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 ...

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 ...

Students of Craig’s Kempo Karate Academy learn three things as they work through belt colors: discipline, structure and tradition. But it is those same principles, as applied to the Watertown business ...

HAMDEN — The Academy of Kempo Martial Arts recently held a Special Recognition Evening to honor their “Academic Achievers.” “Throughout the year I collect report cards from our students to monitor ...

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, ...

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 ...

HONOLULU (AP) - Ku’ulei Nitta punches, kicks and grapples with her parents on a regular basis. She’ll tumble with her mother, Patricia, and trade punches with her father, Bruce. But she’s not a ...