Hikari Martial Arts Blog

KAN SHU KENPO Review Writing a review about Kan Shu Kenpo is a source of great interest and joy for me. We can define Kan Shu Kenpo as a style that, on the one hand, incorporates technical material mainly derived from “American Kenpo” and, on the other hand, concepts and Katas that are mainly derived from “Chinese Kenpo.” This provides us with a very interesting combination of Japanese, Okinawan, and Chinese elements in terms of the origin of the technical content, which makes perfect sense, since this system was founded by John Cozatt and Christopher Fournier, both students of Diana Schmoyer, who was a student of John Weininger, who was a student of Dr. Daniel K. Pai. If we pay attention to Dr. Pai's learning from Richard Takamoto, a student of Emperado, who was a student of Chow, who in turn was a student of Mitose, and Takamoto also learned from Okazaki, a big name in Japanese Jujutsu, Pai himself also learned from Okazaki, and Pai also had connections and training with Mr. Ed...