5th Degree Black Belt Master Adam Zax

Was promoted to Master by the founder of Shaolin Kempo Karate System
Grandmaster Fred Villari

Shunning the limelight, Grandmaster Fredrick J. Villarihas accomplished much with a minimum of publicity. He's rarely seen in martial arts magazines.

However 10,000 Black Belts and 15 million students after its conception Fred Villari's Studios are now a far cry from the days when Fred Villari taught two students at seven in the morning in a walk-up studio in Waltham Massachusetts. The name Villari and Shaolin Kempo Karate is synonymous with East Coast Kempo. In 1995, annual Villari national tournament, held at the World Trade Center (Boston), drew 10,000 spectators to watch 5,000 participants.

As a young person growing up Villari studied martial arts with his father. Later he was exposed to and studied several martial arts styles. During this period he and Nick Cerio corresponded and trained with Professor William K.S. Chow. Villari's approach to Kempo was to maintain the style as he learned it through Chow and that is how it is presented in the Villari System today.

Villari promoted his ideas well through solid instruction and modern business practices. Eventually his method was spread throughout the world as more than 500 schools have been opened that teach his method. His contribution helped open the way of the Asian martial arts, on a massive scale, to the ordinary layman. Villari is still actively teaching and demonstrating the martial arts in his schools today.

Master Zax has been training for 18 years under the direct tutelage of
8th Degree Master Robert Bombalier


Master Bombalier was trained directly by Grandmaster Fred Villari and is one of
the Seven Dragons of the Villari System.
The Seven Dragons were hand selected by Grandmaster Villari as the having the most knowledge and expertise of those active Masters of the system.

What makes Master Zax's Lineage Unique is the lack of "phone game" that happens when the intricacies of the system don't have to pass through too many "ears". 

Do you remember the "phone game"?  It was usually played in a classroom or at a party.  A group of people would sit next to each other in a line.  Someone would make up a short story and whisper it into the ear of the first person in the line; who would then whisper it into the ear of the next person and so on and so on. 

The last person gets the story whispered into their ear and then tells the story aloud for the group.  Then the person who started the story tells what happened when it had started.  Inevitably the stories are not even close to each other.

Why is this story of the "phone game" important?
Because this is exactly what happens to a martial arts system.  A form can be taught to someone who forgets a few moves and then teaches it to the next person who adds a few moves and changes a few others and then teaches it to the next guy.  This goes on and on and the next thing you know the forms, combinations and techniques are nothing like what they were meant to be. 

If you have studied  or are studying Shaolin Kempo Karate from anyone other than a Certified Villari Master, you owe it to yourself to come in for a free review with Master Zax.  He absolutely guarantees you will learn something about the material you have that you did not know.