Founded by Hip-Hop author and scholar Adisa Banjoko, is the worlds first scholar to teach how music, chess and martial arts can promote unity, strategy and non-violence. This award winning speaker teaches youth of all backgrounds risk assessment, emotional mastery and how to apply what they see on the chessboard to real life decision making. Follow us @realhiphopchess on IG! You can also listen to Bishop Chronicles podcast on www.bishopchronicles.com iTunes, Spotify and Mixcloud.
D'Juan Owens and Cody Maltais joined forces to help HHCF expand to NC!!
HHCF will be expanding to North Carolina!! With the help of Elevate MMA and D'Juan Owens they held an intro event in Durham, NC a few weeks back. In case you missed it, here are two pretty cool short videos that prove the fusion of Hip-Hop, chess and martial arts are for all people, of all backgrounds, all across America:
Video 1 ( a short vid explaining why we do what we do) made by Gene Kim
Video 2 (a lof of the rolling from that day and the youth) made by Beautiful by Design Art
Extra thanks to Cody Maltais of Elevate MMA, HHCF Southeast Regional Director Vince Bayyan and HHCF Raleigh Chapter Leader D'Juan Owens!!
HHCF Teamed with Elevate MMA in Durham, NC!!!! They joined forces through the wisdom of jiu-jitsu champion, HHCF chess teacher and bboy D'Juan Owens. There will be an open mat Sunday Feb 21st at the new gym hosted by Head Instructor at Elevate MMA, Cody Maltais. D'Juan and Vince Bayyan of HHCF will be in the house. Go check it out and enjoy this great video by Gene Kim featuring jiu-jitsu, dance and the philosophies that fuse them. For those that don't understand what a real movement this has become, D'Juan penned a powerful poem about his travels through chess and martial arts around the world. Enjoy....
AN ODE TO CHESS"
I've played chess outside with homeless men in NY....I've
played chess with a multi millionaire in his compound in
South America...I've played chess in about 24 states and 9
countries...and once with a def man in the Russian winter, in
Russian November in a hotel hallway...I've played chess with
REAL scholars, REAL gangsters, humanitarians, activist,
and bigots alike. I've played chess with jiu jitsu, judo, AND
luta livre black belts. I've played chess in classrooms as well
as a waiting room of a jail...I've had the pride of the enlisted
on my back in the finals of a tournament on an aircraft-
carrier against a lieutenant colonel while sailing past the horn
