TY CUNNINGHAM SENSEI

INHERITOR · HISTORIAN · DIRECTOR

 

STONE DRAGON HOUSE™  ALASKAN KEMPO™

 

Ty Cunningham Sensei serves as the Inheritor, Historian, and Director of the Stone Dragon House™ and Alaskan Kempo™. Custodianship of the system was transferred directly through familial lineage from his father, Cunningham Sensei. His role is preservation, adjudication, and transmission. Expansion is not the mandate.

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Within the House, he is known as Inja Sensei—“Hermit Teacher.” The designation reflects prolonged mountain and wilderness-based training methodologies and a deliberate restriction of access. This limitation historically functioned as a Pillar (Master) standard within Alaskan Kempo™, ensuring transmission only where endurance, discretion, and responsibility were demonstrated.

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Beginning at the age of fourteen, Ty Cunningham Sensei instructed military and law enforcement personnel exclusively, developing multiple operational offshoots aligned with real-world force application. Instruction of the general public occurred only on rare and deliberate occasions. These instances consistently revealed a limiting factor: the average civilian was unable to sustain the severity of training required to cultivate survival character under pressure.

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Ty Cunningham Sensei is recognized for the formulation and preservation of Nature’s Way Kempo. This methodology requires direct acceptance of the senseless brutality inherent in violence. From this acceptance emerges the governing doctrine of the House:

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TRAIN THE WAY YOU SURVIVE™

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Only through sustained hardship can fear be confronted, processed, and governed. Without this threshold, preparation remains theoretical and incomplete.

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Accordingly, Ty Cunningham Sensei’s instructional focus remains fixed on military and law enforcement personnel—those obligated by duty to move toward violence rather than withdraw from it. His life’s work is devoted to the study, refinement, and transmission of practical Way of Strategy applications to those capable of listening, learning, and executing the doctrine as written.

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