Grand Master & Five Time Heavyweight Champion
Steve Combs

   I started training in 1966 at Chuck Norris' TangSooDo School in Redondo Beach California under his Black Belt John Natividad. This was my first introduction to martial arts and at that time did not devote a lot of time to it. Then in 1969 I had the oppertunity to enter a Taoist Monastary in Taipei Taiwan and trained under a very famous Grand Master Cheng Man-Ching for almost three years. During this time I studied the ancient Chinese philosophy of Tao and underwent a vigorous training in the Southern Shaolin School of Chi Kung, Wei Kung, Nei Kung and the mental concepts of T'ai Chi Ch'uan.
   Through this training I was taught forms of discipline that helped me develop respect and honor of the true Chinese Martial Arts. I can  remember staying in a small room for three months when I first got there; eating just a bowl of rice and some vegetables every day, it was very hard in the begining but as time passed I became accustom to it. My Grand Master Cheng told me the first day I could leave anytime if I wanted, but if I come out of the room I would have to leave the Monastary. He told me that this was a way to eliminate the western world and be reborn into a new life, a sort of cleansing my spirit, so I stayed and have never regretted it. As time passed, I started to develop into a strong and powerful student from all of the training I received from all of the monks and Master Cheng. I would like to expand on my stay in Taiwan but have given a vow not to reveal this information.
    I then returned to California in the first part of 1971 and tranined with several top instructors personally up to the end of 1972 simultaneously. I trained with Chuck Norris in TangSooDo Karate for eight months at his South Torrance School every day from four in the morning to eight in the morning. Chuck taught me the forms of TangSooDo and his personal fighting techniques during this time. I can remember him putting me through a very rigorous workout every day for those eight months. We often free fight with one another and on occations he would invite his top Black Belts to jion our workout. After I finished training with Chuck we remained friends and stayed in contact until I left Los Angeles in 1973. It was 1978 when I returned to the United States and by that time Chuck was well on his way to becoming famous and was unable to keep in touch with him. In 1993 I contacted him about setting up a "Kick Drugs Out of American" chapter in Saipan and invited him for a visit. He replied, congratulating me on my recent first place heavyweigh division win in Guam and explained that his TV series was very demanding that he could not come.