Kajukenbo

[Deleted member 34973]

So, there is a Kajukenbo school in this beautiful place I live called the Gorge and I have been finding myself interested in training and gaining experience in a different system, after years of Korean Karate, I thought it would be interesting.

I have already met the Head Instructor, who seems like a nice guy. I discussed a class and was invited to come anytime, which I do plan on attending.

I am looking for some feedback, since I have no real knowledge of the system. I have watched a few vids but, martial talk is where the best answers are.

Does anyone have any personal experience with system? Their method of teaching, class structure etc..?

 

[Blindside]

Columbia Gorge? You might have to be a little more specific.

 

[Tames D]

Kajukenbo is an excellent fighting system. Contact John Bishop with any questions. He is the man.
JOHN BISHOP'S KAJUKENBO HOME PAGE - JOHN BISHOP

 

[Blindside]

I am looking for some feedback, since I have no real knowledge of the system. I have watched a few vids but, martial talk is where the best answers are.

Does anyone have any personal experience with system? Their method of teaching, class structure etc..?

Kajukenbo is one of those systems that is more like a hybrid swarm of subsystems and it would be really really difficult to pigeonhole into a particular structure. I realize this isn't terribly helpful. I studied with two different lineages under the Kajukenbo-Kenpo system and found it to be pretty good. Like anything else the instructor is more important than the system, a bad instructor can muck up a perfectly good system.

 

[Touch Of Death]

In reality, it is hit and miss. It might be a good school; it might not. I have tried two kaju kenbo schools, liked one, hated the other.

 

[Deleted member 34973]

Columbia Gorge? You might have to be a little more specific.

It is an area on the Columbia River in Washington and Oregon. About 60 miles from Portland Oregon.

 

[JR 137]

Like everything else, it depends on the teachers and the students. I saw the Kajukenbo episode of Fight Quest when I was looking to re-start MA training. I looked up a local Kajukenbo school immediately. Absolutely nothing like the show. Granted, it was TV and the instructors were legendary in Kajukenbo, but my local school was awful when I observed classes on 2 occasions. There's great, awful and everything in between in every art (as long as there's more than 1 or 2 schools of that art).

Visiting the local school is the only way to find out if it's a good fit.