Yehoshua Sofer



Yehoshua Sofer is an Israeli hip hop and rap artist, and a martial artist.

Biography

He was born in 1958 in Jamaica and his family moved to Los Angeles in 1963 where he studied Tang Soo Do, receiving a black belt by 1968, aged ten. He studied Kuk Sool Won from 1974, advancing to 6th dan, and worked as a trainer and bodyguard during the 1970s and 1980s.

Singing career

In the 1990s, he was a hip hop singer and rapper under the name "Nigel Addmore" and was an MC on the album Humus Metamtem in 1993. The album, featuring the hit song, "Hummus makes you stupid," was wildly popular in Israeli dance clubs.
He appeared in the documentary films Awake Zion in 2005, and Hummus the Movie in 2016

Martial arts career

In 2000, he ran a Kuk Sool Won school at the International Convention, Jerusalem.
In 2002, he founded the Abir Warrior Arts Association of Israel, teaching his own style of "Abir-Qesheth Hebrew Warrior Arts" in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, claiming it to be a tradition of his family dating to Israelite antiquity preserved by an underground school of "Bani Abir" in Habban, Yemen, and styling himself Aluf Abir "Grandmaster of Abir". Sofer perceives this style of martial arts training to be a continuation of the practices of the Jewish people prior to the Second Temple period.
The word abir in Modern Hebrew means "knight". The style takes inspiration from the Hebrew alphabet, basing moves and stances on Hebrew letters.