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WHAT IS KaJuKenBo
KaJuKenBo is a martial art system founded by Adriano D. Emperado in Hawaii in 1947.
The word KaJuKenBo is broken down into five
different names :
KA - Korean Karate (Tang Soo Do)
JU - Jiu-Jitsu (Se Keino) and Judo (Kodokan)
KEN - Kenpo Karate (Kara-Ho)
BO - Chinese Boxing (Shaolin Kung Fu)
The name KaJuKenBo was crated from the styles of five men who
place all of their efforts into a system they wanted to develop
that would be efficient for street-self defense.
These original five men whose names are Peter (P.Y.Y.) Choo who
represented Korean Tang Soo Do; Frank Ordonez, a Se Keino
Jiu-Jitsu practitioner; Joseph Holek from Kodokan Judo;
Adriano D. Emperado Chinese Kara-Ho Kempo; and Clarence Chang,
a Shaolin Kung-Fu stylist.
In 1947 in an area known as the Palama Settlement in Honolulu,
Hawaii the five men who were black belts in their own respective
systems got together to form pact called the Black-Belt Society.
Peter
Y.Y. Choo, Jr. -
Responsible for the Korean Karate -
Tang Soo Do or the "KA" in KaJuKenBo, Peter Choo studied the
martial arts extensively. He studied with J. Rhee in Tae Kwon Do
Sam Luke in Judo, Thomas Young in Kenpo Karate and Koichi Tohei a
10th degree master in Aikido. Choo who also was a Boxer received
the prestigious Joe Lynch Boxing award in 1937. Joe Lynch was the
trainer of the 1934-36 heavyweight champion Max Baer.
Joseph
Holck - who is
responsible for contributing the
Japanese Kodokan Judo / Danzan Ryu Jiu-Jitsu, or half of the
"JU", in the KaJuKenBo system. He was the one who came up
with the name "KaJuKenBo". Joe Holck started his Jiu-Jitsu
training in 1938 under the tutelage of Henry Okazaki when he was
11 years old.
When Okazak stopped teaching, he then trained with Sig Kufferath.
His first Judo instructor Inouye a former collegiate Judo champion
back in 1946. Shihan Holck is also the founder and president of
the "Kodenkan Yudanshakai Organization" (School of the Ancient
Tradition Black Belt Society) in Tucson, AZ since 1967.
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