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Once again, my friend Dave has found an item that fires me up with regard to my current obsession with ‘cleaning house’ with my personal Kempo. It’s posted to his blog, and it is an interview with Ira Glass of NPR’s This American Life. Lately I’ve looked to a variety of sources from outside the […]

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John Bishop has posted a sixth video of Sijo Adriano Emperado on Youtube, so I’ve just added it to the earlier  post on this subject at the bottom. One caution - this last one has some ‘not suitable for television’ language in it. 

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John Bishop has posted five (yep, five)  Six  clips on Youtube with excerpts from interviews he has done with Sijo Adriano Emperado of Kajukenbo. As Shaolin Kempo (as far as I know) and Karazenpo Goshinjutsu branch off the Kajukenbo tree, Sijo Emperado’s words are very relevant to our history as well. I’m embedding them here for convenience, but […]

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I thought I’d start a review section, and recommend some of the books (and perhaps videos) that I’ve enjoyed over the years. I’m going to start pulling books off my shelves and reviewing them on a regular basis. Here’s the basic ground rules: 

 I paid for these - no free rides. 
I actually read them - that’s […]

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