Glossary of Terms
Aikido
Aikido is considered to be a non-aggressive style, as the Aikido student does not instigate the attack. The basic principle of Aikido is "Do not fight force with force". Aikido uses very few punches and kicks. Instead, the attackers force is redirected into throws, locks and restraining techniques. Size, weight, age and physical strength differences of the opponents play only a small role, as the skilled Aikido practitioner is able to redirect the attackers energy, keeping his attacker in a constant of unbalance.
Bodhidharma
Bodhidharma, Chinese Puti Dami, Japanese Bodai Darma were pseudonyms translated word-for-word through the theory of the enlighted. Bodhidharma was the third son of the rich South Indian Raja Sugandha. According to legend the Indian monk, Bodhidharma, created the foreform of different martial arts in the Chinese monastery, Shaolin ( provision Honan ), around 530 years B.C. . For nine years he meditated in a cave above the monastery, sitting in front of a stone wall. Impressed by this strength of will, the Shaolin monks chose him as their teacher. Bodhidharma taught the monks physical exercises for physical and psychological strengthening and founded "Shaolin Boxing".
Chuan Fa
Chuan Fa (Way of the Fist) was developed from 1965 to 1968 in Hawaii. Prof. Emperado combined Kajukenbo ( hard, powerful techniques ) with the Tumpai (long, soft movements - Central way). With his students, Sigung Al Dacascos and Sigung Al de la Cruz he developed a combination of Northern and Southern styles of the Si Lum Kung Fu and the Kajukenbo system. This effective combination has been developed for illusion and speed. Therefore the name changed from Tum Pai to Chuan Fa, as it was no longer pure Kajukenbo or Tun Pai but a new method which contained new techniques of beginning and training. Chuan Fa has been made popular from Sigung by the order of Prof. Emperado in California (1965 - 1968). This method is called Kajukenbo Chuan Fa. As a result, Sigung Al Dacascos developed Wun Hop Kuen Do in 1968. Many of the techniques and forms currently taught have been developed in the Chuan Fa-time; it was the preliminary stage to the Wun Hop Kuen Do of today.
Eskrima
There are many styles in Kali, Arnis and Eskrima and all of them can be subvided in Northern, Southern and Central styles of the Phillippines. It is interesting to know that two students, who represent the same style, can be totally different in their movements, approaches and training methods.
Kajukenbo
Kajukenbo is a hybrid martial art that combines karate, judo, jujutsu, kenpo, and chinese boxing. It was invented in 1947 in Oahu, Hawaii, at the Palama Settlements, to deal with local crime, as well as to help the people defend themselves from U.S. Navy sailors who would drink and fight with the locals. The inventors were Sijo ("founder") Adriano Emperado, Peter Young Yil Choo, Joe Holck, Frank Ordonez, and Clarence Chang, who called themselves the Black Belt Society..
Karate
Karate or karate-do is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands from indigenous fighting methods and Chinese kenpo. It is primarily a striking art using punching, kicking, knee and elbow strikes. Open-handed techniques, grappling, locks, restraints, throws, and vital point strikes are taught in some styles. A karate practitioner is called a karateka.
Martial Arts
Martial arts are systems of codified practices and traditions of training for combat. While they maybe studied for various reasons, martial arts share a single objective: to defeat a person physically or to defend oneself from physical threat. In addition, some martial arts are linked to spiritual or religious beliefs/philosophies such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism or Shinto while others have their own spiritual or non-spiritual code of honour.
Prof.William
D.S. Chow was one of the leading men in Hawaii. Then came Master Teacher, Adriano D. Emperado, the founder of the Kajukenbo Self Defense Institute. From the understanding that the Americans fight differently and harder, a lot of techniques had to be corrected. As a result, the Kajukenbo style arose. For the Kajukenbo style to be valid, the stress is on the physical strength in connection with speed, power and perfection.
Professor Jiang Hao-Quan
He is a famous contemporary martial artist who has over 60 years of martial arts teaching experience, and has devoted his whole life to Chinese and Western boxing and the classical weapons.
Tae kwon do
Taekwondo is a Korean martial art and Chinese combat sport. Taekwondo is the national sport of South Korea. It is also regarded as the world's most popular martial art in terms of number of practitioners, and sparring, or kyeorugi, is an official Olympic sporting event. In Korean hanja, tae means to trample with the foot; kwon means fist; and do means way, taekwondo is loosely translated as to the foot and hand way.
The German Wun Hop Kuen Do Federation
When Sigung Al Dacascos came to Germany in 1975 he planned to place the organizational part of his Wun Hop Kuen Do Kung Fu style with a registered association. In February 1978 this plan matured and the German Wun Hop Kuen Do Kung Fu Association was founded.
World Taekwondo Federation
The World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) is the International Federation (IF) member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the competition events of the martial art of Taekwondo. It was established in South Korea on May 28, 1973, at its inaugural meeting held at the Kukkiwon with participation of 35 representatives from the world.
Wun Hop Kuen Do
One of the goals of this organization is to further develop this expression of Martial arts by not limiting its concepts and practicalities but to absorb the usefulness of any and every form of self-defense to which effectiveness, realism and simplicity is further enhanced.