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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. [citation needed] He was promoted to tenth degree on July 9, 2022. He had started Gōjū-ryū in 1978. [1]
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 ...
Nick Cerio's Kenpo, Library of Congress catalog card no. TX 1-401-371, 1984, second printing 1998 ; Klouvatos, George. "Nick Cerio's Kenpo The Man and His Style" Oriental Fighting Arts, April 1975: 24–31; Breen, Andrew. "Professor Nick Cerio, Evolution Of A Kenpo Master" Inside Kung Fu, July 1997: 40–45, 102–103; Liedke, Bob.
William Kwai-sun Chow (July 3, 1914 – September 21, 1987, AKA William Ah Sun Chow-Hoon) was instrumental in the development of the martial arts in the United States, specifically the family of styles referred to as kenpo/kempo.
5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) Weight: 200 lb (91 kg; 14 st) Style: Kenpo Karate, Boxing, Taekwondo, Wrestling, Tang Soo Do, Jujutsu, Submission Fighting: Fighting out of: Illinois, U.S. Team: Hackney Combat Academy MMA: Rank 4th Degree Black Belt in Kenpo Karate 2nd Degree Black Belt in Tang Soo Do 2nd Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo: Years active: 1994 ...
1963, Secrets of Chinese Karate. Prentice-Hall ISBN 0-13-797845-6; 1975, Ed Parker's Guide to the Nunchaku ISBN 0-86568-104-X; 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.
In 1985, Hackleman moved from Hawaii to California and renamed his martial arts style, Hawaiian Kempo. The Pit is the only Hawaiian Kempo school that uses the Ke-m-po spelling, instead of the more commonly used Ke-n-po. Hackleman describes his style as more hardcore than other Hawaiian Kenpo schools.
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 ...