Hello, Go to site: Universal Kempo Karate School Association. You will get a review of the system, who the Professor Martin T. Buell is. (note: I was their when the picture of him was taken in the grass's), It was at a black belt testing in the hills above Pearl Harbor.
You will like Universal Kempo Karate systems. Is has it all, stand up fighting,takedowns,grappling, grounds training,weapons training (sticks,nunchukes,knives,guns, and bo.)
Each year there is an Annual Seminar, for Universal Instructors/students only blue belt and up, in Las Vegas where all the Instructor/students learn NEW stuffs and review old material too.
Our system (like above said) came from Kajikenpo....mix of karate,judo,jujitsu,chinese boxing,tang soo do.
Just to give you idea...we need to learn 21 chokes hold, and escapes too,
Each level learns a few new things, escapes and controls, and etc.
Each school pretty much teach the same thing....so if you go from one school, you can tranfer very easy.
If traveling to other places...your Instructor can contact the school in those areas for you to train at. (even for a vacation)..if you want to experience training for one day or more.
Our Professor is a very humble person, his wife is his right hand person.
Best thing to do: Is visit the schools, most will let you train w/o signing up right away. (we do this at our branch).
Most Kempo/ Kenpo systems are very familiar in styles.
Please take a look? Each class can be very different because there is so many things to learn.
Aloha