Tags: Martial Artist.
The founder of Vovinam was grandmaster Nguyễn Lộc (Thạch Thất district 8 April 1912 – 4 April 1960) was a Vietnamese martial arts teacher. He was the founder of Vovinam Việt Võ Đạo.Grandmaster Lộc was born in Hữu Bằng village Thạch Thất district then part of Sơn Tây province now a district of Hanoi. He was the eldest of five children of Nguyễn Dinh Xuyen and Nguyễn Thị Hoa.In his younger years he trained in traditional Vietnamese martial arts.