In Hawaiian, Ohana means Family

Ohana Kenpo means Family Kenpo, or Kenpo Family.

This site is a "Family" of schools who teach the Ed Parker System of Kenpo.

The purpose of this web site is to offer a web presence to all schools who teach the Ed Parker System of Kenpo and especially to those schools who have no means of supporting a web site of their own.

As is the case in any family, the family of schools on this web site will differ to lesser and greater degrees. No two schools will necessarily teach the same curriculum or have the same standard for achieving rank.

What each school should have in common is the sincere desire to teach the Ed Parker System of Kenpo. Although there is no definitive litmus test for what "is" or "is not" Ed Parker's Kenpo, the basics, techniques, forms, sets, etc. on this site accurately represent the Ed Parker System of Kenpo as outlined in Mr. Parker's five volume book series Infinite Insights into Kenpo.

Schools who have viewed these pages may request to have their school listed or removed, based on the extent to which they agree or disagree with what is written here.

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We make no claim here as to which variation of Kenpo is best, more authentic, or state of the art. That would be like arguing which is a better form of transportation - a car, a boat, or an airplane. The answer always starts with "that depends."

On the other hand, the basic curriculum to be found on this site is Ed Parker's Kenpo, the name of the techniques and forms are unchanged nor is their basic application. In other words the technique Five Swords, by any other name is still five swords, but if one were to change the name back to Five Count or to Seven Swords, it would only add confusion when a student visited or tried to relocate to that school.

Mr. Parker worked for many years so that upon his passing we would be left with a set of standard practice manuals to learn from. When the technique names are changed the techniques themselves are changed. Maybe for the better . . . maybe for the worse, but if you are to change the names of the techniques or the forms, then alter them significantly, should you still call it Ed Parker's Kenpo?

Now, several great Kenpo instructors have chosen to change the Ed Parker curriculum into one of their own. A few of the most notable are Ron Chapel, Chuck Sullivan and Jeff Speakman. This does not mean they no longer teach "Ed Parker's" Kenpo. These men "are" Ed Parker's Kenpo - each personally trained by Ed Parker himself. In that they have chosen to reformulate the system into one they feel is a better curriculum for teaching the art, in no way diminishes the value of their instruction.

The schools listed on this site may and may not use the name "Ed Parker's" Kenpo, but let's not judge to harshly - after all if Mr. Parker were as judgmental as some of us, some of us would never have shared a mat with him.