With great power comes great responsibility: Hong Kong jiu-jitsu black belt trains Chinese police
Viking Wong holds five-day intensive training camp in Hangzhou to teach police how to control physical altercations with minimal force and without inflicting pain
When you’re a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu named Viking Wong, it’s perhaps easy to be stereotyped as an adrenaline-fuelled musclehead.
But this soft-spoken entrepreneur and graduate of the London College of Fashion sips tea between training sessions at his “Hurt Locker” studio in Tsim Sha Tsui and is prone to philosophising when discussing his company, Jiu-Jitsu Sans Frontieres, an expanding network of gyms across Asia which is now training police in China.
“With great power comes great responsibility, that’s the obvious thing to tell the students,” said Wong, who earned his black belt during an 11-year stay in England.
“The main thing here is to control instead of inflict hurt on the other person, because it’s a choice.”
The opportunity in China presented itself through a connection with a high-ranking police official at one of his gyms in Hangzhou.