BRUCE ASATO / [email protected] Ku'ulei Nitta and her father, Bruce Nitta, during a training session at a kempo karate class in Pearl City. BRUCE ASATO / [email protected] Ku'ulei ...

When Ron Gentolizo gets done with his nine-to-five job at GE Commercial Finance in Eden Prairie he trades in his dress slacks and shirt for a traditional martial arts uniform called a Gi and gets ...

Rockland’s Mark DiNino knows a lot about building self-confidence, especially in children. A seventh-degree black belt, DiNino is the founder of American Kempo Karate Academy based in East Weymouth, ...

Kick, jab, punch! Not having any formal martial arts training, I’ll admit that checking out Martin Buell’s kempo karate class was a bit intimidating, but upon arrival, I was welcomed into the group ...

After four-and-a-half years taking Kenpo Karate classes at the Windsor Recreation Center, three 14-year-olds have received their junior black belts. Trevor Overton, Wil Francis and Glenn Gibson ...

I TRIED NOT to grab, placing my hand on my partner’s head, instead, for a self-defense technique called clutching feathers. I was next, and I hoped my partner would be nice as he pretended to hammer ...