the United States. When his family of
silver engravers couldn't afford his food or schooling, he lived
with monks until seeking out Pradal Serey masters, soon becoming
national champion at 23 years old and one of the most famous
fighters in the region. For 15 years, he toured Southeast Asia, and
without ever suffering a knock-out, won more than 250 fights. After
a young man's dream-life of stardom, parties, and girls, his new
wife gave birth to a child in 1975, two months before the Khmer
Rouge entered Phnom Penh and threw the country into the chaos of
civil war, where starvation, disease, and mass executions were
common. Oum Ry survived the genocide though much of his family
perished. He was saved many times from death in Cambodia due to
fame, talent, and his resilience, but suffered a life-threatening
attack during Southern California's epic gang violence of the
1990s. Earlier, as a refugee with his young family in Chicago, Oum
Ry learned English while working cleaning hotels. But within a few
years, he had an investor in Long Beach, California and opened one
of the first kickboxing gyms in the United States. This is Oum Ry's
life story, which is propelled by his highly anticipated return to
Cambodia in February 2022 to reunite with family and to pass on
Pradal Serey traditions to the next generation.
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