The late Sijo Leon Trescott in Hamilton NJ used to teach a kung fu system that incorporated many basic two person drills, stances, offensive and defensive methods from Shorinji Kempo. He freely and proudly admitted it and said he learned i tin college. I didn't realize how much of that influence was in the basic levels of his art until the internet became a thing and I saw this and other videos. It became a way of getting beginners proficient in defending themselves then later he'd incorporate lots of Hung Gar, and Choy Lay Fut techniques as well as Chin Na.
I would like to thank you very much for this upload! The martial arts techniques shown here are excellent! This training on wooden floor is pretty tough and the shiatsu techniques are very impressive.
I'm practising kempo karate at the moment, and i am going for my orange belt this november. I am doing a kata by the name of kihon. It is very easy to do. Hopefully this documentary will show me the path of true karate.
My "katas" in kempo have different names.... Like "Tench-kin Dai Ike" and "kihon" is what we call the formal/lined up part of class. ... I swear it feels like asking about a southern church trying to track the martial arts lineages. 😂
The "german badge" is the swastika, which originated in Hindu/Buddhist culture and was corrupted by Hitler and the Nazi party. It originally meant "fruitfulness" or the movement/cycle of energy between heaven and earth. You will find the swastika on many ancient statues of the Buddha, directly over the heart. So, yes, it IS a part of their design, as they are trying to return as closely as possible to the original teachings of the Buddha, and the fighting arts express by Bodhidharma.
It seems the founder is full of contradictions: A Japanese spy working against China and teaching what he thought would be the martial arts from the Shaolin temple. Then he developed his own interpretation of Buddhism. He also worked in the black market but did not harm the locals. His best friend millionaire according to the documentary is in a far-right political party. The narrator says “the sect is in the process to make a cult of Doshin So.” And “He found he could attract young people by teaching them fighting. And then move into Buddhism.” Even a blind person can see so many red flags.
These modern composite methods (Sogo Budo) like Shorinji Kempo, are very interesting, fascinating and undoubtedly very effective. I'm a practitioner of Yoseikan Budo, another japanese composite method widespreaded in Europe, founded by master Hiroo Mochizuki, that is equally fascinating and effective.
This leg trap, like kote-gaeshi, is not, in fact, a throwing technique : the person seized thus rolls with the lock in order to avoid damage to his knee or, in the case of kote-gaeshi, his wrist. Kote-gaeshi, however, can be used with a tae-otoshi, which is a throwing technique, in order to reinforce it.
Despite Shorinji Kempo being a great martial art, it's Buddhist principles and philosophy clashes with those who are not Buddhist and would want to get into this fighting art. It is why I decided to train in another system of Karate such as Kyokushin as Shorinji Kempo clashes with my Christian (Roman Catholic) faith.
The thing is I'm not a Buddhist, I'm a Roman Catholic. The practitioners of Shorinji Kempo are Buddhist especially those in Japan. It give you that feeling that you need to be a Buddhist or be converted to one in order to train in Shorinji Kempo.
flip1sba That is a very Christian way of looking at it. I am not religious in any way (wich does not mean i disrespect anyone who is) but purely looking at them from a distance i do get the impression that it is more that other religions that have a problem with Bhudism than the other way around. However if that holds you back to at least find out if you could practise... If it just fore the Martial arts then please dont fix on one or the other there are many styles out there that focus on the same principals. I would advise you then to find a school in your area that does the same kind of techniques and were you are happy training. That is way more important than the name on de the door..
aquadragon1 Even if I'm Roman Catholic, I respect other religions or faiths as long as they respect mine and not force their beliefs. Again, I'm training in Kyokushin Karate. And the system itself respects all religion as with our dojo oath, "We will follow our religious principles and never forget the true virtue of humility". Osu!
flip1sba karate has origins with the chinese martial arts as well as okinawa and japan, meaning some of its roots come from Taoism. if you want a Christian Martial Art, look up Systema, a russian system that has roots in western warriors.
@ Betty O Toole, do you practice American Kenpo Karate as that developed by Ed Parker? Shorinji Kempo is of a different system, different history and different principle.
Ah yes, I saw this first time around on the BBC. Hmm, they like that Wrist Lock with Throw and that Shoulder Wheel. Still, interesting Post so Thanks for that.
Any Captain Obviouses in the comments who point out that that swastika is only there because for thousands of years it was a symbol of good luck should drown with their own ships.
Robert Miles The BIBLE is from West (written by Ancient Greeks aka Javan) but all the story mention in the Bible and the real tribe of Israelite is from the East. Torah origin from the so called middle East (Asia) claimed by them Japheth (White Races).
Around 8:18 the Japanese sinsa mention Dharma came through SE-ASIA? It's totally make sense now why Japanese kempo(Kam/Kem-bo) practitioner claimed their fighting art is a prayer stance(Similar to Angkor kem-mae/Kam-mae/Khmer/ khom-met fighting stances) depicted on Angkor Wat/Vat. Our history is a bunch of cow shit been distored bad. Example western claimed Cambodia became /converted to Buddhist after 13 centuary a.d?? haha... But yet ancient Chinese Scriptures from around 5 centuary claiming ancient khmer/Kam-mae help translated buddha manuscripts to ancient china.
I think that's a super fair point. What made you say it? I really enjoy my kempo practice and I'm very novice, but yeah... There's no way my tiny hands hold a wrist or palm long enough for the throws I'm seeing the higher belts do without some intermediation on my part. It's as if the pin takes too long before the throw (for me, as of now, anyway) whereas in the tiny bit of aikido I attended they sort of melted together faster. I could get someone off-balance and away from me with an imperfect grab. Not in kempo... Miss that pin and all momentum vanishes. In aikido my smaller size felt like a greater advantage. In kempo I'm supposed to stay much closer to the opponent for more... "love taps." And I practice, but in my head I'm just unlikely to be powerful and fast and accurate enough for some of the techniques to seem useful. If you made it this far, does any of that make sense to you in your experience? Or is my novice status showing?
I like the spiritual part of Shorin ji kenpo where they recite creed on virtue. I hope Christian karate practitioners should also have such kind of martial art practice and culture to imbibed the learners spiritual self discipline that they may not become like some people who learn Martial Arts to become tough guys bully since they are trained in the art of killing---Karate. Christian karate practitioners should become like the apostle of Jesus who draw his sword and cut the ear of one of those soldiers arresting Jesus, his master or Lord. this I think is a practical Christian and down- to- earth one. he will not hesitate to strike in defense of his life, limbs, spouse, relatives or stranger.
Michael the archangel is the patron saint of warriors. I always think of him when practice martial arts. In fact I silently recite the Michael the archangel prayer while everyone else is doing the dojo creed.
@@raywest7222 you'd be better off calling a good lawyer and recording the evidence. Violence just playing into the hands of the violent. Which is why MLK and Ghandi rejected it. Just ask what would Jesus do?
I second that. "The swastika is a symbol of peace" but this guy was ex-military and in league with far right-wing Japanese nationalists, and they are covered in swastikas like it was the only important Hindu/Buddhist symbol. Fucking disgusting to realize just how right-wing the karate community tends to be.
That is complete nonsense - that there were right-wing-nationalist in the Japanese Karate community 30 years ago is beyond doubt. There were right-wing-nationalists in the real-estate-business and a lot of other places as well. That does not indicate that there are more nationalists in the karate-community than anywhere else, does it. And what does the swastika have to do with that? I has been used in Far-Eastern religions and in North Scandinavian paganism and everywhere else in between for a millenium or two. Just because Nazis have used for about one century - in a totally diffent grafic context - doesn't make every other swastika a right-wing symbol.
Evera Outta I don't know, but it may have been. Then again, what is far right wing in Japan. It is obviously not the far right-wing that wants Japan to rise from the ashes and become a superpower again - like the neo-nazi right wing in Germany. And there was also no-one talking about them being superiour to others, only to do everything to make the country the best it can be, period. That is very chauvenistic, but can I blame anyone for wanting to put all their effort into protecting and making their country perfect - whatever that means. No I can't. That right wing powers will have had more power to grow after WWII in Japan than in Germany, however, is a clear fact. Just like the USA was forced to cooperate with the Mafia in Italy they were forced to cooperate with Yakuza to gain any control at all. And Yakuza, more than Mafiosi, have their nose in legal businesses and overtly mingle in politics. I had a lot to do with Karate people from Japan in the 80es. I did not find any of them extreme in any direction. But these Shorinji Kenpo guys are not average.
Octopussyist Any group that fraternizes with right-wing groups, and does not explicitly state they are for keeping welfare for the homeless and poor and sick, are effectively (and not just in claim) anti-pimp but pro-sex-worker (possible, since the SJK group seems to have had a literal war with the yakuza in the countryside), and are pro-LGBT ... is not someone I trust to follow the Mahayana Buddhist canon. Sad thing is, I so strongly doubt almost anyone does follow it, anywhere, anymore, that I'm not a Buddhist myself.
Evera Outta What is right wing to you? Basically it only means to the more right wing than the middle. So it really means nothing before we decide what is average in that particular country at that particular time. Otherwise we will soon be talking bullshit just like those who call others left wing because they advocate public health insurance. And still: None of the main stream Karate-guys from Japan that I met in the Eighties had any extreme political views. That was the point I was commenting in the first place.
The late Sijo Leon Trescott in Hamilton NJ used to teach a kung fu system that incorporated many basic two person drills, stances, offensive and defensive methods from Shorinji Kempo. He freely and proudly admitted it and said he learned i tin college. I didn't realize how much of that influence was in the basic levels of his art until the internet became a thing and I saw this and other videos. It became a way of getting beginners proficient in defending themselves then later he'd incorporate lots of Hung Gar, and Choy Lay Fut techniques as well as Chin Na.
I would like to thank you very much for this upload! The martial arts techniques shown here are excellent! This training on wooden floor is pretty tough and the shiatsu techniques are very impressive.
Thanks a lot for the upload. I thought I had seen all of the episodes but there was obviously one that I had missed. Thanks again!
Thankyou so much for uploding it 🙏🏻❤
I wish I'd gone to hombu to study full time in 1985 when I left Uni, I don't think I'd have ever left!
Thank you for your work on youtube, sensei Adrian!
Gassho!
I'm practising kempo karate at the moment, and i am going for my orange belt this november. I am doing a kata by the name of kihon. It is very easy to do. Hopefully this documentary will show me the path of true karate.
This isn't karate
probly you fo american kenpo karate, kempo 5.0 is awesome
My "katas" in kempo have different names.... Like "Tench-kin Dai Ike" and "kihon" is what we call the formal/lined up part of class.
... I swear it feels like asking about a southern church trying to track the martial arts lineages. 😂
@@akasha924Maybe I can help. What is the name of your Kempo style, your school, your teacher?
@@richnielsen4465 You are kind to offer. I'm no longer practicing at this time.
The "german badge" is the swastika, which originated in Hindu/Buddhist culture and was corrupted by Hitler and the Nazi party. It originally meant "fruitfulness" or the movement/cycle of energy between heaven and earth. You will find the swastika on many ancient statues of the Buddha, directly over the heart. So, yes, it IS a part of their design, as they are trying to return as closely as possible to the original teachings of the Buddha, and the fighting arts express by Bodhidharma.
bcookhe the swastika was not exactly the same as it was inverted compared to the original.
Not true, the original goes both ways. I live across the street from a Chan Buddhist school in Taiwan and it's painted on the gates.
"which originated in Hindu/Buddhist culture"
False.
"and was corrupted by Hitler and the Nazi party."
They didn't corrupt it.
It seems the founder is full of contradictions: A Japanese spy working against China and teaching what he thought would be the martial arts from the Shaolin temple. Then he developed his own interpretation of Buddhism. He also worked in the black market but did not harm the locals. His best friend millionaire according to the documentary is in a far-right political party.
The narrator says “the sect is in the process to make a cult of Doshin So.” And
“He found he could attract young people by teaching them fighting. And then move into Buddhism.”
Even a blind person can see so many red flags.
Sounds like a cool story to me.
These modern composite methods (Sogo Budo) like Shorinji Kempo, are very interesting, fascinating and undoubtedly very effective. I'm a practitioner of Yoseikan Budo, another japanese composite method widespreaded in Europe, founded by master Hiroo Mochizuki, that is equally fascinating and effective.
This leg trap, like kote-gaeshi, is not, in fact, a throwing technique : the person seized thus rolls with the lock in order to avoid damage to his knee or, in the case of kote-gaeshi, his wrist. Kote-gaeshi, however, can be used with a tae-otoshi, which is a throwing technique, in order to reinforce it.
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Despite Shorinji Kempo being a great martial art, it's Buddhist principles and philosophy clashes with those who are not Buddhist and would want to get into this fighting art.
It is why I decided to train in another system of Karate such as Kyokushin as Shorinji Kempo clashes with my Christian (Roman Catholic) faith.
Than youare very mitaken my friend. Buddism does not "clash" with any religion.
The thing is I'm not a Buddhist, I'm a Roman Catholic. The practitioners of Shorinji Kempo are Buddhist especially those in Japan.
It give you that feeling that you need to be a Buddhist or be converted to one in order to train in Shorinji Kempo.
flip1sba That is a very Christian way of looking at it. I am not religious in any way (wich does not mean i disrespect anyone who is) but purely looking at them from a distance i do get the impression that it is more that other religions that have a problem with Bhudism than the other way around. However if that holds you back to at least find out if you could practise... If it just fore the Martial arts then please dont fix on one or the other there are many styles out there that focus on the same principals. I would advise you then to find a school in your area that does the same kind of techniques and were you are happy training. That is way more important than the name on de the door..
aquadragon1 Even if I'm Roman Catholic, I respect other religions or faiths as long as they respect mine and not force their beliefs.
Again, I'm training in Kyokushin Karate. And the system itself respects all religion as with our dojo oath,
"We will follow our religious principles and never forget the true virtue of humility". Osu!
flip1sba karate has origins with the chinese martial arts as well as okinawa and japan, meaning some of its roots come from Taoism. if you want a Christian Martial Art, look up Systema, a russian system that has roots in western warriors.
@ Betty O Toole, do you practice American Kenpo Karate as that developed by Ed Parker? Shorinji Kempo is of a different system, different history and different principle.
Ah yes, I saw this first time around on the BBC. Hmm, they like that Wrist Lock with Throw and that Shoulder Wheel. Still, interesting Post so Thanks for that.
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Dear Sean, Thanks for upload the clips. Can I know how I can get the clip The Samurai Way (29 June 1983)?
He has it on this channel.
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The last part seems fake. (The vital points "knock out").
I've taken part it a "knock out Demo." believe me it's very real.
Any Captain Obviouses in the comments who point out that that swastika is only there because for thousands of years it was a symbol of good luck should drown with their own ships.
Swastikas been around before Western BIBLE......
Simone King
The bible isn't Western. It's Middle Eastern and spread to, then kind of destroyed, the West.
Robert Miles Swastikas came from ancient India , so comparing India to Middle East it is consider the West my friend.
Robert Miles The BIBLE is from West (written by Ancient Greeks aka Javan) but all the story mention in the Bible and the real tribe of Israelite is from the East.
Torah origin from the so called middle East (Asia) claimed by them Japheth (White Races).
+Robert Miles lmfoa brother.. Javan/Yavan is ancient Greece. In Indian (Hindu) texts greeces also known as Yavan-as.
Around 8:18 the Japanese sinsa mention Dharma came through SE-ASIA?
It's totally make sense now why Japanese kempo(Kam/Kem-bo) practitioner claimed their fighting art is a prayer stance(Similar to Angkor kem-mae/Kam-mae/Khmer/
khom-met fighting stances) depicted on Angkor Wat/Vat.
Our history is a bunch of cow shit been distored bad.
Example western claimed Cambodia became /converted to Buddhist after 13 centuary a.d?? haha...
But yet ancient Chinese Scriptures from around 5 centuary claiming ancient khmer/Kam-mae help translated buddha manuscripts to ancient china.
Striking is ok but, the throws are unrealistic,
I think that's a super fair point. What made you say it?
I really enjoy my kempo practice and I'm very novice, but yeah... There's no way my tiny hands hold a wrist or palm long enough for the throws I'm seeing the higher belts do without some intermediation on my part. It's as if the pin takes too long before the throw (for me, as of now, anyway) whereas in the tiny bit of aikido I attended they sort of melted together faster. I could get someone off-balance and away from me with an imperfect grab. Not in kempo... Miss that pin and all momentum vanishes. In aikido my smaller size felt like a greater advantage. In kempo I'm supposed to stay much closer to the opponent for more... "love taps." And I practice, but in my head I'm just unlikely to be powerful and fast and accurate enough for some of the techniques to seem useful.
If you made it this far, does any of that make sense to you in your experience? Or is my novice status showing?
please educate yourself about that matter!
jujitsu
So really cool martial art. But I don't like the cult like aspect of it.
No disrespect, but this looks kinda 'cultish'.🤔
I like the spiritual part of Shorin ji kenpo where they recite creed on virtue. I hope Christian karate practitioners should also have such kind of martial art practice and culture to imbibed the learners spiritual self discipline that they may not become like some people who learn Martial Arts to become tough guys bully since they are trained in the art of killing---Karate. Christian karate practitioners should become like the apostle of Jesus who draw his sword and cut the ear of one of those soldiers arresting Jesus, his master or Lord. this I think is a practical Christian and down- to- earth one. he will not hesitate to strike in defense of his life, limbs, spouse, relatives or stranger.
Jesus was being arrested for breaking the law, do you think people should attack the cops arresting their friends?
@@spladam3845 yes
Michael the archangel is the patron saint of warriors. I always think of him when practice martial arts. In fact I silently recite the Michael the archangel prayer while everyone else is doing the dojo creed.
@@raywest7222 Good luck with that, hard to help your friends while doing time for assaulting a police officer.
@@raywest7222 you'd be better off calling a good lawyer and recording the evidence. Violence just playing into the hands of the violent. Which is why MLK and Ghandi rejected it. Just ask what would Jesus do?
The history told here is not the real history of shorinji kempo.
The Mormons of martial arts.
+Dane Goulter why's that?
When they come to your door, they kick it in. haha
😂🤣😂🤣
@@vandamme6379 also 😂😂😂🤣
terry McCann aka a good boxer (and the narrators most famous role) would knock 7 shades of the brown stuff of of these little yellow men in pajamas
@The Last Spartan
"I could be so good for you"
Here let me fix what you said... The last spartan - : "I'm a bigot"
I second that. "The swastika is a symbol of peace" but this guy was ex-military and in league with far right-wing Japanese nationalists, and they are covered in swastikas like it was the only important Hindu/Buddhist symbol. Fucking disgusting to realize just how right-wing the karate community tends to be.
That is complete nonsense - that there were right-wing-nationalist in the Japanese Karate community 30 years ago is beyond doubt. There were right-wing-nationalists in the real-estate-business and a lot of other places as well. That does not indicate that there are more nationalists in the karate-community than anywhere else, does it.
And what does the swastika have to do with that? I has been used in Far-Eastern religions and in North Scandinavian paganism and everywhere else in between for a millenium or two. Just because Nazis have used for about one century - in a totally diffent grafic context - doesn't make every other swastika a right-wing symbol.
+Octopussyist Why was it specifically the far right wing in the karate community that this "temple" is associated with?
Evera Outta
I don't know, but it may have been. Then again, what is far right wing in Japan. It is obviously not the far right-wing that wants Japan to rise from the ashes and become a superpower again - like the neo-nazi right wing in Germany. And there was also no-one talking about them being superiour to others, only to do everything to make the country the best it can be, period. That is very chauvenistic, but can I blame anyone for wanting to put all their effort into protecting and making their country perfect - whatever that means. No I can't.
That right wing powers will have had more power to grow after WWII in Japan than in Germany, however, is a clear fact. Just like the USA was forced to cooperate with the Mafia in Italy they were forced to cooperate with Yakuza to gain any control at all. And Yakuza, more than Mafiosi, have their nose in legal businesses and overtly mingle in politics.
I had a lot to do with Karate people from Japan in the 80es. I did not find any of them extreme in any direction. But these Shorinji Kenpo guys are not average.
Octopussyist Any group that fraternizes with right-wing groups, and does not explicitly state they are for keeping welfare for the homeless and poor and sick, are effectively (and not just in claim) anti-pimp but pro-sex-worker (possible, since the SJK group seems to have had a literal war with the yakuza in the countryside), and are pro-LGBT ... is not someone I trust to follow the Mahayana Buddhist canon. Sad thing is, I so strongly doubt almost anyone does follow it, anywhere, anymore, that I'm not a Buddhist myself.
Evera Outta What is right wing to you? Basically it only means to the more right wing than the middle. So it really means nothing before we decide what is average in that particular country at that particular time.
Otherwise we will soon be talking bullshit just like those who call others left wing because they advocate public health insurance.
And still: None of the main stream Karate-guys from Japan that I met in the Eighties had any extreme political views. That was the point I was commenting in the first place.