The Black Belt lineage - Black Card COP

THREE GENERATIONS

The protection doctrine of Black Card Circles of Protection rests on a specific lineage.

Most protection firms describe their methods in terms of tactics. Tactics are the surface of the work. The depth is the doctrine, and the doctrine is shaped by the people who transmitted it. The doctrine carried by El Qu Z. Bey, founder of Black Card Circles of Protection, runs through three generations of American Kenpo. Mr. Ed Parker founded American Kenpo. He built the system, founded its tournaments, and brought it into the modern era of martial arts in the United States. Mr. Tommy Chavies was one of Mr. Parker’s proteges. He carried the system at the highest levels of competition and instruction. El Qu Z. Bey is one of Mr. Chavies’ proteges. He carries the doctrine forward into the protection field as the operational architecture of Black Card Circles of Protection.

MR. ED PARKER Founder, American Kenpo

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MR. TOMMY CHAVIES Protege of Mr. Ed Parker

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EL QU Z. BEY Protege of Mr. Tommy Chavies

MR. TOMMY CHAVIES

Mr. Chavies trained directly under Mr. Ed Parker, competed at the highest level of the system, and earned the kind of recognition that does not come from grade certificates. He was a member of the Budweiser International Karate Team and a multiple-time International Champion of the Long Beach International Karate Tournament.

The Black Belt Lineage Mr. Tommy Chavies. Budweiser International Karate Team. Multiple-time International Champion,

Long Beach International Karate Tournament.

The Black Belt Lineage Mr. Tommy Chavies with Sr. Grand Master Ed Parker, founder of American Kenpo.

The Black Belt Lineage Ed Parker’s International Karate Championships, 1979. Sidney Poitier, Mr. Ed Parker, and Woody Strode.

Photo by Mr. Tommy Chavies.

EL QU Z. BEY

The Black Belt Lineage El Qu Z. Bey and Mr. Tommy Chavies. Active instruction. American Kenpo doctrine.

El Qu Z. Bey is a Third-Degree Black Belt in American Kenpo and a protege of Mr. Tommy Chavies. He received the system through the same line of transmission Mr. Chavies received from Mr. Parker. The training continues. The relationship continues. The standard does not bend. Black Card Circles of Protection rests on a proprietary doctrine, Awareness, Evaluation, Intercept, Disarm, and Control, developed by El Qu inside this tradition and refined against modern protective practice. The curriculum is delivered by the firm’s credentialed instructor faculty, with POST certified instruction provided by the firm’s POST certified instructors for classes requiring it. The doctrine is not borrowed. It is the structural extension of three generations of American Kenpo, applied to the demands of modern principal protection.

The Black Belt Lineage El Qu Z. Bey with Mr. Tommy Chavies. Mr. Chavies’ dojo, Los Angeles.

“The lineage is documented. The doctrine is proprietary. The standard does not bend. The work continues.”