Elvis met Hawaiian-born kenpo karate instructor Ed Parker at his studio in Pasadena, California. In 1972, Elvis walked into Parker’s studio and began studying karate in earnest. It was Parker’s style of canting and jabbing that Elvis used on stage when demonstrating his karate routines to the admiring fans. This type of karate is called “Kenpo” and was developed by Ed Parker, who harmonized a pragmatic self-defence option based on the Far Eastern philosophy of karate.Parker once wanted to use Elvis’ name to promote a karate championship, but the Colonel wouldn’t let Elvis attend. This incident caused some disagreements between Ed Parker and the King at times, but these have been resolved.one year after Elvis’ death, in 1978, he wrote the book “Inside Elvis”.Ed Parker died on December 15, 1990.