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American Kenpo Karate (/ ˈ k ɛ n p oʊ /), also known as American Kenpo or Ed Parker's Kenpo Karate, is an American martial art [2] [3] founded and codified by Ed Parker. It is synthesized mainly from Japanese and Okinawan martial arts such as karate and judo, [1] with influence from Chinese martial arts. [4] [5] It is a form and descendant ...
In 1946 Robert Trias, a returning U.S. Navy veteran, began teaching private lessons in Phoenix, Arizona. [9] Other early teachers of karate in America were Ed Parker (a native Hawaiian and Coast Guard veteran who earned a black belt in 1953), [10] George Mattson (who began studying while stationed in Okinawa in 1956), and Peter Urban (a Navy veteran who started training while stationed in ...
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1975, Ed Parker's Kenpo Karate Accumulative Journal. International Kenpo Karate Association. 1978, Inside Elvis. Rampart House ISBN 0-89773-000-3; 1982, Ed Parker's Infinite Insights into Kenpo, Vol. 1: Mental Stimulation. Delsby Publications ISBN 0-910293-00-7; 1983, Ed Parker's Infinite Insights into Kenpo, Vol. 2: Physical Analyzation I.
Jeff Speakman (born November 8, 1958) is an American actor and a martial artist in the art of American Kenpo and Japanese Gōjū-ryū, [1] earning black belts in each. [ citation needed ] Between 2008 and 2018, he was President of the International Kempo Federation .
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Parker is the most prominent name in the Mitose lineage. A student of Chow in Hawaii for nearly six years, Parker moved to the US mainland to attend Brigham Young University. In 1957, he began teaching the kenpo that he had learned from Chow, and throughout his life modified and refined the art until it became Ed Parker's American Kenpo. [12]