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Bryan Hawkins Kenpo Karate

Bryan Hawkins & Bryan Hawkins Kenpo Karate. A Con Artist & Child Trafficker

West Los Angeles, California

Bryan Hawkins Kenpo Karate.

Extremely disturbing facts uncovered:

Bryan Hawkins is a master deceiver.
His manipulation skills are so polished that he's managed to run his schools at almost no cost other than utility & lease.
His teachers are all volunteers that he's convinced to work for free.
His legions of blindly loyal followers include dojo members such as volunteers who not only continue to pay him their money for lessons, but who also have been convinced that "being of service" entails spending long hours, grueling days & nights, vast amounts of gas money to travel back & forth between his schools to teach his other paying students.

One must question the intelligence of these people.
Do they not stop to think why they're working for him for free & in some cases even paying to work for him?
Perhaps if they turned him down, they might be shunned.

However, even if shunned, it wouldn't be nearly as bad as being a spineless follower & flock of misled members who expend their own money & resources just to serve someone that they have no material evidence is a "good" person.
Rhetorically speaking, how can one be a "good" person if he is abusing the trust of his members?

As for finances, tuition with Bryan Hawkins is unreasonable.
His prices are higher than other dojos.
Even advancing to a next level belt is costly.
He charges extra for each belt.
Meanwhile, his closure days are more than any other martial arts school. Even the other Kenpo Karate schools dutifully remain open for lessons at least 6 days weekly & some Sundays.

Mr. Hawkins might claim his schools sometimes close during previously scheduled classes "because of the sleep-away camps" that he schedules.
This is not true.
Afterall, Bryan Hawkins has many manipulated volunteers who are at his beck & call to take over & teach those classes, thus there is no justification for closure days.
The real reason for closure days is if he absolutely cannot secure a volunteer for that day.
While Bryan Hawkins arbitrarily closes his school on normal business hours & scheduled class days, he still makes sure that his automated system collects recurring fees & other money from students & families during those closure days, because his students & the parents are dissuaded from speaking up for fear of seeming out of line.

At Bryan Hawkins Kenpo Karate, no one speaks up. They fear the unspoken retribution that inevitably comes, as they have seen happen to others.

Bryan Hawkins demands blind loyalty, even while fleecing pockets of student, families, volunteers, friends.
These are unspoken rules.

His instructors do not get paid a dime.
He alleges that volunteerism "builds community."
While there are some families & students who might say Bryan Hawkins is a "good old guy" & won't complain, there are ten times more families, children, former students & even former volunteers who have drastically different accounts of his arbitrary abuse against them, who have not spoken out.

Bryan Hawkins is a same dojo owner who expends no money on the cleanliness of his dojos.
There might be a once-per-month, very slight, insignificant swipe here & there, but his schools & dojos remain overridden with fungus, bacteria & filth.
The surplus of unhealthy filth, lack of cleanliness, health code violations are all designed to save more money for him (At cost of those attending & volunteering at his schools) while causing unknown amounts of allergens, harm to lungs, skin, and other issues.
Not all problems manifest immediately. However, later when members and volunteers start having problems and/or experience exasperation of their pre-existing conditions, they can rest assured that these issues are caused by the unfathomable amount of dirt, fungus, filth at his two remaining dojos.

Check his Google profile page.
The page currently contains approximately nine Phony, Manufactured "positive 5-star" reviews.
As for those reviews, they are currently posted by Ed Reilly, Glen Beattie, Thomas Martinez & the others that he's implored to post those phony reviews.
These individuals all are among his highly manipulated sheep. That should tell you what you need to know about the authenticity of those so-called "glowing" reviews.
His Yelp page is no different.
All 5-star reviews are manufactured.

I have been there.
I have first-hand knowledge of every fact set forth in this Report.

There are many other martial arts schools & other karate disciplines in Southern California.
There are even other separate Kenpo schools, taught by completely separate dojo owners.
Yet none of these other schools use any manipulation, coercion, mind games, extortion like Bryan Hawkins uses on his friends, members & students to extract free labor & even other free services.
Every one of the other schools pay their instructors & staff.
On the other hand, Bryan Hawkins has zero staff or employees.
Instead, he has a legion of blind, mindless, carefully manipulated "volunteers" and, most disturbingly, including children, to instruct his other paying students.

To be clear, coercive tactics that Bryan Hawkins uses to extract endless amounts of free labor is not "helping each other."
His tactics are to used on adults & even little children, teenagers (Teens who must use their non-student hours to do homework, prepare for pre-college exams, term papers, socializing & more important things) to pick up the slack & teach entire hour-long classes, often back-to-back classes for as long as two hours in a row without breaks in between.
And the parents are conned enough to go along with it.
Among countless examples: I spoke with mother of Piper, a happy but also very stressed 16-year-old female.
Piper is highly skilled in martial arts.
However, Piper, like the many other members of Bryan Hawkins Kenpo, also has school homework, mid-term papers, social life and many other far more important concerns.
However, Bryan Hawkins told her & her mother that, if Piper "really wants that black belt," she must come in extra hours (Additional hours plus going into the dojo for her own lessons) and teach classes on her own time.
Because Piper does want that black belt that she has worked so hard toward, she's forced to go in on additional days & hours, while setting aside her mid-term papers, studying for final exams, etc., to prioritize working free for Bryan Hawkins.
And these facts are causing her extreme stress.
However, Piper, like the many other minors, is terrified to speak up.
As well, her very friendly, outgoing mother cannot speak up, as she too, has been manipulated to think this is a "privilege" rather than the mind-control & manipulation tactics of Bryan Hawkins.

Bryan Hawkins has people so brainwashed, that they cannot see through the veil of phoniness and maliciousness.

(Continued In Next Post below this Report).

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  • Hester
  • Submitted: 10/07/2026
(Continued from previous report above)

Bryan Hawkins has spent years constructing such a false persona as the "one and only right hand of the late Ed Parker" that he has it smooth enough to convince anyone.
Bryan Hawkins has people so brainwashed by his skills of manipulation, that they genuinely cannot see through the veil of phoniness and maliciousness.

Just a few of the many instances
. Other dojos are owned & run by people who actually pay their instructors
.Most significantly, other dojos never ever participate in child labor.
Bryan Hawkins openly uses child labor because he blackmails his young student, those below 18 years old, to come in to teach entire classes, so that they can work their way to blackbelt.
The unspoken, inferred message is:
"You'll need to be tested for next level belts. During testing, we can promote you or not.
You decide what it'll be and how long you want it to take you to reach brown or black belt."
This is called the criminal act of Child Trafficking (And not his only criminal act).
And the parents are so overcome with his phony reputation of years of authority & "good guy" that they cannot see the harm this until the children are suffering exhaustion, distress, anxiety & other issues.
As skilled sociopaths are, he is well versed in suggestive programming.
Students, parents, members are so convinced that they vie for attention by doing anything for him, fawning over him, expressing gratitude for every second of his attentions.
While this is a pathetic display of human gullibility, it is what it is.
However there are many others who are not easily programmed & can think for themselves and see through his lies and tactics.
And those are the ones that he gets rid of through underhanded techniques of pitting members against each other.
His skills are smooth enough to make people think that they did something wrong.
And when arguments break out, Bryan Hawkins will dismiss the threat, the person who could clearly see through him, from the dojo.
Mr. Hawkins plays chess, not checkers.
He cannot afford for anyone to know the truth.

More facts to consider:
.Other dojos have standards of cleanliness & basic hygiene because paying members deserve that much.
Not at Bryan Hawkins dojos.
.Air conditioning, especially during tough classes are a basic human need.
However, Bryan Hawkins shuts off air conditioning if he leaves in the middle of a class, so students & free instructors are left to swelter in the heat
. Unlike Bryan Hawkins, other dojos never secretly pit students, members, parents against each other, never ostracize others in order to lift up themselves to appear as if they are more in control or are some "ultimate authority" in a field where there are many far wiser & more fair masters of martial arts.

As long as Bryan Hawkins can trick people into thinking that providing free labor for him is a so-called "privilege," people will be slaves to him for as long as he can extract from them.

He even has his adult students convinced that they should provide free services to him.
Some of them paint his schools for free.
Others provide other services that any other person would have to pay for & should pay for.

Bryan Hawkins is a tyrant disguised as an alleged "pilar of the community" & "good ole boy".

One of sons is a police officer with the L.A.P.D. This affords him even more power over others.

For example, and most disturbingly, Bryan Hawkins has a secret penchant for little boys.
He has had access to these little boys for years, as his Kenpo schools & his manipulative skills with the parents gains him their trust.
Other parents who have come to discover that their little children had been harmed by Bryan Hawkins have never been able to speak up because his son has connections.
Thus, no reports filed will ever see a courtroom (At least at the time of this Report).

There are better and far more legitimate schools and dojos for martial arts lessons and classes and treat everyone with dignity without any ulterior motives or underhanded pettiness.
The choices are unlimited in Southern California.

Do not be another victim of Bryan Hawkins and his nefarious, damaging actions.
If you or anyone you know has been victimized by Bryan Hawkins and/or his family members (His so-called "team") and you've been unfairly dismissed and your money not refunded and/or have sustained other damages as a result, make sure to publicly post your personal experiences and help support others.

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