What Bruce Lee & Ed Parker Told Their Barber | Albert Cornejo

He cut Bruce Lee’s hair, trained under Ed Parker, and became a 10th-degree black belt in American Kenpo. Sifu Albert Cornejo joins Blood, Sweat & Cinema to share his remarkable life in martial arts—and his friendships with the people behind the legends. From haircuts and meals in Chinatown with Bruce Lee to his unforgettable encounter with Elvis Presley, Albert shares personal stories spanning decades. He also remembers training with Dan Inosanto and Jimmy Wing Woo, helping troubled young people through martial arts, and the final haircut he recalls giving his friend and mentor, Ed Parker. Albert received his 10th-degree black belt in January 2013, following decades of training and teaching. 🎙️ Full conversation from Blood, Sweat & Cinema Podcast. #BruceLee #AlbertCornejo #EdParker #Kenpo #MartialArts ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CHAPTERS 00:00 Introducing Sifu Albert Cornejo 00:54 Growing Up and Discovering Kenpo 04:07 Dan Inosanto and Old-School Kenpo Training 10:51 Meeting Ed Parker: “Eddie Boy” 15:30 The Early Internationals and Martial Arts Legends 20:10 Ed Parker’s Friendship and Mentoring Young People 24:23 Meeting Bruce Lee and Eating in Chinatown 26:13 Training with Jimmy Wing Woo and Learning Tai Chi 32:58 Defending Ed Parker and Teaching Kenpo 35:57 Becoming a Barber and Helping Troubled Kids 41:18 Stan Laurel and Hollywood Barbershop Stories 46:14 Meeting Elvis Presley and Ed Parker’s Ukulele 48:51 Cutting Bruce Lee’s Hair and Their Conversations 51:32 Practical Kenpo, Gene LeBell, and Teaching 58:38 Ed Parker’s Final Haircut: Albert Remembers Their Last Conversation 1:02:48 Frank Trejo and the Fighters Albert Respected 1:03:35 Chuck Norris and Seeing Jean-Claude Van Damme at the Internationals 1:03:59 Jhoon Rhee and Board-Breaking Stories 1:07:20 Becoming a 10th-Degree Black Belt 1:09:22 Remembering Martial Arts Legends 1:11:35 Admiring Muhammad Ali 1:12:11 Jean-Claude Van Damme’s Splits, Kicks, and Movies 1:12:45 What Martial Arts Gave Albert ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 THE BSC PODCAST – EARLY ACCESS MEMBERSHIPS Join BSC memberships ranging from $1.49 ($0.99 on desktop) to $6.99/month and beyond! ✔ Early access to episodes ✔ Members-only content ✔ Behind-the-scenes updates ✔ Help support the podcast Become a BSC Member:    / @thebscpod   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 WATCH MORE BLOOD, SWEAT & CINEMA 🥋 More Martial Arts Interviews:    / @thebscpod   📺 Blood, Sweat & Cinema Channel:    / @thebscpod   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW BLOOD, SWEAT & CINEMA Instagram: @thebscpod TikTok: @thebscpod Facebook: @thebscpod X / Twitter: @thebscpod ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 BRANDS WE TRUST (Using these supports the channel) 🥊 HAYABUSA https://lcshop.co/4x5FqC USE CODE: BSC Additional 10% Discount 💪 1ST PHORM https://1stphorm.sjv.io/c/6823228/306... 🎬 CAPCUT https://capcutaffiliateprogram.pxf.io... 👊 BUCKED UP https://bckd.co/xbP281N USE CODE: BSC1 Additional 10% Discount 🔥 ALPHALETE No matter what… show up. Train in Alphalete: https://alphalete-athletics-llc.pxf.i... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 Watch Full Interviews on YouTube    / @thebscpod   🎧 Listen on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3ST4iVS... 🍎 Listen on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...