--- In kajukenboworldwide@yahoogroups.com, "Burt Vickers"
<burtvickers@...> wrote:
>
> --- In kajukenboworldwide@yahoogroups.com, "norsewolf7777"
> <norsewolf7777@> wrote:
> >
> > I am a martial artist. I hold a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. I
> also
> > have distance learning rank in Dragon Kenpo from Indiana. I have
> just
> > recently discovered Kajukenbo and was so impressed with the style.
> My
> > field gave me a tape of Purple belt Kajukenbo and I and my family
> > started to practice it. But why when you say your studying
> Kajukenbo,
> > you can't say you style is now Kajukenbo? I consider my style now
> > Kajukenbo and I reminded people that Korean karate is part of
> > Kajukenbo. Tang Soo Do is korean. Can someone help me with this
> and
> > answer why?
> > Thank you
> >
> I feel I can respond to your comments: All martial artists feel a
> great sense of pride with in there martial art. All of us have a
> great sense of Accomplishments in what we study.
> When you study Kajukenbo, you're not just learning a martial art you
> re learning how to deal with Life. Everyone that has struggled threw
> the Hard training in Kajukenbo creates a personal awareness of the
> system. This is only created by years of hard hits and blood left on
> the floor. When you go threw something like that you don't want
> others to claim the status of the art without being true to It.
> Meaning You want them to graduate threw the ranks before you can
> claim ownership of the Art of Kajukembo. Or Calling it your Art while
> training in other system as well.
>
> I was a Black-belt in Tae Kwon Do before I found the Kajukembo
> system. When I found my professor I no longer claimed rank status in
> the other art. I became true only to Kajukembo and only wanted to
> train in this system. Because I wanted to master the art. But what I
> found out is I learned how to Master myself.
>
> Sigung Burt Vickers
> 6th degree Black belt
> Kajukembo Self Defense System




Sigung Vickers is perfectly correct! Kajukembo is the most special
thing in my life and I will continue to learn and grow as a martial
artist and as a man. It has taught me more than good, strong, low
stances in katas, or lightning fast sidekicks and fackfists in
sparring or the original aplahbets or my instructor's scarecrow drills
(teaching vital points and vulnerabilities to the body) and Grand
Master Peralta's counters and tricks.... Kajukembo has saved me... it
has saved me from myself and others. It is a great workout, it teaches
you trust in your classmates and instructors, raises your
self-confidence and makes you prepared for the unknown. As Sigung
James Cox always said of Mr. Peralta, "it is better to know it and
never need it than need it and never have known it." When you spend
and hour doing trick 1 or 30 minutes in a horse or squatting stance
while your instructor talks on the phone or at your black belt testing
breaking your nose and laying in a pool of blood... you become more
than classmates....you become brothers. I spend most of my days at the
dojo from 4-11 Monday through Friday, at tournaments on Saturday,
church then lunch then more training on Sunday. Sigung Cox and Sifu
Claude Lawson always have told me "you get out of it what you put into
it." No other system has gone through the pain that we have. When you
say you are training in Kajukembo, there is an automatic connection
and loyalty and respect and brotherhood because we know deep down what
hell each other has been through; not to be cocky but... thats what
makes us better than everyone else.... we were America's first mixed
martial art and we continue to adapt and change and make ourselves
better by gaining new knowledge and keeping and improving the old (a
perfect example of the balance of opposites, aka the ying and the
yang. you have to have both to be well rounded and thats what
Kajukembo gives you... traditional and new katas, amazing self-defense
concepts that allow you to be creative and brainstorm and find your
own identity in drills, sport karate, weapon techniques, etc...) Keep
up the hard work and good luck... stay with Kajukembo and you will
only improve, as a martial artist and a person. Be true to you and
your worldwide brothers of Kajukembo. Mahalo and Aloha.