Watching the Kajukenbo episode for the 1st time right now. Does anyone think its worth anything? Looks kind of foolish to me. The underground sparring session looks like a bunch of little kids fake fighting. Any Kajukenbo students on the UG? Would anybody bother training in this "art".
Ive done some and it is very tough. The closer to the original the tougher.
They just said this isnt a JJ match. Its sounds like theyre scared that the top students would get smoked on the ground. I mean why not let him do ground fighting if it keeps him safe?
Did someone say Vision Quest?
is this the one where the grandmasters or whatever look like bikers in san fran i think? personally i liked both that and human weapon and wish they woulda had more seasons of both...fight quest was a lil more realistic n some of the fights are pretty good haha also i think all styles have something you can use but theres people that can make it all work in live situations and those that cant
Kajukenbo was one of the first legitimate attempts at MMA training.
I think it was a combinatin of karate (ka), judo (ju), kempo (kem), and bo staffery or something else (b0).
Michael Dacascos' father was one of the founders and it came from Hawaii.
They were a step up from Bruce Tegner.
bhealthy - bjj > kajuKIMBO
IT's legit. Depends on the school. They just picked one that had sloppy sparring. they could have went to THE PIT with Chuck Liddell. The Hawaiian Kempo they teach came from the Kajukenbo lineage. They modified it and renamed it. You can check the lineage and you will see.
There are many legit Kajukenbo schools with tough, skilled fighters and also many not legit that are mcdojos.
no face punches = wack as fuck IMO
the BJJ ep, and the boxing episode where the MMA fighter trains with Nacho were the best ones
I actually trained in Kajukenbo for over 4 years in San Jose California during the 90's and it was a great experience. It really is a true attempt to create a mixed martial art, the name itself is made up of the forms it draws it's basis from:
KA = Japanese traditional karate
JU = Jiu Jitsu
KEN = Kenpo
BO = Traditional chinese boxing
I can tell you this wasn't like your garden variety Karate Kid type stuff, we use to hurt each other, bad. And my instructor was not Mr.Miyagi, he use to like going out and starting fights and if he thought you were trying to go hard against him in sparring he'd make sure you went home that night with stitches.
Kajukenbo has been watered down over the years from the way it was meant to be practiced, much of it due to students getting hurt and schools having lawsuits filed against them.
The way the art was practiced by Professor Adriano Emperado (RIP) and the original founders in Hawaii was brutally realistic. Full contact bare knuckle training and plenty of blood and broken bones were the norm. Chuck Liddell has a black belt in Kajukenbo. Doesn't he have a Kenpo tattoo on his arm or something ?
Ka = Karate/Tang Soo Do
Ju = Judo & Ju Jitsu
Ken = Kenpo
Bo = Chinese & Western Boxing
tourist - You're thinking of Mark Dacascos' father Al Dacascos ? He is not an original founder of Kajukenbo, but he is one of it's most famous practitioners.
show needed a bill duff
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Chuck Liddell has a black belt in Kajukenbo. Doesn't he have a Kenpo tattoo on his arm or something ?
Thanks for the info. I knew that Chuck Liddell did a variant of Kajukenbo called "Hawaiian Kempo," which is John Hackleman's style. According to Chuck's book, it's all the strikes and fighting techniques of kajukenbo with some conditioning added. You can see it on that tat on his shoulder, "The Pit: Hawaiian Kempo."
Earlier, Chuck did a karate style called "Koei-Kan," that's the tat on his head.
It's all in his book... which I happened to have next to the computer :) I really liked Fight Quest.
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