HarperCollins 1st published 'The Dragon's Journey', by Duy Long Nguyen and James Knight, in 2004.


As a five year old Duy Lengthy Nguyen (Longy) saw the death and destruction from the Vietnam war. When a teen, he ruled the streets of Saigon, and immediately after escaping Vietnam on a boat he began a new life in Australia as a refugee. Longy ultimately went on to make use of his present to heal, treating some of the most potent people today inside the world. The foreword towards the Dragon's Journey was written by Rupert Murdoch and Frank Lowy.

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Longy had accomplished several factors by the time he was 15. He was accepted as a member of a primitive hill tribe, trained by South Korean masters in taekwondo, reaching his black belt at 10 and hunted alongside combat seasoned soldiers. Longy had also witnessed the death and destruction in the war initially hand, seeing for himself the aftermath of your Tet offensive.


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Moving with his loved ones to Saigon, Longy soon gained a effective reputation with his back street brawling and he took command of his personal black-market gang at 14 years of age. Longy eventually escaped Vietnam with his brothers and sisters, on a small-overcrowded boat. After surviving an attack by pirates, they had been rescued from their sinking boat by a Japanese tanker. Longy and his household stayed in Japan for any short time, where he attained his black belt in Karate. Longy later immigrated to Australia.

In Sydney Longy faced racism and a lot of other challenges as he struggled for acceptance. He survived, when shot three times at Sydney's Chinatown and helped the New South Wales Police Force expose corruption from inside their ranks.


Longy redirected his concentrate on his instinctive present for healing. He was introduced to therapeutic healing by the Jarai mountain people in central Vietnam as a 5 year old. It was there he initially learnt the use of stress points to heal. His procedures have been created more than lots of years from masters in Vietnam, Thailand, Japan and Hong Kong. He has studied herbs and all-natural treatments, Thai therapies, acupressure, acupuncture and reflexology.


Within the following years, Longy became a therapist for the Australian rugby league test team and State of Origin series. Longy was on set for the three Matrix motion pictures, assisting Keanu Reeves recover from a neck injury and prepare him for the fighting sequences. He also helped Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fisbourne and Hugo Weaving prepare for the martial arts and action scenes.


Other celebrity consumers include Pat Rafter, Linford Christie, Anthony Mundine, Elle Macpherson and Megan Gale and lots of international sports stars.


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Excerpt from the foreword by Rupert Murdoch and Frank Lowy, 2004.

"Longy's life is really a study in the times, indeed a journal of recent history. War, death, politics, violence, crime, refugees, integration, racism... he has dealt with each and every in his own distinctive manner...Longy can be a outstanding human getting..."