KaJuKenBo

Well oldman pretty much described what kajukenbo is about. To be more specific it teaches several karate kicks such as the front kick, step shuffle side kick, roundhouse kicks, and so on. My instructors usually advise not to do high kicks to the head because that would be like punching someone in the foot so they focus on low kicks not to high above the belt.

The style also teaches boxing techniques like the cross, jab, hook, uppercut, along with elbow strikes. This style is very much like kickboxing except it has some more grappling moves like joint locks and some dirty tactics like pokes, and troat strikes.

Hope that answers your question.

i just have a quetion for oldman: how is Tang Soo Do concidered Karate? From my understanding, Tang Soo Do is a Korean art where as Karate is an Okinawa art.

Tang Soo Do is almost identical to Shotokan Karate. That's where it comes from, Okinawan and Japanese Karate, just with higher kicks and some other minor differences.

Well it's kind of like Apples. You got yer "Granny Smith" and yer "Macintosh". Both are apples but they have different characteristics and flavors. Both the words Kara and Tang can refer to "China" China hand way. Funikoshi used "Kara" so as to mean "empty" hand. Karate Do + empty hand way.

Looks like a nice place, are you going for marine biology or related?

Non-contact kickboxing......hmmmmmm very interesting

Kajukenbo, like many other styles, has certain requirements like forms and pre-arranged responses to different types of attacks. When you have to perform these then I'd say kicks may show up anywhere from 20-40% of the time and they're usually aimed at the groin or higher.

Jujitsu, of the Japanese variety, is used for joint locks and judo appears as sweeps mainly. Boxing has some strikes taken from it like mentioned previously.

How much you use kicks and boxing combinations in 'street' fighting is up to you. A simplistic view of street fighting at my school means that you come up with the techniques that you want to string together in response to uke's attack. You keep up your attack until uke is curled up on the floor and you've got control. Kicks are usually to the groin or lower when uke is standing and then to many other targets when uke is on the ground.

Kajukenbo doesn't have ground fighting as part of its curriculum, however, it's up to the teacher whether or not it's taught at the school. Kajukenbo isn't like Shotokan, for example, in the sense that you can go to any Shotokan school and expect the same curriculum to be taught. (That's an assumption on my part about traditional martial arts.) Kajukenbo encourages the practitioner to keep what's useful to them, modify what isn't and incorporate other things that are useful. Your instructor may or may not have incorporated ground fighting.

Sparring is continuous and is usually in the light to medium contact range. That's really up to your partners (and school policy) how hard they want to be hit. You're welcome to use any level of kicking and boxing combinations that you find effective. You may even be able to talk your partner into transitioning from stand up fighting to ground fighting.

Thanks for the info, Kaju7.

Schanne: I am going to major in Global Studies & Maritime Affairs, and probably minor in law, though I may change that minor to some type of engineering. And don't worry about the kickboxing...it's kickboxing workouts without sparring...Thai pads, focus mitts, heavy bag, etc...or at least that's how it'll be if I teach there! To be totally honest, I'd like to see if I can persuade the club to become competitive, heh heh...