| Carter Hargrave in the Business of War |
| The words martial arts bring to mind the high flashy kicks of Bruce Lee movies and the escapades of Jackie Chan, but what do they really mean. The term martial arts began its origins in the orient many hundreds of years ago before tournaments or any thought of sporing aspects of karate and kung fu. That was the time when Karate of Kung Fu was used to keep you and family in one piece defending against war lords and various Ronin or unemployed Samurai turned freelance fighters “Martial Arts were in fact fighting arts” says Carter Hargrave a direct descendant of the Bruce Lee School, and the direct translation of Martial Art is War Art. The term as it is used today is much more benign or generic in meaning. It could mean almost anything as it is used in all sorts of Karate or Kung Fu variants and anything in between from absolutely any country. Almost every country has in its heritage a fighting art or a national Martial Art. In the United States you have American Boxing, and in the school systems many schools offer a wrestling program which was derived from the influences of Japanese Jujitsu. The French have Savate. The Chinese have Wushu among a multitude of other arts. The Italians have Greco Roman Wrestling. The Israelis have Krav Maga. The Brazilians have Capoeira, and so the list goes on and on. It is all part of each countries history to have a method of unarmed or empty handed combat. So where does this leave the world of the Martial Art in todays societies? Well it is not so clear cut anymore. Many of the arts of today have no real purpose. Some are just for exercise and others are just to entertain us in modern gladiator fashion. The true Martial Art or War Art is hard to find and in a sense has been watered down and flowered up as not to offend the sensibilities of “modern culture” or “civilized culture”. Still the true Martial Art can be found if you know what to look for. First if the art you are observing has any sporting aspects such as a tournament or a ring it cannot be considered as being a War Art. In War there is not a set of rules or guidelines that the practitioner must adhere to, so the tournaments of today would be out, as would any art that has tournaments. There is a word guide that a prospective War Art seeker can generally use in searching. When you see the word “Do” translated is “way of” on the end of an art that means that it is a watered down version of a parent art that was more real world effective. The only exception would be Bruce Lee’s art which is Jeet Kune Do which is most certainly a War Art. Carter Hargrave teaches real world arts at |
Carter Hargrave Oklahomas Only Tripple Grandmaster
Carter Hargrave is the founder tenth degree black belt of American Combat Kempo Karate (Kempo is Japanese for law of the fist) and has the title of Grandmaster for that style. Hargrave recently received his official notification of promotion and certification that both of his black belt rankings in Kung Fu and Ju Jitsu were being upgraded to eighth degree Grandmaster status making him the only instructor in the State of Oklahoma to ever achieve the three time rank honor
In addition to the above styles Hargrave has earned black belt /instructor certifications in Arnis Stick and Knife fighting, Tae Kwon Do, Goshin Jutsu, and the Bruce Lee style of Jeet Kune Do that he learned from an original Bruce Lee school student.
Hargrave is a full time martial arts teacher and author of three martial arts books, "Japanese Kempo Karate Training Manual", "Entrance to Secrets" and the international best seller "The Original Jeet Kune Do Training Manual."
Grandmaster Carter Hargrave teaches at his exclusive private martial arts school by application only.
Carter Hargrave Jkd Teaching
Carter Hargrave is known in the martial arts circles as the master of Jeet Kune Do. Jeet Kune Do or JKD as its often referred to is the most effective self defense art no matter what your experience is in the martial arts. Carter Hargrave learned his JKD from an original student at the Bruce Lee school in California. Bruce Lee coined the name for this art in 1962 when he became winded during an exhibition match where it took him almost two minutes to subdue his opponent. Lee found that his training to that point in the traditional martial arts had failed him miserably, and that a new distinctive approach would be needed if he was to shorten the time in fights or in matches of any sort.
Jeet Kune Do / JKD while being founded by Lee has not been widely taught to the public due to the fact that so few teachers existed. When Carter Hargrave became certified to teach by his instructor there were less than fifty teachers worldwide who taught the original art. It is also a little known fact that at one point the original art of Lee was on the verge of complete extinction. Only a handful of teachers were still around and none taught for a living. Most of those who did teach did so out of back rooms or out of their garages. You could only find them by word of mouth.
Carter Hargrave began his training in the art of Jeet Kune Do in the early nineteen nineties in a small town quite some distance from where he had been living. Hargrave began teaching as an apprentice instructor soon after starting as he was progressing rapidly through the ranks. HIs teacher noticed his ability and drive and soon opened a small school to further his training and abilities to teach other students.
In 1994 Carter Hargrave had been teaching for several years and decided to upscale his teaching environment. He opened the largest Jeet Kune Do school in the history of Oklahoma. Hargrave found that his love of teaching that had sustained him for so long had now taken a back seat to the business world. He found that teaching was the least thing that he did. It was all about the bottom line and advertising and a bunch of other non martial arts related minutia that he found distasteful. He also found that he was accepting the same quality of students that all of the other martial arts schools in town. If you had a checkbook and a heartbeat you were in.
After three years of doing business like every other Sensei, Carter Hargrave said that is enough and closed his two schools. Carter Hargrave then decided to change things from a public school to a private school where students had to apply for his lessons and to pass background checks to eliminate the violent and habitual criminals. He now taught only those he wished, and students now had to prove their desire to be a student. Hargrave Martial Arts systems was molded exactly the way Carter Hargrave had envisioned.
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Carter Hargrave’s Jeet Kune Do Federation Website Marks Fifteen Millionth Visitor
The World Jeet Kune Do Federation commemorates its fifteen millionth visitor since opening new Jeet Kune Do Website says Carter Hargrave CEO The World Jeet Kune Do Federation or JKD Federation commemorates its fifteen millionth visitor since its new domain debut of www.worldjkd.com
The World Jeet Kune Do Federation is the official website of Jeet Kune Do. Jeet Kune Do is known worldwide as the art that was founded by Bruce Lee. The idea was to take Kung Fu, Fencing, American Boxing, and heavily modify the moves to make them more efficient and fluid for self defense.
The style of Jeet Kune Do as Lee named it translates into Way of the Intercepting Fist. Carter Hargrave, President of the World Jeet Kune Do Federation says “Jeet Kune Do is one of the most devastating self defense styles ever devised.”
The most famous book ever written in martial arts is The Dao of Jeet Kune Do says Hargrave a direct descendant of Bruce Lee’s school in California. It has sold over one million copies in over nine languages.
Jeet Kune Do while well known in the martial arts community is still rather obscure in its original form, as there are few instructors who have the actual training from one of Lee’s schools.
The World Jeet Kune Do Federation offers training worldwide with its certified instructors, or you can schedule Professor Carter Hargrave for private training through the official JKD website. The WJKDF also offers a ground breaking distance training DVD program for ranking and testing worldwide. To test for your official ranking in Jeet Kune Do all you have to do is order the training DVD, practice the moves just like you learned in the DVD, then video yourself with a camera, webcam etc., then send us a video cd, DVD, or video file via email or website link, and Professor Hargrave will grade your test and contact you via email to let you know if you pass or what you need to work on. As a member of the Jeet Kune Do Federation you can ask questions about your training or a technique any time.
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