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I’ve been painstakingly assembling posts and pages with links to videos of the combinations. Villari’s has done the favor of creating a combinations playlist. It’s not necessarily in order, but what a great resource!

This was a ‘special’ animal, outside of the basic five (like the ‘black Tiger). Forearms and claws were essential. Greenwich Kempo demonstrates.

I received a phone call yesterday, and saw an article posted by John Bishop, a noted martial arts writer and Kajukenbo practitioner. George Shimabuku was the killer of Joe Emperado in the 1958 bar fight that changed the course of Kajukenbo development and created a rift between different segments of the Kempo / Kajukenbo community at the time. George Shimabuku has died, closing a dark chapter in the history of Kempo / Kajukenbo.