- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Born in Los Angeles, Marc MacYoung grew up in Hawthorne, California. As a youngster, he and his thug friends stole the bicycle of Steve Brien - who nearly 25 years later would hire him for help with props/security on a night shoot during the filming of Hanoi Hilton - his first film job. It wasn't until a few years later while working on another film that they discovered their shared past. Much of his later youth was spent in the violent streets of Venice, California where he gained his knowledge of crime and violence. MacYoung worked set construction, set dressing, swing gang, lead man, props and FX on several films such as Hanoi Hilton, Rush Week, Limit up, Breaking the Rules, Wicked Stepmother, Best of the Best, Seedpeople, Syngenor, Death Warrant and Bad Channels. In 1989 his first book on streetfighting, "Cheap Shots Ambushes and other Lessons", was published. He used the time in between film projects to write a total of 13 books and write and produce 5 videos on personal safety/self-defense. He now devotes his time to teaching crime avoidance, martial arts and defensive tactics.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Marc MacYoung
- SpouseDianna Gordon(September 1998 - present)
- Has studied various martial arts since he was 10 years old including Wing Chun, Kali, Silat, Karate, Bagua/Hsing-i.
- Has taught defensive tactics, hand to hand combat, knife fighting to police and military personel from 9 countries on three continents.
- Co-founder of Dango Jiro Karate
- Is considered one of the pioneers of "reality based self-defense"
- First started writing books about streetfighting, but has evolved over the years to teaching people how criminals think and behave so they can be safe from crime and violence
- When it comes to teaching people how to be safe from violence, my biggest enemy is Hollywood. People are so busy looking for how bad guys act on the screen that they don't see the real thing walking right up to them.
- My life wasn't particularly pleasant, in fact, it was downright rough. My greatest accomplishment isn't that I survived all that I have, but rather that I found a way out of the mindset that had caused all that violence. Now I try to teach people not to make the same mistakes I did.
- I've never invented anything in my life. I'm just a reporter. I report what criminals and violent people do, how they think and act.
- I'm not a martial artist. I'm not a streetfighter. I'm a survivor, people just call me those other two because they don't understand what it means to be a survivor.
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