- Kai Fu
Kai Fu is a martial art that was developed in the
Hawaiian Islands in the 1930s. Kai Fu is derrived from the Japanese martial artJu-jitsu which came to Hawaii with the surge of Japanese immigrants in the late 1860s. The local Hawaiians already had a martial art calledOhana Lua , which when combined with the new found Ju-jitsu created the martial art Kai Fu as we know it today. Kai Fu came to the main-landUnited States afterWorld War II when the sailors stationed atPearl Harbor returned home. The sailors had been taught Kai Fu by the native Hawaiians as a gesture of friendship.Composition
According to
Dr. James Ketelaar , Professor in History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations at theUniversity of Chicago , when observed, Kai Fu is much more similar to Japanese Ju-jitsu than the Hawaiian Ohana Lua. In fact, Kai fu uses the same rank belt system that Ju-jitsu andJudo have used. The belt colors in ascending order are white, yellow, orange, green, blue, brown and black.External links
*http://www.olohe.com
*http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/japan/MartialArts/Japanese_Martial_Arts.html
*http://ealc.uchicago.edu/faculty/index.shtml
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