Tracy's Kenpo Karate
Al Tracy — The Legacy He Preserved for Us
Al Tracy helped preserve and organize a vast body of early American Kenpo—techniques, curriculum, instruction and history—so later generations could continue to study it.
Enter the Al Tracy MemorialExplore the people, curriculum, philosophy and disputed history behind one of the major branches of American Kenpo.
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History
From Hawaii and William K. S. Chow through Ed Parker, Pasadena and the Tracy school network.
Read the historyThe Tracy System
Belts, named techniques, kata and sets, private instruction and home-study preservation.
Explore the systemThe Way of Kenpo
New essays on training, perception, honesty, economy of motion and martial judgment.
Read the essaysFeatured New Articles
Why Technique Names Matter
How poetic names function as a memory system—and when they stop being useful.
Read articleThe Private-Lesson Revolution
Why the Tracy teaching model was an organizational innovation as much as a technical one.
Read articleHow to Read a Reconstruction
Recovered evidence, lineage accounts and newly written editorial material are not the same thing.
Read articleArchive & Heritage
Gathering of Eagles
The 1999 gathering and its role in bringing multiple Kenpo branches together.
Open archiveKenpo Family Tree
A relationship map with explicit caution about disputed dates and lineage claims.
View family treeAl Tracy Writings & Documents
Confirmed articles, kata-history research, News Flash material, newsletters, manuals and training documents—carefully labeled by attribution status.
Open Writings ArchiveAl Tracy Video Library
Verified Al Tracy footage plus a large linked Tracy-system technique library dedicated to his legacy.
Open Video LibraryRestored Classic Website
Visit the reconstructed classic tracyskarate.com interface and jump directly to original Wayback Machine snapshots.
Enter Classic SiteRobert L. Brown Video Archive
Chinese Kenpo, Japanese Iaido, Bujinkan, Ninjutsu and Invisible Sword videos from Robert L. Brown's Facebook collection.
Open Robert's Video Archive