Ultimate Kempo

Today, the line of teachers in this unique form of self-defense and mind-discipline continues with Jeff Driscoll Shihan. He has been a student of the martial arts for 28 years, holding the ranks of 5th Dan in Ryu Kyu Kempo Karate, 4th Dan in Kosho Ryu Kempo, 3rd Dan in Muso Jikden Eishin Ryu Iaijutsu, and a 1st Dan in Tae Kwon Do. He currently studies and teaches Kosho Ryu Kempo, as a student of Hanshi Bruce Juchnik, and Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu Iaijutsu, under Shihan Carl Long and Hanshi Masayuki Shimabukuro . Driscoll Sensei has also been the host of the East Coast Gathering since 1998, an event geared towards bringing martial artists together from different styles and systems, in an atmosphere of sharing and learning. He has been the owner and instructor at the Driscoll Institute of the Martial Arts in Pottsville, PA, since 1986. Bruce Juchnik has been involved in the martial since 1964. He met James Mitose in 1978 and he received the Menkiokaiden (The Directive to Head an Art Form) from James Mitose in 1980 to allow him to teach the study of Kosho Ryu kempo. He also studied under other pioneers of the martial arts in the United States, including Robert Trias, Thomas S. H. Young, and Rick Alemany.