CQB KAJUKENBO CLUB

Wear clothes you can get wet in and maybe bring a dry outfit also.

Class will be held at HQ as normal, at the regular times.

‘Every once in a while we get questions about whether a Kajukenbo instructor is legitimate.

Even though Kajukenbo is practiced worldwide, it is still small enough that most instructors are known to someone here at the Cafe.
And the majority of black belts in the system are listed on one main Kajukenbo Family Tree kept by Grandmaster Philip Gelinas, a member of the Cafe‘s staff.

All the Kajukenbo schools listed here at the Cafe have been verified to be operated by a legitimate Kajukenbo black belt.  If the school is not operated by a black belt, it is listed here as a “training group”, and the group & group leader is under the direct supervision of a legitimate Kajukenbo black belt.
If you have questions about the legitimacy of a Kajukenbo instructor, the easiest way to get answers is to ask them.  Most instructors will be glad to tell you who they trained under, and produce black belt certificates.  They should also be able to tell you their lineage all the way up to Sijo Emperado.  That information can usually be verified thru our family tree.
If the instructor your looking at is evasive or will not tell you about his/her background, then feel free to make inquiries in this section.
Hopefully this section will help prospective students avoid investing their time, efforts, and hard earned money in someone who’s just a conman out for himself.

Some may ask what defines a legitimate school?
A legitimate school would be one run by a Kajukenbo black belt, who’s lineage is traceable back to Sijo Emperado or another Kajukenbo founder.  Some branch schools may be run by a color belt, who is directly supervised by his/her black belt instructor.

Who is NOT a legitimate Kajukenbo black belt?
Someone who has promoted themselves to black belt.  Someone who was promoted by his/her students.  Or, someone who has been promoted to black belt by a organization that has no ranking Kajukenbo black belts on the promotional board.
Sijo Emperado always made it very clear that a individual Kajukenbo black belt can only promote someone up to 1 rank below their own.

Although many in Kajukenbo do not support the practice of cross ranking martial artists from other systems into Kajukenbo, it is still the Kajukenbo instructor’s right to promote who he/she chooses.
You may not respect these promotions, but they are legitimate, and the persons giving and receiving them will have to accept the consequences of their actions.’   — Professor John Bishop on the Kajukenbo Cafe

There are 2 books about a Private Investigator –who happens to be a Kajukenbo black belt– by author “John Truman Wolfe”

I am only 1/2 way through the first book “Mind Games” which is somewhat interesting but the plot seems to have some weird mind control stuff going on.  I was hoping it would get better and the mind control stuff would be explained rationally.  However,  I never got around to finishing the book.  Something was …odd about the story that I could not put my finger on it until tonight.

1. Bruce Wiseman, under nome de plume John Truman Wolfe, is a successful author of both fiction and non-fiction works [link]

2. Kendra Wiseman is one of the founders of Exscientologykids.com, a website that offers “non-judgmental support for those who are still in Scientology, discussion and debate for those who’ve already left, and a plethora of easy-to-understand references for the curious.” She is the daughter of Bruce Wiseman, president of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a Scientology-sponsored organization opposed to the practice of psychiatry. — Wikipedia

Mind Games (Tom McKenna book #1)

The Gift (Tom McKenna book #2)

I am now in no hurry to finish the first book and I have no plans to buy the second.

Ms. Joanna Bennett told me an amusing anecdote about a Hapkido guy where she works, about Ron Jones’ size.

Apparently this guy wanted to show her his wrist grab release.  Ask her about it sometime…