Comments on My trip to Black Belt at 50... and beyond!: Lavallees - a blended school

Here's an article which discusses the origin and t...

2009-11-13T20:38:51.635-08:00

Here's an article which discusses the origin and theory of the original American Kenpo self defense: 50 Ways to Sunday. And here's an article with a History of Kenpo by Will Tracy.

Doctroid, I don't know as much as I'd like about o...

2009-11-13T20:35:09.107-08:00

Doctroid, I don't know as much as I'd like about our lineage or Kyoshi's. I wrote about Kyoshi's instructors on an earlier post.It's based on a little web research to track down the signatories on Kyoshi's certificates.

I have a post by Jeff Fasoldt about the early days in Liverpool.

I'd like to find a history of Kenpo. Any recommendations?

Thanks for this, nice to know a little more about ...

2009-11-12T17:18:14.739-08:00

Thanks for this, nice to know a little more about where some of this stuff comes from. More details would be nice if you ever get them, e.g. who specifically the kenpo katas came from, how far back... Are you familiar with the generations of the lineage before what you quoted here? Chow's black belt certificate was signed by Thomas Young, who was a student of James Mitose, although Chow may have studied directly under Mitose too. Mitose is interesting; Google for information. He claimed he learned his martial arts from his family in Japan, near Nagasaki, and that's the story Jim Tracy tells on his web site, but some other authors say Mitose's style (as documented in a book he wrote) is definitely an Okinawan style, and that in fact Mitose's book was, erm, heavily influenced by a book written by an Okinawan karateka. So there's a bit of a mystery there.