Hawaiian Warrior Culture

The History Channel series Warriors has done an episode entitled Hawaii: Islands of Blood. The featured art is Lua, and the episode is fun to watch.

As I watched the techniques being done, I recognized a great many, and for that I (and Kenpo / Kempo) people all over have Henry Okizaki to thank. He incorporated many lua techniques into his teachings while cross referencing them with his jujutsu. I saw a lot of things that were reflected in the Kempo I’ve been learning from Professor Ferreira. It’s a great show, catch it if you can.

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Kempo Jutsu Kai

Having spent Friday and Saturday with Professor Kimo Ferreira of the Kempo Jutsu Kai, I was feeling inspired. I then received an email inquiring about the techniques of Kempo Jutsu, so I thought I’d link to some of the clips on Youtube presented by his affiliate in Salamanca, Spain.
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Goshin Jutsu Kenpo

Goshin Jutsu Kenpo (not to be confused with the Go Shin Jitsu Kai of Bill Chun, Jr. ) is an offshoot of Cha 3 Kenpo as far as I can tell. It’s interesting in an old school way. Gints Klimanis (yep, the same one from the Dog Brothers Documentary) has posted quite a few clips on Vimeo. I’ve embedded one here. This is reminiscent of some real old school kenpo. I find it a bit strange, but you can really see the ‘snap’ in these guys moves.
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Go Shin Jutsu Kenpo - Rotation 08 (Apr 2004) from Gints Klimanis on Vimeo.

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