User:Eric Shou-Li Yao

Eric is an engineer, piano technician and martial artist from Toronto, Canada.

Kung fu has been a part of Eric's life for over 25 years, specializing in the last 20 in a diversity of Chinese weaponry. He is a founding member of kungfubrothers.com a worldwide network of martial artists that was established in 2006. Eric is the author of the book "Rope Dart: the Kung Fu Weapon" published in Hong Kong by Chan Sheung Kee Book Company in 2005, and editor of and illustrator for the 2012 republication of "Snake Cat Crane Combined Fist" by Leung Wing-hang.

Eric works full time as an electrical engineer in the public sector, and part time as a certified piano technician. He graduated from the University of Toronto's Engineering Science program in 1998, and from the University of Western Ontario's Piano Technology program in 2003.