Gōjū-ryū

So I'm really dedicated to that thinking and dedicated to sharing that experience that I had personally studying directly from a master like Ed Parker.

And then of course, as I mentioned, I studied directly with another master prior to that, Lou Angel in Japanese Goju-Ryu.

So I've had an amazing, an amazing, experience for decades.

I'm into my 46th year in martial arts.

So it's an inverse relationship.

It's a yin-yang sort of a situation, if you will.

But having that groundedness In the traditional martial arts, it's what I learned from Lou Angel and in Japanese Goju-Ryu.

See, I carried that forward into Kenpo.

The...

See, I think the problem with me with the style of karate that I was studying, which was Goju, they never would tell you what the katas meant.

So when you would be doing the moves, you would never know what the actual fight application.

For me, all I ever cared about is I wanted to fight.

It's very forward and back.

Yeah.

Whereas Goju was more circular.

I still, I don't know.

When I came to Kempo, it was in the summer of 1983, after I graduated from college.

in Joplin, Missouri, where I studied Japanese Goju-Ryu under Lou Angel, who back in the day was good friends with Parker.

So he sent a letter of recommendation with me, and I moved to LA to study Kempo.

At that time, that was Kempo 1.0. Then Parker evolved it to Kempo 2.0. And that's always been the thinking.

Shotokan.

Goju-ryu.

Oichi-ryu.

Yeah.