Loo-Chi Hu was born in Yangchow, China in 1924, and before the revolution studied T'ai Chi Ch'uan, the internal Chinese martial art, under master Chen Wei-Ming, which he feels helped improve his health and guide him during his feisty teenage years. A master mariner, he worked in the fisheries business in Taiwan; then, in 1955, he was one of a crew of six who sailed on a journey across the Pacific Ocean from Taiwan to San Francisco, an adventure that made international front-page news.
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