Originally posted by John Bishop
I don't know how much contact Mr. Parker had with Lau Bun. I was under the impression that most of the Chinese elements that Mr. Parker adopted came from James Wing Woo. Woo was also rumored to have been the main contributor to the "Secrets of Chinese Karate" book.
Lau Bun did have a big influence on the development of the Chuan Fa branch of Kajukenbo. Sijo Emperado credits him with being one of his instructors in the 60-70s. He was also one of the members of the Hawaii Chinese Physical Culture Association, who recognized Sijo Emperado as the creator of Kajukenbo, and gave him the rank of 10th degree.
The Hawaii Chinese Phisical Culture Association was the first kung fu organization outside of China.
Hey Big John.
Actually Parker spent a lot of time with a lot of people. Ark Wong, Lau Bun, James W. Woo, James H. Woo, Tiny Lefiti, and of course Sijo Emperado who gave Parker significant rank when he no longer would accept it from Chow, but mostly Ark Wong and Tiny Lefiti and Jimmy Woo in total. In fact Jimmy Woo actually worked for Parker teaching Tai Chi in his school for a time. Then he created and opened the Chinese Martial Arts Assoc. on Hollywood Blvd down the street from Oshima's school, while Jimmy H. opened San Soo.
The arts were from Five Animal, Splashing Hands, Tai CHi, San Soo, Hun Gar, Choy Li Fut, Muk Ga, Chin na, Chi Gung, and more. They always and I was told, "the Chinese Arts are the same only the training method changes."
As far as I know there is no video of Parker and Lau Bun. Ed Parker got his Dit Da Jow from Ark Wong who always had a pot cooking in the corner of the school. Ark Wong was about 10 minutes from Parker's house, and around the corner from his favorite LA Chinatown Restaurant "Won Kok" so he spent a lot of time at Ark Wongs,

along with Lefiti who was there for a time and even Danny Inosato trained there for a short period.