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Moh (Moo) Kempo |
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The history of Moh Kempo & Grand Master Olaf E. Simon is long and sometimes contradictory. This webpage is dedicated to researching and displaying truthful information about this man and his style.
The style Moh (Moo) Kempo, like most Martial Arts taught today in North America, is a blend of different MA styles, some traditional and others more combative. This includes elements of Kung-Fu, Kempo, Karate and hand to hand combat. Most people would argue that these are all the same things: Unarmed combat is Karate, which is part of Kempo which is another name for Kung Fu. This ultimately is true, however most Martial Arts professionals would tell you there are obvious differences between them all so for the purpose of trying to define where Moh Kempo's origins are, that is about as close as we can get.
Grand Master Simon developed the Moh (Moo) Kempo system possibly with the help of several other Martial Artists including Grand Master's Edmund Parker & Stan Lee. One story as told by him was that when in the U.S. in the sixties he and several other Masters were training and sharing their knowledge and ideas amongst each other on a regular basis. He (or they?), developed a style combining traditional Kempo/ Kung Fu forms and effective self defense, giving this combined system of Martial Arts the name Moh Kempo (Also known as Moo Kempo & Mo Kempo). Kempo referring to it's foundation in that style and Moh in reference to it's Chinese Kung Fu roots.
In researching this it is hard to find anyone else specifically teaching Moh Kempo other than past students of Olaf Simon and his schools, however it is very possible that over the last 40 years these various founding Masters would have modified and improved on that original system (Including Grand Master Simon), possibly giving it a different name.
Here a information on the style Mok Gar (Mo Jia)/ "Mo Family Fist". The connection to Moh Kempo may be in name only but there are other connections that could possibly be made. (without prejudice) |
