Martial Law (1998-2000)

[cranefly]

Tracked down my Louis Mandylor memory.  Major clue found in an old email exchange dating back to Jan. 9, 2006:

Gene Ching <gene@kungfumagazine.com>
To:gshockley@yahoo.com

Fri, Feb 3, 2006 at 11:00 AM

Got it.  Thanks.  And you're totally right about being HUNG.  I'm
surprised Craig missed that.

I'll let Louis know to watch out for ya...

At 12:31 AM 2/3/2006, you wrote:
>Hi Gene.
>
>Well, that's certainly a revelation.
>I hope he doesn't totally screw up his shins.
>I thought I read somewhere (in Kung Fu Tai Chi?)
>how some guy trained like that and later in life
>his shins turned black and he died soon after.
>
>Then again, what do I know?
>
>One thing I know.  I could take Mandylor.  What
>a puny excuse for a man.
>
>The mag needs a section for posting challenges.
>
>--gary
>
>P.S. I changed Sammo's last name from Hong to Hung.
>I realize he was born Hong, but most people know
>him as Hung, right?
>
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In case you're asking, I never delete emails.  It's a laziness thing.

So I tracked down two Craig Reid Martial Law-related pieces on KungFuMazine.com.  One is an ezine article ("What Happened to Martial Law?") here:
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/ezine/arti...rticle=216

The other is in the May/June 2006 print issue here:
http://www.kungfumagazine.com/magazine/a...rticle=650

The title (a bit messed up on that page) is: "A Piece of Wong Fei Hong Hits Hollywood: Louis Mandylor and Huang Jia Quan"

Craig actually visited Mandylor's residence to interview him there.  I recall the craziness of what transpired.  Here's the opening:

Driving up the winding roads of Hollywood Hills, you begin hearing this eerie, arrhythmic, deep toned chime music clanging through the air.  Minutes later I learn that it's not somebody's stereo gone awry but the sound of Louis Mandylor working out on a 1400 pound, solid iron, wing chun dummy.  However, instead of having a few wimpy wooden sticks representing arms, Louis is whacking away on 6 iron arms attached to what appears to be sawed truck suspension springs that are imbedded into a 2-foot diameter solid iron body.  So as you enter his backyard pool area, and without sounding vulgar or rude, the first question that comes to mind is, "What the hell is that?"