My parents worried about my health because I trained so
hard, I would suffer from a stroke. My neighbors had
complaints about the noise coming from our house,
and in my street their was no branch of a three under the
level of 30cm above my head because I all kicked them.
In 1990 I became Dutch Champion Karate.

After seeing van Damme in 1997 I focused on kicking and
tried to kick as high as possible while being as flexible
as possible.

I got the record highest kick in 1997 with a height of
11 feet. There was a contest in Holland about empty hand
Karate forms. I made my of form and went to the competition.
I was the only one who made a new form and there were
no contestants at all. I was send home but I could show
it on their next event ‘ The European Championships Karate’.
I was the first who ever did this in Holland and It was a big
success
.
I started to give demonstrations and events and with my
karate partner ‘Daan Broekman’. We made ‘movie fights’
to complete the demo. We started to appear in TV
programs and video clips.

I heard about Jackie Chan shooting a movie called
‘Who am I ?’ in Rotterdam and he needed 1000 extra’s.
Even to become an extra was very hard on this movie
because there were so many reactions, but I kept calling
the casting office till they got crazy and finally I got a small
part as business man. ( You can actually see this )

I was on the set of the movie and had 3 shooting days.
I knew this was my chance. I asked the Dutch Stunt
team if I could do some fighting but they laughed so hard
in front of everybody that I felt ashamed. ‘If I could jump
from a building then I could join’.

So I went to Jackie’s team but everybody was so busy.
I felt like air for them.But one old man from JC’ s team
said I had to make a tape and give it to him. So I made
a tape in the night and finished early in the morning and
gave it to the old man.I just changed to my business suit
while one of Jackie’s assistants called me to see Jackie.
I couldn’t believe it. I had to do a screen test.

Jackie said I was the best of 20 guys doing audition for
this role.But I asked myself ‘What role?’.

It was a role for the final fight in his movie. (1997)

The Dutch Stuntteam also went mad because first they
laughed at me and now I got the best fighting part in the
movie. So before the shootings some of them tried to
spar with me and share ‘low kicks’. One day when I was
15 minutes late one of them was wearing my suit so
maybe he could get the part.

Even after giving so much martial art demonstrations and
training so hard, working with Jackie is very demanding
Jackie has so much experience if he repeats a new fight
scene he got it in 3 rehearsals. That’s what I had to do to.

Just one time slow rehearsal, faster and fastest.
And these were combinations with+- 5 to 8 moves. I also
had to follow a certain pattern on the floor and was not
allowed to touch Jackie hard .Jackie made me very
insecure at this moment because he was not so friendly
and quite rude and didn’t want to talk with me.

Jackie called a stuntman to do some kicks even without me
trying to do it, so he doubled me. It’s just a small part,
but in ‘Jackie Chan my stunts’ he wants to show that his
stunt team is better than anybody else and this guy who
only did a small part ‘Brad allen’ got the credits. Very unfair
because I did 95% of this fight myself and the kicks Brad
Aallen did were easy to do for me as well. And Jackie
has 4 stunt doubles but nobody ever tells about that or
shows that in ‘My Stunts’. Below one of Jackie’s stunt
doubles ‘Sam Wong’

The fight in ‘Who am I ?’ got a Hong kong Oscar for the
best fight scene (1998). But I had to start all over again
with my career. A lot of broken promises from Hong Kong
producers, fake managers etc…. Jackie Chan my stunts.
Waiting in Holland is like dying slowly so I had to do
something… In 2000 I was invited to go to Hong Kong
and Played in 5 Hong Kong action movies and gained
more experience in movie fighting and acting.