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Shintai kempo
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Shintai Kempo is a martal art formed in 1994 by Tommy Kedja. It has influences from both Shaolin Kung fu and Shorinji Kempo. Shintai kempo is a school in traditional martal arts. Accourding to the legend Drauma came to China from India to teach martal arts - Kalari Payat - that later became what we know as Shaolin Kung fu. Shorinji Kempo (Japanese for Shaolin Kung fu) was founded by So Doshin in 1947. Shintai Kempo history Style founder, Tommy Kedja, was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1958. At the age of 8 his dad Peder made sure that both Tommy and his older brother Roger started practicing judo. Peder had just opend Gotlands (Swedish island in the Baltic Sea) first Budo-club. Here Tommy trained karate under the training of his father until he met a Kung fu master in the year 1980. He then practiced kung fu for two years. When a Shorinji Kempo club opend in Visby (largest city on Gotland) Tommy got so interested that he decided to practice Shorinji Kempo instead. It brought him to Japan in the year 1984 where he went to study Shorinji Kempo at Hombu (the Shorinji headquarters). During a visit at hombu tommy got a revelation, he dreamed of magnetism och leadership. The message was that he was supposed to become a leader and create his own style in the future. Once back in Sweden, Tommy continued his Shorinji Kempo combined with classic Ju jutsu and discovered that Shorinji Kempo were missing something. Tommy now started to develop a new style by combining his knowledge from traditional Karate, Judo, Shorinji Kempo, Kung fu and classic Ju jutsu. The result was Shintai Kempo, a self-defence system based on hard (Goho) and soft (Juho) techniques. In 1994 tommy opend his first Shintai Kempo club. The club requested and got in to the Swedish Budo Federation and World Kobudo Federation. The Swedish Shintai Kempo Federation started in July, 2000. Shintai Kempo has a start but no ending. Slowly it spreads... Shintai Kempo schools exist in: Eskilstuna, Sweden Linköping, Sweden Visby, Sweden Miami, USA Norrköping, Sweden 
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