Kosho Ryu Kenpo Jujitsu
Kenpo Dragons
The Kenpo Dragons are a mixed and combat martial arts training team.
The Kenpo Dragons train in a style of combat and sport fighting developed
by Dr. Gregory T. Lawton called Velocity Martial Arts.
The combat and mixed martial arts program is taught by Dr. Gregory Lawton,
Black Belt in Kosho Ryu Kenpo Jujitsu.
Dr. Lawton is a licensed Chiropractor and is nationally board and state (Idaho)
certified in acupuncture. He has trained in the martial arts for 55 years and taught martial arts for 40 years. Dr. Lawton studied Yang Tai Chi Chuan with the revered Chinese teacher Professor Huo Chi-Kwang. Professor Huo was a student of Yang Shou Hou grandson of the founder of the Yang family system of Tai Chi Chuan (Yang Lu Chan) and Dr. Lawton was a kenpo student of Master Thomas Connor who studied with the founder of American Kenpo Karate, Ed Parker. The Blue Heron Academy kenpo jujutsu heritage dates back over 800 years through the famous Japanese Yoshida family and it originated at the Shaolin Monastery in China.