Dragon Kenpo

Dragon Kenpo is an off-shoot of American Kenpo (also called Kenpo Karate). Dragon Kenpo was developed by Ed Hutchison, who trained under Jay T. Will, a student of Ed Parker.

Ed Hutchison felt there were several problems with modern martial arts schools. He realized that many schools used sparring, forms training and testing fees as means to prolong the students training and get more money out of the students. So he eliminated them and provided a system that people could study from home through the use of video tapes.

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Ed Hutchison retired from teaching Dragon Kenpo in 1999 when he purchased the North American Boxing Council (N.A.B.C.) and became its president, but some of his students have carried on the development of Dragon Kenpo. Rodney M. Lacey is the Director of the International Dragon Kenpo Association, and was granted the title of 8th degree Black Belt by Ed Hutchison.
Ron Pfeiffer is the Director of Membership of the IDKA, and also teaches Dragon Kenpo in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin as well as around the world with his online program.
Additionally, other students teach Dragon Kenpo by itself or integrated with other systems.

The original impulse from Dragon Kenpo that was started by Ed Hutchison continues today with practitioners continuing to both practice the original Dragon Kenpo material and to continue the process of the evolution of Kenpo through their own research and study of the martial arts and continually refining the methods used in Dragon Kenpo. There are many groups that preserve the original Dragon Kenpo material along with including evolved Dragon Kenpo material drawing from JKD Concepts, Kali, Muay Thai and other arts in their teachings. There are a couple of Dragon Kenpo blogs available online that turn up in an online search and there are also a couple Dragon Kenpo discussion groups in yahoo for anyone interested.

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