back when i trained kempo in the early 2000's the teachers would always say everything is secret - our principles, our gradings, our self defense techniques ..all of it, even the classes to some degree.. nowadays it's all on the internet
I appreciate this information. Just one thing, the principle of intention. When someone grabs you like that, their intention is to punch you very quickly with the other hand.
Sure love your videos the question I have is about forms in the beginning you do short form Longhorns on left side and right side but as you progressed to why is it on a one-way is it left and right built-in or was it because Ed Park I was just right-handed
Sorry I'm just getting back to you. We do short one on the right side, then complete it in long one on the second set of blocks. I've heard so many reasons for right handedness in Kenpo and they all seem legit, including how the right is naturally stronger, etc.
4:42 as much as i love kempo and martial arts as a whole, i see the biggest down-fall across the board as not training for intensity, reason being is because an aggressor is hellishly aggressive! they aren't at all passive, patient or slow, they're aggressively fast, you stepping back to pull them off weight is negated because they're already stepping through at 100x the speed you are 9/10 times, unless you 'try' to match that intensity spontaneously in which case the aggressor will still be moving in faster, but only by maybe 15-20x, so they're still not pulled off weight.. & now you're left in an area of improvisation... unless you train against realistic degrees of intensity which few clubs do, but stepping back and pulling opponent off weight I don't trust in 9/10 situations unless you're just doing martial art magic tricks for your friends. I've had a lot of success seizing via sticky hands and quickly tugging in conjunction with pulling them into a kick or if they're steam rolling i'll always step to the side and throw a fast and strong kick in which is enough to leave them contemplating a broken rib for a while whilst you get away or finish them off. so just remember an opponent is like a steam train and you're the track it follows. Osu
Too much theorizing and conceptualizing. The first moved should make the opponent realize they just made the biggest mistake of their life. There is too many assumptions in this art pertaining to how the opponent will react. If a guy is attacking you its because he thinks he can beat you and will be determined to do so. The approach taken here is laughable. Just because you think you're checking an opponents height or width doesn't mean they think you have control over it. You know, I used to love JKD and FMA until I started training with real fighters. I used to parrot the typical "these arts are too deadly for mma" baloney until I finally admitted to myself that the years I spent training them did not equip me for real fighting.
David Risselada I agree with much of what you say. But JKD now is not the JKD I studied under Larry Hartsell. JKD has added Silat which just doesn't work and become less direct. Check out Larry's book "Entering, to trapping to grappling." Larry stressed enter and then destroy. All these fancy passing and trapping patterns just do not work. A great combo is boxing with judo or Muay Thai with judo.
I see a comparison which are really apples to oranges here. MMA was designed for the athlete, a combative sport. MMA you see fighters geared for a competitive situation in which it's athlete vs athlete who trains hours a day almost everyday. Most people are not athletes are aspire to be. Kenpo was not created for athletes, like Okinawan karate, it was created for the average person to be able to protect them selves from a punk on the street. 9 times out of 10 the street punk is not an athlete either. The purposes of the two are massively different, the audience they are geared towards, are different people. Kenpo works for what it was designed for, it has decades worth of being proven. Many cops choose it for what it gives them, being options for such scenarios. You may find it laughable yet it has given people, to include cops, the tools to stay alive. As far as this video is concerned, it's only showing basic principles that most arts share. Even MMA understands these principles, they are just addressed differently. They may not verbalize them in the same way or use them in the same way, but they are there. In the end people understand their use case scenario. If you want to be a ring fighter, then yes MMA is where to start looking. However if you just want self defense on the street, there are many better options with that in mind. I leave it up to them.
back when i trained kempo in the early 2000's the teachers would always say everything is secret - our principles, our gradings, our self defense techniques ..all of it, even the classes to some degree.. nowadays it's all on the internet
Thank you Sir! OSU!
I appreciate this information. Just one thing, the principle of intention. When someone grabs you like that, their intention is to punch you very quickly with the other hand.
Sure love your videos the question I have is about forms in the beginning you do short form Longhorns on left side and right side but as you progressed to why is it on a one-way is it left and right built-in or was it because Ed Park I was just right-handed
Sorry I'm just getting back to you. We do short one on the right side, then complete it in long one on the second set of blocks. I've heard so many reasons for right handedness in Kenpo and they all seem legit, including how the right is naturally stronger, etc.
Kenpo can be done on both sides, but you're right. Kenpo is basically a right handed system, but it can be adapted to the individual.
4:42 as much as i love kempo and martial arts as a whole, i see the biggest down-fall across the board as not training for intensity, reason being is because an aggressor is hellishly aggressive! they aren't at all passive, patient or slow, they're aggressively fast, you stepping back to pull them off weight is negated because they're already stepping through at 100x the speed you are 9/10 times, unless you 'try' to match that intensity spontaneously in which case the aggressor will still be moving in faster, but only by maybe 15-20x, so they're still not pulled off weight.. & now you're left in an area of improvisation... unless you train against realistic degrees of intensity which few clubs do, but stepping back and pulling opponent off weight I don't trust in 9/10 situations unless you're just doing martial art magic tricks for your friends. I've had a lot of success seizing via sticky hands and quickly tugging in conjunction with pulling them into a kick or if they're steam rolling i'll always step to the side and throw a fast and strong kick in which is enough to leave them contemplating a broken rib for a while whilst you get away or finish them off. so just remember an opponent is like a steam train and you're the track it follows. Osu
You should move faster.
Too much theorizing and conceptualizing. The first moved should make the opponent realize they just made the biggest mistake of their life. There is too many assumptions in this art pertaining to how the opponent will react. If a guy is attacking you its because he thinks he can beat you and will be determined to do so. The approach taken here is laughable. Just because you think you're checking an opponents height or width doesn't mean they think you have control over it. You know, I used to love JKD and FMA until I started training with real fighters. I used to parrot the typical "these arts are too deadly for mma" baloney until I finally admitted to myself that the years I spent training them did not equip me for real fighting.
David Risselada
I agree with much of what you say. But JKD now is not the JKD I studied under Larry Hartsell. JKD has added Silat which just doesn't work and become less direct. Check out Larry's book "Entering, to trapping to grappling." Larry stressed enter and then destroy. All these fancy passing and trapping patterns just do not work. A great combo is boxing with judo or Muay Thai with judo.
I see a comparison which are really apples to oranges here. MMA was designed for the athlete, a combative sport. MMA you see fighters geared for a competitive situation in which it's athlete vs athlete who trains hours a day almost everyday. Most people are not athletes are aspire to be. Kenpo was not created for athletes, like Okinawan karate, it was created for the average person to be able to protect them selves from a punk on the street. 9 times out of 10 the street punk is not an athlete either. The purposes of the two are massively different, the audience they are geared towards, are different people. Kenpo works for what it was designed for, it has decades worth of being proven. Many cops choose it for what it gives them, being options for such scenarios. You may find it laughable yet it has given people, to include cops, the tools to stay alive. As far as this video is concerned, it's only showing basic principles that most arts share. Even MMA understands these principles, they are just addressed differently. They may not verbalize them in the same way or use them in the same way, but they are there. In the end people understand their use case scenario. If you want to be a ring fighter, then yes MMA is where to start looking. However if you just want self defense on the street, there are many better options with that in mind. I leave it up to them.
Excellent video sir! Kenpo is an excellent martial art!
Thank you.
Dam Dennis, what happened to your black hair? I remember being in Admore with OShea, Damiano, Brennan in the 80's. Time has gone bye...
It's all growing in the wrong places at my age. Take care