Jeff speakman kenpo karate
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Jeff speakman kenpo karate
Jeff Speakman
American actor
Jeff Speakman (born November 8, 1958) is an Americanactor and a martial artist in the art of American Kenpo and Japanese Gōjū-ryū,[1] earning black belts in each.[citation needed] Between 2008 and 2018, he was President of the International Kempo Federation.[2]
Early life
Speakman was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, where he was a springboarddiver at John Hersey High School and achieved All-American status.[3] He graduated from Missouri Southern State College.[1]
He has said that the television show Kung Fu got him interested in martial arts,[4] and he began by studying the Okinawan martial art of Gōjū-ryū until achieving black belt rank.
His instructor then recommended that if he was really intent in pursuing martial arts as a lifestyle, then he should go looking for Ed Parker, a friend of his master. Speakman sold his car to pay for the moving expenses and m