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SANDOKAN
it. There were many schools in Kenpo but only
a few that taught Ed Parker’s system. Luckily,
I was very fortunate to find one near me so I
began my training.
Les Kiersnowski After a few years of training in Kenpo, at one of
the kenpo camps I was introduced to Grand-
Fotografía: Heide Clouse master Remy Presas so I began training
in Kenpo and Modern Arnis. While training
I started my training in the martial arts in 1971 in both of these arts, I was then introduced
with a traditional Japanese Kyokushin style. to the Bando system and its Founder Dr. Gi.
So I began training in all three systems at the
When I started I automatically fell in love with same time which did not leave me much time
the art as well as its traditions, philosophy and for anything else. But as I stated previously,
conditioning so at that point I knew I was going martial arts is my life.
to dedicate my life to martial arts. I trained in
Kyokushin nonstop six or seven days a week While in doing that for many years, I thought
until 1979 at which time I moved to the United I had a full understanding of how each basic
States and settled in Philadelphia, PA. Upon move and technique works in all the arts I had
settling I have extensively searched for Kyo- been training. But there was still something
kushin dojos – the closest one I could find was missing. So I began an eleven year long re-
2 hours away in New York City so I began my search study in human anatomy and tried to
travels and continued training in Kyokushin. find the complete understanding of the arts by
using science. I discovered that search for full
After a while, I met a martial artist from Phil- understanding of the human body led me to ki-
adelphia who was a Judo instructor so I sus- netic energy and kinetic movements so I start-
pended my travels to New York and started ed researching both anatomy and kinesiology.
training in Kodokan Judo. While I was training Understanding and knowing how the human
in Judo and competing nationwide, during my body works pointed me towards physics so
travels I was introduced to Ed Parker’s Ameri- I began researching Physics and Newtonian
can Kenpo System. I instantly fell in love with Laws. The missing puzzle pieces that I was
looking for were answered by science. So I
started developing my own system based on
science and I named it Sandokan.
About the Sandokan System
The Sandokan system comprises an under-
standing of martial science, biomechanics,
and gravity and how the human body works,
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