BRUCE ASATO / BASATO@STARADVERTISER.COM Ku'ulei Nitta and her father, Bruce Nitta, during a training session at a kempo karate class in Pearl City. BRUCE ASATO / BASATO@STARADVERTISER.COM Ku'ulei ...

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 ...

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, ...

After four-and-a-half years taking Kenpo Karate classes at the Windsor Recreation Center, three 14-year-olds have received their junior black belts. Trevor Overton, Wil Francis and Glenn Gibson ...

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 ...