Works great on people who stand still and move where you want them too...this is like the self-defense videos where attackers only attack with knives at downward angles from above their head...
@Robmanticism Kajukenbo is suposed to have 4 branches:Original; Tum Pai; Chuan Fa and WHKD...our lineage is Sijo Adriano Emperado(founder) - ALeju Reyes - Rihard Peralta - Ed Shepard - Angel Garcia Soldado...and in 1984 Angel Garcia Soldado became direct student of Sijo untill he disapeared in 2009. He represents Sijo and Kajukenbo in Europe since 1987(proven by official document signed in San Diego). We represent SGM Angel Garcia and his evolution of Kajukenbo(w/Sijo's approval).
Another thing that you will quickly learn in Kajukenbo is that while you are applying that joint lock or grapleing move, on your attacker. You wont take into account the other attacker from behind. That is why Kajukenbo is set up the way it is.
@KajukenboPortugal That's awesome! I've been studying Original Hard Style Kajukenbo for a little over two years and we've recently thrown in a few techniques from the Garcia school. I have to say, I love your techniques! Quick, effective and stylish.
+Angel Rodriguez You wont because it wont work. Did you notice when they punch there is no retraction of the punches? They punch the air and leave their arm out there for what ever cool guy technique the other guy wants to use. Normally when these types of "arts" spare it looks like watered down kickboxing.
KA-karate JU-judo/jujitsu KEN- kenpo BO- chinese boxing (kung fu). A hard hitting eclectic style ment for self defense on the street developed in Hawaii in 1947 ish.
You must not forget that the co-founders of Kajukenbo were only around in the beginning. Sijo Emperado was the founder that made the program and developed the concepts with his brother Joe Emperado and their background was from Professor Chow's Kenpo! Sijo Emperado learnt form the other arts in order improve his own. Kajukenbo is a Kenpo Style! Aloha!
True. they aren't that far apart either way. I would say it is older but I guess that depends on when you say it was officially "born" i guess. I take Krav and wish I could take Kajukenbo also. It looks badass!
thanks for the clarification, when I see atemi like you say usually the persons body has the desired reaction and then like you mention they move back and forth trying to recover while the rest of the techniques are being applied. That totally makes sense. Its just that in many demos unfortuantely, you don't see that. You see a hit, one reaction, then the guy is frozen, there is no continous reaction he stays there and just takes a beating with no attempt to counter. So you don't see that.
Well if you see Kajukenbo history you will see where is related. GM Parker trained with Professor Chow; Sijo Emperado(kajukenbo founder) was Professor Chow Chief Instructor at the time...No American Kenpo here. If you are a Kenpo Man you should see more about the history of all Kenpo styles related to Hawaii. Aloha!
In our kaju the 1st strike is not an imobilizing one...it's more a strong one in order to make the opponent react in such way you can work from there. You're looking as the opponent doesn't move when your work him out but in fact he's reacting to your strikes...these exercises are for training your muscular memory and flow so you can work in a real situation. 2 things to be Self Def:Suprise effect & not making it a combat.If u punch and kick as in a ring you loose-friends, chairs, bottles...ask+
I remember reading about Emperado in Black Belt some years ago, He was one tough dude. I don't see him as a multiple combo guy, one or maybe two of his punches would have done the job very effectively. Thanks for sharing this video
Well, we can see similarities in every MA. Even if I don't see chi sao in this video, being and evolving system it's normal that we can see some concepts that can be seen in other arts...what we can see in our Kajukenbo is a concern on making good coordination with upper body and legs(movement). Aloha & Mahalo
We could say that. It depends in the way you are seeing things; the MMA term is something from the 90's...If we go so far history we can say every MA style was an MMA once it combined different features from different MA evolving along. People say that Kajukenbo was the first MMA because it was the 1st style assumed like that. Sijo Emperado was the first to say clearly that the style was a Mix of MA know how....ALL the other styles had background in other MA but didn't assume that...
Daniel Okazaki, SamChow, and others attempted to piggy back off of the Polynesian Art of Lua that wasn't really taught to outsiders so they attempted to assimilate other Arts into different Arts with mixed results!
I have a question, I see in many martial arts that employ quick counterstrikes into a prearranged series of multiple strikes and I wonder is that based on the idea that the first strike is going to totally immobilize the opponent where the rest is going to be possible? Also, is the idea that as these strikes are coming the previous strike in the series continuously opens the person for the next one? If that is the case what happens when that first one doesn't freeze the opponent in place?
I wouldn't characterize his reply as a waste of time, he was only attempting to teach a little history. Don't forget that at any time in the response he could easily execute a hip throw, etc, if he wanted too. Also, there were plenty of leg kicks that could have been leg reaps as well, There was also neck locks with rear leg trips for takedowns. All of these endings that result in the attacker on the ground are adapted from Jujitsu, which is the parent art of Judo.
Strikes are great, but the demonstration would be better if they use more on throws and joint locks since one of kajukenbo's founders was a judo practitioner.
a lot of arts will tell you to modify you technique in ways to keep you from getting hurt as bad. for example lets say your grabbed from behind in a bear hug and you try to stomp on your attacks foot and it does nothing...what do you do? you modify with a different escape technique such as striking the attackers groin area with your heel of your foot or bashing the attackers nose wit the back of the head, my instructor is big on if one thing doesn't work modify on the fly. hope this helps,
they sure do love kicking blokes in the old Bollocks. Also, what part of this video shows Kajukenbo (the "bo" of Kajukenbo being boxing) use of boxing? because I ain't seeing it.
Traditionally, the reason for the slow movement in demonstrations like this is for 1). The defender to use techniques to stop the initial attack(s) and understand what techniques work in that position and how they work and 2). To showcase the techniques of the art to non disciples. It also helps work on speed and accuracy.
As form on the last throw in the multiple attacker situation. The defender had very little control, stepping and nearly falling backwards, using so much force to unbalance his opponent. He should have gone straight down, driving the opponent into the ground with much less wasted movement and more energy transferred to the target. One of these schools just opened in my town and I was considering going - is this display a reflection of what is taught?
"Imi Lichtenfeld, (...) training as a boxer and wrestler,(...)in the 1930s. In the late-1940s, following his immigration to Israel, he began to provide lessons on combat training to what was to become the IDF, who went on to develop the system that became known as Krav Maga." Sijo Emperado was a 5th degree BB in Kenpo(Prof Chow) in the 40's and started his way in Kajukenbo in 47' when he created a group with 4 other Martial Artists to create Kajukenbo....slightly older is not for shure, IMO...
Am I the only one who thinks some of these moves look like Wing Chun?? I have trained in Wing Chun for almost 3 years now and I could tell you, a lot of these blocks and counter-strikes are wing chun based.
I tried Kajukenbo a few months ago, but I didn't like the religiosity of the system, because they pray before each class and made so many things that didn't like me. So I left the practice.
OK. I understand that, but... did you know about what I am talking about? Because I only know one single Kajukenbo School, this one come from Grandmaster Lucky Luciano's lineage and the Sifu gave me an explaination about this pray, He told me that this pray was created by his Grandmaster Lucky Luciano.
Yes I know about that. It was a tradition passed troughout some schools but I think the prayer was invented by Frank Ordonez. Anyway I don't know it as a must in every lineage/school.
Is it from Kenpo? Becuz i saw things from kenpo lots of things and it looks like person just rename kenpo but doesnt really do Kenpo? If your a kenpo guy like myself what was your belt rank?
Many moves shown here are not executable in Self Defense situations. The knife defense taught here is extremely dangerous, don't ever do that, if someone comes for your with a knife just run.
Yes that is what I said. If you can not run, just hit/kick the shit out of your enemys balls. It might sound weird, but there is no bigger coward than the guy who pulls out a knife in a stree fight. I am not even trying to be funny here, I have had front teeth knocked out and all that stuff...but fists and knifes are something completely differen.t
A knife attack is normally a surprise but anyway it can also be seen with a small time to react. You can train it or don't, for is better to do it. Running is no good option sometimes. Training against knifes is for us a better option then defending a 9mm a few centimeters from your forehead...options all good training if putted under context :)
but IMO KA (karate) JU (judo/jujutsu) KEN (kenpo) BO (eastern and western boxing) is a KENPO STYLE. Either way the Kajukenbo can be considered the 1st idea of openly mixing Martial Arts and not saying that we had a new style coming, only the concept was new. Anyway the most important was that Kajukenbo was Self Defense Style and not an Combat Sport Style. Aloha & Mahalo!
Not really! But GM Parker did train with Sijo Emperado as a student. The roots can be traced to both styles but me in particular never trained Parker's Kenpo, not even my GM Garcia. So I don't really understand why you say that...bottom line, sibling arts but no the same.Aloha
+Dancing Hawk no Sir, but they share some roots. Ed Parker trained with Prof. Chow when Sijo Emperado(Kajukenbo founder) was Prof Chow Chief instructor. After Sijo created Kajukenbo and GM Parker the American Kenpo
not really, not even a day of training Parker Kenpo, nor my Master....100% Kajukenbo....altough SGM Parker trained from Professor Chow and Kajukenbo's founder Sijo Emperado who was Prof Chow's assistance in classes. Aloha
Thanks for wasting your time in explaining the history since I already know about it. And kajukenbo isn't only kenpo because it supposed to have karate, boxing, and judo techniques.
Jo Davi- You think kaju is "kindergarten" compared to krav maga? To quote Game of Thrones, "You know nothing". We have a krav maga "master" here at the gym where I work. I pwned him, embarrassed him so bad he decided to stop tdaching here. He's not the first km fraud that I or other kaju practitioners have humbled. km is based on bs. Their founder, imi lichtenfeld is was a no talent hack with a history of lies and fabrications. He taught self defense to haganah? Oh, rilly?! Whatever he taught them WASN'T fighting! They were an established terrorist organization, what would HE be teaching them? I suppose km MIGHT be effective against a starved 17 year old unarmed Palestinian, but against anyone with half a clue about combat....not so much.
You know the guy does not understand anything about self-defense and interpretation of martial situations when he thinks what the video shows is not applicable. People talking bulshit about bulshit.
This is Kindergarten in light of Krav Magra this shadow boxing is a joke. I have met Grand Masters in Kung Fu in their 90's that trained under Bruce Bruce that can immobilize through pressure points that are lefts so wide open in this art that it wouldn't even be a fair match up with a Master against a Novice! agree. You have to have pressure attacks a striking art can go only so far. Once I have you grappled your OWNED SON!
1:48 "Hey bro could you help me with my ca.....BAM BOOM...WTF man?"
Works great on people who stand still and move where you want them too...this is like the self-defense videos where attackers only attack with knives at downward angles from above their head...
@Robmanticism Kajukenbo is suposed to have 4 branches:Original; Tum Pai; Chuan Fa and WHKD...our lineage is Sijo Adriano Emperado(founder) - ALeju Reyes - Rihard Peralta - Ed Shepard - Angel Garcia Soldado...and in 1984 Angel Garcia Soldado became direct student of Sijo untill he disapeared in 2009. He represents Sijo and Kajukenbo in Europe since 1987(proven by official document signed in San Diego). We represent SGM Angel Garcia and his evolution of Kajukenbo(w/Sijo's approval).
Another thing that you will quickly learn in Kajukenbo is that while you are applying that joint lock or grapleing move, on your attacker. You wont take into account the other attacker from behind. That is why Kajukenbo is set up the way it is.
@KajukenboPortugal That's awesome! I've been studying Original Hard Style Kajukenbo for a little over two years and we've recently thrown in a few techniques from the Garcia school. I have to say, I love your techniques! Quick, effective and stylish.
I'd like to see actual sparring with this art. I'll keep searching. Good video.
Angel Rodriguez You can see some insightful material in the Kajukenbo episode of Fight Quest, but always take those shows with a grain of salt.
+Angel Rodriguez You wont because it wont work. Did you notice when they punch there is no retraction of the punches? They punch the air and leave their arm out there for what ever cool guy technique the other guy wants to use. Normally when these types of "arts" spare it looks like watered down kickboxing.
KA-karate JU-judo/jujitsu KEN- kenpo BO- chinese boxing (kung fu). A hard hitting eclectic style ment for self defense on the street developed in Hawaii in 1947 ish.
You must not forget that the co-founders of Kajukenbo were only around in the beginning. Sijo Emperado was the founder that made the program and developed the concepts with his brother Joe Emperado and their background was from Professor Chow's Kenpo! Sijo Emperado learnt form the other arts in order improve his own. Kajukenbo is a Kenpo Style! Aloha!
True. they aren't that far apart either way. I would say it is older but I guess that depends on when you say it was officially "born" i guess. I take Krav and wish I could take Kajukenbo also. It looks badass!
thanks for the clarification, when I see atemi like you say usually the persons body has the desired reaction and then like you mention they move back and forth trying to recover while the rest of the techniques are being applied. That totally makes sense. Its just that in many demos unfortuantely, you don't see that. You see a hit, one reaction, then the guy is frozen, there is no continous reaction he stays there and just takes a beating with no attempt to counter. So you don't see that.
Well if you see Kajukenbo history you will see where is related. GM Parker trained with Professor Chow; Sijo Emperado(kajukenbo founder) was Professor Chow Chief Instructor at the time...No American Kenpo here. If you are a Kenpo Man you should see more about the history of all Kenpo styles related to Hawaii. Aloha!
Thank you! We must thank SGM Garcia for his work.Aloha!
In our kaju the 1st strike is not an imobilizing one...it's more a strong one in order to make the opponent react in such way you can work from there. You're looking as the opponent doesn't move when your work him out but in fact he's reacting to your strikes...these exercises are for training your muscular memory and flow so you can work in a real situation. 2 things to be Self Def:Suprise effect & not making it a combat.If u punch and kick as in a ring you loose-friends, chairs, bottles...ask+
I remember reading about Emperado in Black Belt some years ago, He was one tough dude. I don't see him as a multiple combo guy, one or maybe two of his punches would have done the job very effectively. Thanks for sharing this video
Well, we can see similarities in every MA. Even if I don't see chi sao in this video, being and evolving system it's normal that we can see some concepts that can be seen in other arts...what we can see in our Kajukenbo is a concern on making good coordination with upper body and legs(movement). Aloha & Mahalo
We could say that. It depends in the way you are seeing things; the MMA term is something from the 90's...If we go so far history we can say every MA style was an MMA once it combined different features from different MA evolving along. People say that Kajukenbo was the first MMA because it was the 1st style assumed like that. Sijo Emperado was the first to say clearly that the style was a Mix of MA know how....ALL the other styles had background in other MA but didn't assume that...
This is awesome. I can really see the kenpo in kajuKENbo
greating from belgium, good work guys.
Daniel Okazaki, SamChow, and others attempted to piggy back off of the Polynesian Art of Lua that wasn't really taught to outsiders so they attempted to assimilate other Arts into different Arts with mixed results!
I have a question, I see in many martial arts that employ quick counterstrikes into a prearranged series of multiple strikes and I wonder is that based on the idea that the first strike is going to totally immobilize the opponent where the rest is going to be possible? Also, is the idea that as these strikes are coming the previous strike in the series continuously opens the person for the next one? If that is the case what happens when that first one doesn't freeze the opponent in place?
Interesting. Def different than the Kenpo I am used too.
if you fight rocks and your local criminals are standing dummies, then this is your martial art.
I wouldn't characterize his reply as a waste of time, he was only attempting to teach a little history. Don't forget that at any time in the response he could easily execute a hip throw, etc, if he wanted too. Also, there were plenty of leg kicks that could have been leg reaps as well, There was also neck locks with rear leg trips for takedowns. All of these endings that result in the attacker on the ground are adapted from Jujitsu, which is the parent art of Judo.
Kajukenbo the first the original mma.
Strikes are great, but the demonstration would be better if they use more on throws and joint locks since one of kajukenbo's founders was a judo practitioner.
Simplesmente incrível...
Hello from America my fellow Kajukenbo brothers.
Mahalo!!! Aloha! :)
@lococavasa Actually, there are other mma styles that preceded kajukenbo.
a lot of arts will tell you to modify you technique in ways to keep you from getting hurt as bad. for example lets say your grabbed from behind in a bear hug and you try to stomp on your attacks foot and it does nothing...what do you do? you modify with a different escape technique such as striking the attackers groin area with your heel of your foot or bashing the attackers nose wit the back of the head, my instructor is big on if one thing doesn't work modify on the fly. hope this helps,
Excellent video, I only have one question: which style of Kajukenbo is this?
they sure do love kicking blokes in the old Bollocks. Also, what part of this video shows Kajukenbo (the "bo" of Kajukenbo being boxing) use of boxing? because I ain't seeing it.
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Excellent grab arts and punching tricks ;)
so similar to wing chun ....
Why does the attacker stand still after his first failed attack? I've never fought anyone who didn't pull their hand back after a missd attempt.
Traditionally, the reason for the slow movement in demonstrations like this is for 1). The defender to use techniques to stop the initial attack(s) and understand what techniques work in that position and how they work and 2). To showcase the techniques of the art to non disciples. It also helps work on speed and accuracy.
jeremy22b In addition to what David Lewis said; if the attacker is struck with full intention, they're likely to be dazed for a short moment.
As form on the last throw in the multiple attacker situation. The defender had very little control, stepping and nearly falling backwards, using so much force to unbalance his opponent.
He should have gone straight down, driving the opponent into the ground with much less wasted movement and more energy transferred to the target.
One of these schools just opened in my town and I was considering going - is this display a reflection of what is taught?
Well said...
"Imi Lichtenfeld, (...) training as a boxer and wrestler,(...)in the 1930s. In the late-1940s, following his immigration to Israel, he began to provide lessons on combat training to what was to become the IDF, who went on to develop the system that became known as Krav Maga." Sijo Emperado was a 5th degree BB in Kenpo(Prof Chow) in the 40's and started his way in Kajukenbo in 47' when he created a group with 4 other Martial Artists to create Kajukenbo....slightly older is not for shure, IMO...
awesome! aloha
what does KaJuKenBo stand for ?? what is this style ??
I'd say that Greek Pankration was the first MMA.
Am I the only one who thinks some of these moves look like Wing Chun??
I have trained in Wing Chun for almost 3 years now and I could tell you, a lot of these blocks and counter-strikes are wing chun based.
Is it from Kenpo? Becuz i saw things from kenpo lots of things and it looks like person just rename kenpo but doesnt really do Kenpo?
I tried Kajukenbo a few months ago, but I didn't like the religiosity of the system, because they pray before each class and made so many things that didn't like me. So I left the practice.
Miguel Velarde We don't make that in Garcia's Method because there are many creeds in the world. We are a non religious organization :) thanks!
OK. I understand that, but... did you know about what I am talking about? Because I only know one single Kajukenbo School, this one come from Grandmaster Lucky Luciano's lineage and the Sifu gave me an explaination about this pray, He told me that this pray was created by his Grandmaster Lucky Luciano.
Yes I know about that. It was a tradition passed troughout some schools but I think the prayer was invented by Frank Ordonez. Anyway I don't know it as a must in every lineage/school.
Is it from Kenpo? Becuz i saw things from kenpo lots of things and it looks like person just rename kenpo but doesnt really do Kenpo? If your a kenpo guy like myself what was your belt rank?
Many moves shown here are not executable in Self Defense situations. The knife defense taught here is extremely dangerous, don't ever do that, if someone comes for your with a knife just run.
+Weg der Mitte better option is to run, if you can off course....
Yes that is what I said. If you can not run, just hit/kick the shit out of your enemys balls. It might sound weird, but there is no bigger coward than the guy who pulls out a knife in a stree fight. I am not even trying to be funny here, I have had front teeth knocked out and all that stuff...but fists and knifes are something completely differen.t
many options are valueble, the important is to train and there is no formula, just good or bad practices and improvement
i'd love to see you moves :) you are quite sure about your knowledge
A knife attack is normally a surprise but anyway it can also be seen with a small time to react. You can train it or don't, for is better to do it. Running is no good option sometimes. Training against knifes is for us a better option then defending a 9mm a few centimeters from your forehead...options all good training if putted under context :)
I hear kajukenbo is really only a training method? I'd like more info thanks
This is not Parker, they look similar b/c they come from the same lineage. Emperado & Parker were both Prof. Chow's students.
What is the music?
es bonita una disciplina a unos de locos a super equilibrados y otros lo contrario . pero es bonito saber y nunca utilizarlo
King of Fighters or SNK should add a character like this haha
but IMO KA (karate) JU (judo/jujutsu) KEN (kenpo) BO (eastern and western boxing) is a KENPO STYLE. Either way the Kajukenbo can be considered the 1st idea of openly mixing Martial Arts and not saying that we had a new style coming, only the concept was new. Anyway the most important was that Kajukenbo was Self Defense Style and not an Combat Sport Style. Aloha & Mahalo!
awsome
Thanks!! Mahalo
I guess you could call Krav Maga an mma since it is all based on other martial arts. It's only slightly older than Kajukenbo
Not really! But GM Parker did train with Sijo Emperado as a student. The roots can be traced to both styles but me in particular never trained Parker's Kenpo, not even my GM Garcia. So I don't really understand why you say that...bottom line, sibling arts but no the same.Aloha
this is real Kajukenbo!
This looks similar to Bujinkan Ninjutsu, would go well with Ninjutsu to...
is american kenpo drived from kajukenbo??
+Dancing Hawk no Sir, but they share some roots. Ed Parker trained with Prof. Chow when Sijo Emperado(Kajukenbo founder) was Prof Chow Chief instructor. After Sijo created Kajukenbo and GM Parker the American Kenpo
@MrBigdaddy8 thanks Sir! Aloha!
why does it look like wing chun?
Whats the song at the last few seconds?
SkillHouner made by Sifu Renato for the video :)
They call it mixed martial arts now.
Interesting...similar to Kenpo
Awesome video, obrigado my friend! (you're portuguese right?)
it really is
not really, not even a day of training Parker Kenpo, nor my Master....100% Kajukenbo....altough SGM Parker trained from Professor Chow and Kajukenbo's founder Sijo Emperado who was Prof Chow's assistance in classes. Aloha
100% Parker Kenpo!
This is similar to kravmaga
a gimmicky version of karate. nice.
He is just dancing.
HAHAHA.
山田万太郎 You should dance in a real train and understand what is this kind of ballad :)
Thanks for wasting your time in explaining the history since I already know about it. And kajukenbo isn't only kenpo because it supposed to have karate, boxing, and judo techniques.
looks like kenpo
Is that your brother...lol..
I find it similar with Krav Maga.
Not the way we do it state side. USA
:)
my kajunkenbo sifu was of higher rank
Jo Davi-
You think kaju is "kindergarten" compared to krav maga? To quote Game of Thrones, "You know nothing".
We have a krav maga "master" here at the gym where I work. I pwned him, embarrassed him so bad he decided to stop tdaching here. He's not the first km fraud that I or other kaju practitioners have humbled.
km is based on bs. Their founder, imi lichtenfeld is was a no talent hack with a history of lies and fabrications.
He taught self defense to haganah? Oh, rilly?! Whatever he taught them WASN'T fighting! They were an established terrorist organization, what would HE be teaching them?
I suppose km MIGHT be effective against a starved 17 year old unarmed Palestinian, but against anyone with half a clue about combat....not so much.
You know the guy does not understand anything about self-defense and interpretation of martial situations when he thinks what the video shows is not applicable. People talking bulshit about bulshit.
This is Kindergarten in light of Krav Magra this shadow boxing is a joke. I have met Grand Masters in Kung Fu in their 90's that trained under Bruce Bruce that can immobilize through pressure points that are lefts so wide open in this art that it wouldn't even be a fair match up with a Master against a Novice! agree. You have to have pressure attacks a striking art can go only so far. Once I have you grappled your OWNED SON!