S.G.M. ED PARKER Video Compilation | Video Homenaje al SGM Ed Parker

Born in Hawaii, Parker began training in Judo at an early age and later studied boxing. During the 1940s, Parker was introduced to Kenpō by Frank Chow, who then introduced Parker to William Chow, a student of James Mitose. Parker trained with William Chow while serving in the Coast Guard and attending Brigham Young University, and in 1953 he was promoted to the rank of black belt. Parker, seeing that modern times posed new situations that were not addressed in Kenpo, adapted the art to make it more easily applicable to the streets of America. He called his adapted style American Kenpo Karate.
Parker opened the first karate school in the western United States in Provo, Utah, in 1954. By 1956, Parker opened a dojo in Pasadena, California. Ed Parker's first ever black-belt was James Ibrao. His first brown-belt student was Charles Beeder. There is controversy over whether Beeder received the first black belt awarded by Parker. Beeder's son has stated for the record that his father's black belt came after Ed Parker had moved to California. The other black belts in chronological order up to 1962 were Ben Otaké; Rich Montgomery; Mills Crenshaw, whom Parker authorized to open a school in Salt Lake City, Utah, in late 1958 (which later became the birthplace of the International Kenpo Karate Association, or IKKA); Tom Garriga; Rick Flores; Al and Jim Tracy of Tracy Kenpo; Chuck Sullivan; Mark Georgantas; John McSweeney; and Dave Hebler. In 1962, John McSweeney opened a school in Ireland, which prompted Parker to give control of the Kenpo Karate Association of America to the Tracy Brothers and form a new organization: the International Kenpo Karate Association.
Parker was well known for his business creativity and helped many martial artists open their own dojos. He was well known in Hollywood, where he trained several stunt men and celebrities-most notably Elvis Presley, to whom he eventually awarded a first-degree black belt in Kenpo. He left behind a few world-renowned grand masters: Al Tracy, head of the world's largest system of Kenpo; Bob White; Huk Plana; Larry Tatum; Ron Chapel; and Frank Trejo, who ran a school in California prior to his death. Parker helped Bruce Lee gain national attention by introducing him at his International Karate Championships. He served as one of Elvis Presley's bodyguard during the singer's final years. He is best known to Kenpoists as the founder of American Kenpo and is referred to fondly as the "Father of American Kenpo." He is formally referred to as Senior Grand Master of American Kenpo.
Edmund Kealoha "Ed" Parker Waipa.​ (19 de marzo de 1931 - 15 de diciembre de 1990), nacido en Honolulu, fue uno de los primeros maestros occidentales, creador y 10º Dan del kenpo-karate moderno, famoso en EEUU por haber iniciado en las artes marciales a artistas y cantantes de la talla de Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Warren Beatty, Robert Wagner, entre otros. Murió en Honolulu de un ataque al corazón el 15 de diciembre de 1990.
Fue bien conocido por su creatividad para los negocios. Ayudó a muchos artistas marciales a abrir su dojo, entrenó a especialistas de Hollywood y a celebridades como Elvis Presley (que alcanzó el grado de 8º Dan en agosto de 1974), ayudó a Bruce Lee a promocionarse permitiendo que hiciera una exhibición el 2 de agosto de 1964 en su campeonato internacional de karate en Long Beach y más tarde en el mismo campeonato en 1967 (los campeonatos internacionales de Long Beach de Ed Parker fueron el medio por el que muchas estrellas marciales se dieron a conocer como Mike Stone, Chuck Norris, Steve Sanders, Joe Lewis o Benny Urquidez). En los últimos años de vida de Elvis Presley, Ed Parker fue su guardaespaldas y trabajó como especialista y actor en el cine, en películas como Dimension 5 (1966), The money Jungle (1968), Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978), Seabo (1978), Kill the Golden Goose (1979), Seven (1979), o Curse of the Pink Panther (1983) además de en varios episodios para distintas series de TV. Fue instructor del artista marcial y actor Jeff Speakman. Además ha sido autor de varios libros, a saber, Kenpo Karate: Law of the Fist and the Empty Hand, Secrets of Chinese Karate, Ed Parker's Guide to the Nunchaku, Ed Parker's Kenpo Karate Accumulative Journal: International Kenpo Karate Association, Inside Elvis, Ed Parker's Infinite Insights into Kenpo, Vols. 1-5, The Woman's Guide to Self Defense, The Zen of Kenpo y Ed Parker's Encyclopedia of Kenpo.

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Ed Parker had all the grace of an elephant but good salesman. Thanks for him introducing bruce lee to a big audience at the long beach international tournament during the 60s.

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Met Ed Parker when he came over to the UK to talk about Elvis he was a really nice person. By the way Great clips of parker

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Great man, great master, genius

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This video brings back a lot of memories

[@deejin25]

In the I love Lucy episode he was barely capable of moving, the older he got the better his moved got. In the Speakman period towards the end of his life he was fantastic, but if he had bothered with kicking and conditioning he would have lived longer and reached greater heights.

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Lucille ball cracks me up

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9:23 this dude was kinda clean ....not gonna lie

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Why is there not a movie made about him ?

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Hes not really a street fighter and he cnt really fight .

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I guess at this point we'll never know

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@sluana1 many people have challenge him during his time but he's afraid of losing the match and suffer the same faith as the late 'arrogant ' & corky Bruce Lee ?

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What was it like being around him in those early years. You must have witnessed some of the 1940s and 1950s to be able to say that. Tell us.