Florendo Visitacion

Who was Florendo Visitacion?

Florendo M. Visitacion was a martial arts instructor. Visitacion, commonly called 'Professor Vee', was born in Ilocos Norte, Philippines in 1910. He began informal Judo training with his brother and uncle at the age of ten. In 1928, he moved to Stockton, California where he studying Filipino martial arts from available sources.

After spending two years in the Hawaiian Islands in 1926, Visitacion arrived in America in 1928, then served in the Armed Forces during the Second World War. He arrived in New York City in July, 1946, graduated from high school at Boro Hall Academy in Brooklyn, then attended Long Island University for a year. He took a liberal arts course for a summer at Pace College of Business in Manhattan, but it was the martial arts that interested him most. An avid reader, Visitacion poured over hundreds of books, newspapers and magazines dealing with various forms of self defense.