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Kenpo has also been used as a name for multiple martial arts that developed in Hawaii due to cross-cultural exchange between practitioners of Okinawan martial arts, Chinese martial arts, Filipino martial arts, and Japanese martial arts among other influences. [11] In the United States, kenpo is often referred to as Kenpo Karate.
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.
Shaolin Kenpo Karate (or SKK) is a martial art style that combines the Five Animals of Shaolin Kung Fu (Shaolinquan), the core competency of Kenpo, the hard-hitting linear explosiveness of traditional Karate, as well as the power of Western boxing and the felling and grappling arts of Jujutsu, Chin Na, and Mongolian wrestling. [1]
Motobu-ryū has the characteristics of koryū (old style) karate, the martial art known as tī or tōdī, which predates the birth of modern karate, and emphasizes kumite rather than kata. Motobu Udundī ( 本部御殿手 ) , also sometimes called Motobu-ryū, is the martial art of the Motobu family, a branch of the Ryukyuan royal family.
Kenpo Karate, Boxing, Taekwondo, Wrestling, Tang Soo Do, Jujutsu, Submission Fighting: Fighting out of: Illinois, U.S. Team: Hackney Combat Academy MMA: Rank 4th Dan Black Belt in Kenpo Karate 2nd Dan Black Belt in Tang Soo Do 2nd Dan Black Belt in Taekwondo: Years active: 1994–1995 MMA: Mixed martial arts record; Total: 4: Wins: 2: By ...
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Speakman spent years training in American Kenpo under his principal instructor, Larry Tatum, as well as under the system's founder Parker. [5] Speakman received his first-degree black belt in American Kenpo in 1984. He was promoted to ninth degree in kenpo karate by Mills Crenshaw and Bob White and ninth in Gōjū-ryū by Lou Angel on July 2, 2013.
Kajukenbo, American Kenpo, Hawaiian Kempo [1] Kara-Ho Kempo (the unity of spirit, mind, soul and body, fist law) is a martial art created in the 1930s [ 2 ] by the late William Kwai Sun Chow of Hawaii (July 3, 1914 - September 21, 1987).