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I was perusing Youtube, and thought I found a nice little kempo variant. Tigi Mataalii has channel on Youtube where he posts lessons. As with any other person I wasn’t familiar with, I did a little homework. Depending on where you look, he’s a student of Professor chow,  Sam Kuoha earned a third dan under him, he’s an Olympic medalist in Judo in 1968 and Judo  and Karate in 1976, and a breaking world record holder. Sounds great! Except…

Judo wasn’t in the 1968 Olympics, and Karate hasn’t been ever. There’s no record of Tigi Mataalii winning an Olympic Medal. He apparently got booed off the stage for precutting his ice, and Chow didn’t know him. John Bishop smacks him down pretty well at the Kajukenbo Cafe. What’s the deal. 

After the jump there’s also an obnoxious video demonstrating one of his ’signature chi breaks’, by some kid in his kitchen. Obnoxiousness after the jump.