Growing up as a middle child in Philadelphia Chinatown was unique and challenging. My dad was a workaholic in a Chinese Restaurant in Philadelphia Chinatown after arriving to the United States as a young man, never having had an opportunity to attend school. My dad enjoyed watching martial arts movies on the Black Belt TV program. He would stress to me that taking care of your health was important and that all the money in the world was not important if you did not have your health. He was not only my father, but he was my best friend. He had instilled in me a desire in martial arts and in medicine. 

While growing up, and after I recovered from an injury due to being jumped in a school yard, my dad enrolled me into the Southern Praying Mantis Kung Fu School under Sifu Gin Foo Mark, of the On Leung Association, then there after into the Hip Sing Association  Hung Gar/ Wing Chun Kung Fu School under an amazing instructor,  Sifu That Lowe . This is where and when my martial arts training exploded, intense training in the evenings, sparring with the waiters late at night, one and one training during weekends with Sifu That Lowe in his 2nd Floor apartment for many years then promoted to assistant instructor. 

I had later informed my Sifu of my desire to go into medicine, he had recommended that I pursue my career in medicine then to return. Unfortunately and sadly Sifu That Lowe became severely  ill and passed away during my medical training,  I thought of my Sifu as a second father. I was left without a martial arts instructor until I was introduced to and trained in Akijutsu and Ninjutsu with an amazing instructor Sensei Richard Wigginton. Subsequently, I was introduced to Professor Ronald Duncan and Sensei Richard Shanahan, also amazingly accomplished in Akijutsu and Ninjutsu.  

Many years later, I met with Sensei Richard Shanahan and his wife, Marie,  to discuss the concept of developing a virtual reality program, an idea Sensei Shanahan had 15 years prior. With great excitement we formed a company, SETVR LLC, and over the next several years managed to produce a VR app which is called SET VR XL Unleashed,  a Self Defense Enhancement Training in Virtual Reality. It is a simulation game platform where one could continue to practice the art of self defense anytime, anywhere, when you want where by a computer generated attacker will attack you suddenly and randomly so one can practice their techniques from their katas and forms on a program of application, to react by reflex to neutralize the attack without hesitation during an adrenaline surge. Metaphor : i.e.  placing your hand on a hot stove and moving reflexively!!  

The program also  allows one to have an open challenge via multiplayer whereby you can challenge your friends or colleagues many miles away or different parts of the world in real time and to be able to speak with each other during the open challenge event. 

The app has also introduced the History Portal platform in Virtual Reality for the Sports Karate Museum whereby Professor Gary Lee is introduced as the Wisdom Warrior as a Samurai Ninja .  

For the future, I envision that we continue to raise the bar in self defense training where by the physical training and virtual training are together in a training simulation program to achieve in my medical /martial arts opinion the maximum impact in self defense training, to develop and improve that critical reflex response , to neutralize a sudden and random attack,  without hesitation during an adrenaline surge !! 

Respectfully submitted, 

Dr. Reginald Lee   

SET VR LLC