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Chris Casamassa is probably most known for his role as Takeda, AKA Scorpion in the Mortal Kombat movies and television series. According to him, they are preparing to begin shooting on a third Mortal Kombat movie in September, in which he will reprise his role as the undead fighter.

Anyone who knows me knows I'm a big fan of the Mortal Kombat franchise, even though the second movie almost made for a fatality for the series. Aside from the two movies, there is also the Mortal Kombat: Conquest TV series, which I loved watching so many years ago, though I never got a chance to see it all until recently, thanks to the episodes being online. I've been watching a lot of Mortal Kombat lately, but then I started thinking.

Chris Casamasa is, aside from being a stuntman and actor, quite a serious martial artist and has built something of a franchise out of his Red Dragon Karate chain of schools. He loves to teach and, I suspect, makes a lot more money in that business than doing small movie parts. He's been seriously into martial arts for 40 years, having started as a small child when his father, a black belt in multiple styles, told he could start learning under the condition that he never quit until he gets his black belt.

"I learned at a very young age about commitment and dedication and sticking to something," said Casamassa. "My father told me that I could quit once I got to black belt, but I was hooked, so I really never wanted to stop." Commitment and dedication are common subjects in the world of success and motivation. Many great men of our time write about how important it is to stick with something. If you read success writers like Robert Kiyosaki, George Samuel Clason or Napoleon Hill you will encounter many little anecdotes about people who, right at the point where all seemed lost, or where they were about to give up, they pushed just a bit further and the windfall of success came upon them.

So after a few days watching Mortal Kombat, while still working on my new project of course, I decided that I am only at the beginning. I am not out of the woods yet, as far as ordeals or taking this adventure to where I want it. In the past I have often started projects and at the first sign of things not going as I want them, I would move on. Worse still, I would come up with what I consider a better idea and want to move on to that, without letting the original idea play out.

I think this is the time to really focus on my own commitment to what I am creating for the Japanese market. In that past, as I wrote before, some of the stuff I did for the Japanese market saved me in times of crisis. In fact, it has been one of the best performing endeavors I have embarked upon. So rather than get too relaxed now, and spend too much time watching shows, going to the mall or chatting for hours on Skype, I want to be more committed to my next show and building my name and my career. That will really put this adventure on the right path.