Hello everyone! I recently started training at a studio on the west coast but I will be moving back to Florida in about a year. I hate knowing that I may potentially have to walk away from this style so would anyone happen to know of any Kajukenbo studios in the Spring Hill/Tampa, Fl area? If not, what would be the best to transition to? Thanks in advance! 🙏

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New to San Diego

Can someone point me to some good Kakukenbo schools in the San Diego area.

Preferably one where I can compete occasionally and has good training.

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I’ve seen enough posts about how Kaj needs to modernize and everyone for the most part agreeing that it needs to modernize. Give me your ideal Kaj; Forms/No Forms, More Judo, fitness requirements, competition requirements etc.

My off the cuff idea:

• No Forms
• Half the number of knife and club techniques.
• Takedown Counters
• Fitness requirements for belts
• Increased ground game

If a purple belt in BJJ was able to submit a 9th degree black belt in Kajukenbo, is studying Kajukenbo giving students a false sense of confidence?

Kajukenbo supposedly is about always evolving, discarding obsolete techniques while adopting new ones. However, the dojo I was a part of taught a few grappling techniques, rear naked choke and a few arm bars, at most twice a month. So, kajukenbo’s ground game (at least in my dojo) was practically nonexistent.

I have a background in Shotokan,/Judo/Aikido, and have always been pretty confident in my fighting ability (in the past have been in multiple fights/violent encounters and my martial arts skills have always been decent, but that episode gives me zero confidence if I have a real life encounter with a BJJ practitioner.

I’m curious as to all of your thoughts?

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"Those who came before us deserve respect. It’s a hard world and they’ve survived so far. But when taken to an extreme, the martial art expression of respect becomes something akin to cult worship. This can most easily be seen by watching students of no-touch knockout masters who don’t want their instructor to look bad in public, and blindly trust them to the point of self-deception and delusion."

"To see how deeply traditional martial artists care about giving the “appropriate” amount of respect to instructors, take a look at any internet conversation regarding rank and titles in the martial arts."

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I think it should. I have no problem with religion in and of itself but not everyone is and to quite Piandao from Avatar The Last Airbender, ''knowledge of the arts belongs to us all''. And I think that would be better embodied by not having any preference for certain religious beliefs over others. We aren't forced to say it in my school but we still bow for it and for people who have other beliefs that still might be an issue.

Thoughts?

Any Kaju schools in Long Island?