I really enjoy your videos. I just earned my first black belt in Kenpo this past June at the young age of 50. Looking forward to learning as much as I can and you're videos certainly help.
Hey! Congratulations! Which Kenpo do you train in? Traditional Parker? Tracy? Kenpo 5.0? AKKI? Thank you for the comment, I appreciate it and hope the channel continues to provide content you like :)
The school I attend is more of Tracy style school. However, we also have a instructor and a student that trained years ago who were trained in Traditional Parker so we get to experience both. Our head instructor has also been training in BJJ for a few years and will sometimes show us some that. I noticed in your black belt testing video your uniforms and a lot of what you said was very much luck our school. Been a subscriber ever since.
Thanks for those video. I learn a lot. I'm a black belt of Shōrin-ryū style but I'm switching to Kenpo. I'm not from US but Canada. So we are under Nick Cerio which now I know he was a student of Ed Parker. I will continue to watch your video, continue to do so. Thanks
I have seen a lot of your videos and while I am not a student of kenpo, I find myself super into the videos you post. Always informative. This is one of the best ones yet. Thank you for taking the time to educate others. You have inspired me to do the same for my art. A humble bow to you sir.
Every time I watch this video, I feel the emotions that everyone was holding back. You can still tell they mourn Mr. Parker even after all these years.
Interesting and informative. Thank you! Because I am traditionally trained, these things have significance to me. I have the original Tracy's patch on my dress gi. It is yellow and has a green and red dragon over a black "T" with Tracy's in red on the bottom. My instructor used to joke that it looked like a dollar sign $ lol We had a good time, but don't misunderstand, when it came to practicing the art, we were very serious, and our studio dominated local competitions.
Thank you very much! I love the message behind the new Crest, though I am sad about the state of affairs over the original. So much history thrown away from stupid politics.
I remember that scene in The Perfect Weapon where Master Lo explains to Speakman the tiger and the dragon. It all goes to wisdom and the question of aggressiveness and responsibility.
Wow I am impressed and also intrigued by the various Kenpo Karate patches, as well as their historical and philosophical meanings. Thank you for going into articulate, concise, clear and comprehensible, explanation of what each aspect of the various Kenpo Karate crests mean, represent and symbolise! I truly enjoyed the thorough detailed chronology, of Kenpo Karate, over the three detailed videos, that you have showcased, here on your TH-cam channel Sensei Dan! I am looking forward to your next martial arts coverage, of which no doubt I am certain will be, of the utmost excellence and educational. I hope your week has been going well thus far. Wishing you the very best as usual. From Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺, Osu! 👍 ☺ ✌
I am excited about the next series as well :) We're looking at honestly a January release, we want to do it properly. We have a couple of more videos this month and then taking a holiday break (mainly to work on the next series) and then in 2019 we put a lot of new things in motion.
Art of One Dojo glad to know so, I am actually putting the final touches, as you can see to the research I am conducting, compiling and contributing to. Please let me know if there might be something specifically, that you might like to address or cover, Kyokushin wise. I thank you wholeheartedly, along with your production team, for taking the time, dedication, as well as the honourable respect, that you all invest, dedicate and help in promoting each art in your videos. I am truly anticipating your next video projects, especially those coming along in 2019! 👍 ☺ ✌
Nice job yet again sir. Im a Second-Degree Black belt in American Kenpo under Grandmaster Dennis Tosten; not sure if your familiar but his was the 1st Kenpo school in Philadelphia going back to 1967 which later became know as Amerikick Kenpo Karate. He was pronoted to incredibly high rank of 7th degree and trained and traveled with SGM Parker until his passing and also attended the funeral. He also studied under the Tracys and Joe Palanzo. I would love to share our patch with you but unfortunately we cannot upload pictures in the comnent section of TH-cam. Only Facebook. Thanjs again for anotger great video.
I am no AKK practitionner, but I must say it is a very beautiful and meaningful crest with much research behind it. Students of the art must be proud to wear it (if embracing this philsophy and those technics of course).
Fantastic video... again! This was very informative about the background and reasoning for the crest. While I like the comment about kenpo being in the heart, I think it lends itself to too many people claiming cultish garbage. Personally I think anything that you are passionate about will be in your heart. While this information will not make me a better fighter, it does give me more insight into the intentions and thought processes of the creator of it.
Nice video. The crest was most widely seen by those outside of the EPAK world when Elvis started adorning his guitars with it. Back in the day, these were water-transfer decals (think model cars and airplanes).
Fun fact, Elvis didn't put the crest on his guitar...his brother David Stanley did on a whim, and was afraid Elvis wouldn't like it but Elvis did and decided to use it :)
Awesome video! In that bygone era known as "The 1980s", I studied Kenpo for almost two years, achieving the rank of Advanced Purple Belt. This video brought back so many memories: meeting Ed Parker and Michael Pick, tournaments, hours in the dojo, sparring classes, etc. Thirty-one years later, I still have my original Kenpo Gi, wonderfully faded with the original crest and associated patches. Oddly enough, not being allowed to wear it amidst the ensuing politics following Mr. Parker's passing was one of the primary reasons I held off on returning to Kenpo. These extremely well-made videos of yours has me considering to do so one day and for that I thank you. Question: Where can I find the Tiger & Dragon artwork displayed at 1:40? I loved the detail in it. Thanks again!
This artwork was on the cover of "The Kenpo Compendium" by Lee Wedlake, listed below. The inside cover of the book said the artwork was public domain so I have included the google link below as well. Thank you and I'm glad you liked the video and I really hope you give Kenpo a try again :) Kenpo Compendium: www.amazon.com/Kenpo-Karate-Compendium-Forms-American/dp/1583948511 Artwork: www.northatlanticbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/KenpoKarateCompendium.jpg
You would really enjoy talking with Professor Wayne Carman, Master Jim Perkins and Bill Wallace. They could share some interesting stories with you that tie into all of this.
Shorinji Kempo used to use the Buddhist manji, which has two variations. The one they used was the omote manji, which represents love and compassion. The inverted one is known as the ura manji, which represents intelligence and power, and was also the one which the German Nazis "borrowed" during WWII. It wasn't until 2005 that the world organization finally changed it to the so'en, or paired circles. While many Japanese still have hard feelings about the symbol being changed, one nice thing about the updated symbol is that it represents both sides of the manji.
I remember when Ed Parker started the IKKA, back in 1966-67 when I lived in LA and fought on Chris Armstrong's Karate team. We were aligned with the IKKA and I remember when Ed introduced the new patch...
That is what we have currently for Kenpo. I will circle back later and do more Kenpo videos but first we want to put some other arts out there too. We are currently working on "The Origin of Kyokushin", which will also likely be a 3 part video.
There will be more in the future, I have much more to go over as it's my home art and I love it, but we still want to mix it up. This was the "Kenpo Trilogy" but there will be other topics to revisit. I want to go over the Kenpo freestyling, and I want to do a video on Steve Muhammad and his venture from Kenpo and the BKF, as well as covering famous Kenpoists. We're going to mix up the arts too, the next series will be a Kyokushin Trilogy in January :)
Phenomenal series ☯️🐉🐯♿. I truly enjoyed learning more about Kenpo. Things I knew about. And the great history of Kenpo. Thanks PS never stop learning 👍🏻
I am not, nor was I ever, a Kempo practitioner. But, as a Okinawan karatedo practitioner for a significant number of years, I am very aware of the importance of Ed Parker's Kempo and the impact it had on martial arts in America. I really enjoyed this video. Thank you so much for posting it.
Great video and great instructions on the origin of the kenpo patch and it’s symbolism. Did a great job in this video. Have you thought about the Chinese origin of karate, namely kungfu, like the Shaolin system.
That might be something I explore in future videos. We're working on more "Origin" videos of different arts to try to tell the stories of other ways to practice.
Gudday Mr. Dan. Thank you for sharing the obvious love of your art and appreciation that you have towards the martial arts. You are building a strong channel and an even more appreciative community around the discussion table. Looking forward to your next piece. You on FB? Msg privately if you consent to a connection. Totally understand otherwise no loss of face either way 🥋👊🏼🙏🏼
Hey Mr Dan. I wanted to let you know that the IKKA has been officially reorganized. Darlene Parker (Mr Parker's oldest daughter) is the administrator (as she holds all the rights to Mr Parker's intellectual property) with Mr Tommy Burks (9th Dan) and Mr Tom Graves (8th Dan) as primary advisers. Others on the advisory board include Mr Larry Kongaika (7th Dan) and Mr Greg Hildebrand (6th Dan). Figured you would be interested.
I'm looking forward to doing them :) We have a Kyokushin Sensei helping us with the episodes for accuracy and information and I'm excited to put that series together :)
Hello my name is JP Scarano and I am a 5th dan in Kenpo as well as you are. I finished watching all 3 videos you made and you opened many eyes to what has happened to Kenpo since Mr. PARKER died. I feel there is a few more things you forgot to mention like being able to add other ranks from other systems to Kenpo and not learn the next ranks at all. Also being able to get ranks after only a few years like it was nothing.
That is a good point but that will depend on the school. In the ones I trained in, if someone from another art came in with a belt, they were allowed to keep it but they were frozen at that level until they caught up to the same rank in Kenpo. Ranking is way too loose in Kenpo, some schools follow fair protocol, others just give rank away. The videos dance a line on the politics as they do and I didn't want to go too far down roads like that. I hope you liked the series! :)
@@ArtofOneDojo I love the series and makes me proud to be part of Kenpo. But I feel we need a wake up call. Too many political BS along with so much more.
Another informative presentation! I enjoyed it very much. My only contention is that the heart is not beneath the left lapel as people so often gesture. It is smack dab in the middle, beneath the sternum. It's why CPR compressions are performed there. A small matter to be sure. Still a fun presentation! It got my thumb up!
Os I also practice boxing Bjj and American Kempo! I think you guys should really make a video on the history of the kick of birth. Where did this come from and what was before it? Did Mr. Parker invent the kick of birth?
You should do an episode on Steve nasty Anderson the 10 time world champion I'm pretty sure they give them credits for the Superman punch which came from the California blitz they're also a Tracy martial arts school
@@ArtofOneDojo The purple represents one's Energy. The yellow represents an opponent or an obstacle. Furthermore, one's lead leg and arm attacks the opponent's Lead Center Line.
Every school does something different. A lot of schools I know will give out a sword. Some MIGHT give out rings, but the ring we saw in the Perfect Weapon was fictional, that is not a real tradition, unless like I said a school chooses to.
The name o f the song is called "A Truly Powerful Force", and it's a stock music track from Audioblocks.com. You will need a subscription to get it. www.audioblocks.com/stock-audio/a-truly-powerful-force-93767.html
Hi really enjoy your videos great work I was told by other kenpo friends that the Parker family went to court and trade mark / copy written the Ed Parker name, patch, concepts , and even the techniques and other things related to his system do you know anything about this or is it just rumors. Thanks
There were some lawsuits over licensing rights, but I don't know the gory details. I heard there was a bit of conflict and I know that is were a lot of new politics and division in the system is coming from, but honestly I've tried to steer away from that. I love Kenpo and I wanted to focus on showing people how great the art is and to tell its rich history without getting into any of the politics that are involved. Thank you for supporting the videos!
In my Kali class last night we did some empty hand stuff and I knew my partner was doing some techniques that were either wing chun or kenpo. I asked him what other martial arts he did and he said some three workeded japanese sounding, then the word kenpo, and then he said kung fu. In my mind kung fu is seperate, I said I was a big fan of kenpo then asked what style of kung fu; he seemed annoyed and repeated this elongated pronunciation of kenpo and said kung fu. Oh okay . lol
Master Ken is the Grandmaster of all things! I mean, he's such a master that he has to wear an 11th degree black belt ontop of his red and white master belt! Ken is awesome (and he's a Kenpo practitioner in real life!)
It's funny that you are talking about American Kempo Karate, I love that art! That is one of my arts that I practice! I study this along with BJJ and boxing. love this art!
It is one I'm looking into :) We have several arts we're working on. The next couple of series is Kyokushin and Wing Chun. Ninjitsu is one I'm considering, as well as BJJ, Judo, and Shotokan. I want to do them all eventually!
As a symboligist, I disagree with the meaning of the dragon and the tiger. The dragon represents darkness, and the tiger represents light. The goal is to take you away from light into the darkness… to trap you not just physically, but also spiritually. Stay as a tiger, you’ll remain in the light spiritually and physically. You can not be controled, you are free.
This is not correct. Animals can take on many different meanings depending on context. In the context of Kenpo, the tiger is Earthly strength and the dragon is Wisdom. Light and darkness have no bearing in this particular use.
@@ArtofOneDojo I respect what you are saying 100%, but I'm only speaking from an esoteric stand point, not from an exoteric stand point. My apologies if I have said anything wrong. Anyways, I love your channel, big fan here, you make awesome videos, thanks!
I've had a lot of people ask me why I left out multiple organizations, and the truth is I couldn't name them all but I was focusing on the ones that are still trying to carry on what they felt was the continuation of Ed Parker's system. I've met Steve Muhammad and he's an incredible martial artist and honestly I was hoping to devote a whole episode to the BKF system. I think he's doing amazing work.
I would definitely consider it. We're getting a ton of requests for arts, which means people seem to be liking this type of episode. We are currently working on a Kyokushin mini series like this one, and also in the early stages of a Wing Chun episode, so we're trying to explore a bunch of different arts. Kajukenbo is definitely on the list of considerations :)
Can you clarify the question a little? They made their own BKF patch and emblem, that is there Kenpo emblem. Or do you mean the a different version of the Crest?
Uh...Dick Tercell anyone? Really appreciate the Kenpo histories, found out I'm a 24 series even though my teacher seems to have made the switch as early as 1979. But how can you talk about the Kenpo patch but not mention the student who designed it.
I really enjoy your videos. I just earned my first black belt in Kenpo this past June at the young age of 50. Looking forward to learning as much as I can and you're videos certainly help.
Hey! Congratulations! Which Kenpo do you train in? Traditional Parker? Tracy? Kenpo 5.0? AKKI?
Thank you for the comment, I appreciate it and hope the channel continues to provide content you like :)
The school I attend is more of Tracy style school. However, we also have a instructor and a student that trained years ago who were trained in Traditional Parker so we get to experience both. Our head instructor has also been training in BJJ for a few years and will sometimes show us some that. I noticed in your black belt testing video your uniforms and a lot of what you said was very much luck our school. Been a subscriber ever since.
Congratulations
Thanks for those video. I learn a lot. I'm a black belt of Shōrin-ryū style but I'm switching to Kenpo. I'm not from US but Canada. So we are under Nick Cerio which now I know he was a student of Ed Parker. I will continue to watch your video, continue to do so. Thanks
Please more breakdown of in-depth different styles of Karate!! No one else on youtube has done it so far except you guys!
In January we will have a 3 part Kyokushin series, and after that probably Wing Chun. We definitely want to do more of these :)
When I saw that you had a video about PATCHES, I was ready to skip it!
But I am SO glad I didn't!
There is such amazing martial arts history here!
I have seen a lot of your videos and while I am not a student of kenpo, I find myself super into the videos you post. Always informative. This is one of the best ones yet. Thank you for taking the time to educate others. You have inspired me to do the same for my art. A humble bow to you sir.
Thank you Sir, I greatly appreciate that. Hopefully the channel continues to deliver :)
Every time I watch this video, I feel the emotions that everyone was holding back. You can still tell they mourn Mr. Parker even after all these years.
Interesting and informative. Thank you! Because I am traditionally trained, these things have significance to me. I have the original Tracy's patch on my dress gi. It is yellow and has a green and red dragon over a black "T" with Tracy's in red on the bottom. My instructor used to joke that it looked like a dollar sign $ lol We had a good time, but don't misunderstand, when it came to practicing the art, we were very serious, and our studio dominated local competitions.
Really enjoyed this trilogy on American Kenpo. Myself and my students have proudly embraced the updated crest available from EPAKS.
Thank you very much! I love the message behind the new Crest, though I am sad about the state of affairs over the original. So much history thrown away from stupid politics.
I remember that scene in The Perfect Weapon where Master Lo explains to Speakman the tiger and the dragon.
It all goes to wisdom and the question of aggressiveness and responsibility.
Wow I am impressed and also intrigued by the various Kenpo Karate patches, as well as their historical and philosophical meanings. Thank you for going into articulate, concise, clear and comprehensible, explanation of what each aspect of the various Kenpo Karate crests mean, represent and symbolise!
I truly enjoyed the thorough detailed chronology, of Kenpo Karate, over the three detailed videos, that you have showcased, here on your TH-cam channel Sensei Dan!
I am looking forward to your next martial arts coverage, of which no doubt I am certain will be, of the utmost excellence and educational. I hope your week has been going well thus far. Wishing you the very best as usual. From Melbourne, Australia 🇦🇺, Osu! 👍 ☺ ✌
I am excited about the next series as well :) We're looking at honestly a January release, we want to do it properly. We have a couple of more videos this month and then taking a holiday break (mainly to work on the next series) and then in 2019 we put a lot of new things in motion.
Art of One Dojo glad to know so, I am actually putting the final touches, as you can see to the research I am conducting, compiling and contributing to. Please let me know if there might be something specifically, that you might like to address or cover, Kyokushin wise.
I thank you wholeheartedly, along with your production team, for taking the time, dedication, as well as the honourable respect, that you all invest, dedicate and help in promoting each art in your videos.
I am truly anticipating your next video projects, especially those coming along in 2019! 👍 ☺ ✌
Nice job yet again sir. Im a Second-Degree Black belt in American Kenpo under Grandmaster Dennis Tosten; not sure if your familiar but his was the 1st Kenpo school in Philadelphia going back to 1967 which later became know as Amerikick Kenpo Karate. He was pronoted to incredibly high rank of 7th degree and trained and traveled with SGM Parker until his passing and also attended the funeral. He also studied under the Tracys and Joe Palanzo. I would love to share our patch with you but unfortunately we cannot upload pictures in the comnent section of TH-cam. Only Facebook. Thanjs again for anotger great video.
I am no AKK practitionner, but I must say it is a very beautiful and meaningful crest with much research behind it. Students of the art must be proud to wear it (if embracing this philsophy and those technics of course).
Fantastic video... again! This was very informative about the background and reasoning for the crest. While I like the comment about kenpo being in the heart, I think it lends itself to too many people claiming cultish garbage. Personally I think anything that you are passionate about will be in your heart. While this information will not make me a better fighter, it does give me more insight into the intentions and thought processes of the creator of it.
Nice video. The crest was most widely seen by those outside of the EPAK world when Elvis started adorning his guitars with it. Back in the day, these were water-transfer decals (think model cars and airplanes).
Fun fact, Elvis didn't put the crest on his guitar...his brother David Stanley did on a whim, and was afraid Elvis wouldn't like it but Elvis did and decided to use it :)
@@ArtofOneDojo First I heard of that! Interesting.
Enjoying the channel. Subscribed! (3rd BB EPAK)
Awesome series a frequent reminder of why I always had an initial interest in Kenpo.
I went back training in my dojo again. OSU!
Nice! I'm really happy to hear you're doing well and getting back into training! Best of luck my friend!
Awesome video! In that bygone era known as "The 1980s", I studied Kenpo for almost two years, achieving the rank of Advanced Purple Belt. This video brought back so many memories: meeting Ed Parker and Michael Pick, tournaments, hours in the dojo, sparring classes, etc. Thirty-one years later, I still have my original Kenpo Gi, wonderfully faded with the original crest and associated patches.
Oddly enough, not being allowed to wear it amidst the ensuing politics following Mr. Parker's passing was one of the primary reasons I held off on returning to Kenpo. These extremely well-made videos of yours has me considering to do so one day and for that I thank you.
Question: Where can I find the Tiger & Dragon artwork displayed at 1:40? I loved the detail in it. Thanks again!
This artwork was on the cover of "The Kenpo Compendium" by Lee Wedlake, listed below. The inside cover of the book said the artwork was public domain so I have included the google link below as well.
Thank you and I'm glad you liked the video and I really hope you give Kenpo a try again :)
Kenpo Compendium: www.amazon.com/Kenpo-Karate-Compendium-Forms-American/dp/1583948511
Artwork: www.northatlanticbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/KenpoKarateCompendium.jpg
You would really enjoy talking with Professor Wayne Carman, Master Jim Perkins and Bill Wallace. They could share some interesting stories with you that tie into all of this.
Shorinji Kempo used to use the Buddhist manji, which has two variations. The one they used was the omote manji, which represents love and compassion. The inverted one is known as the ura manji, which represents intelligence and power, and was also the one which the German Nazis "borrowed" during WWII. It wasn't until 2005 that the world organization finally changed it to the so'en, or paired circles. While many Japanese still have hard feelings about the symbol being changed, one nice thing about the updated symbol is that it represents both sides of the manji.
Great series presented with balance. Thanks
I remember when Ed Parker started the IKKA, back in 1966-67 when I lived in LA and fought on Chris Armstrong's Karate team. We were aligned with the IKKA and I remember when Ed introduced the new patch...
You do a very professional entertaining production! Keep up the great work!!!
Hey man great video keep it up!
Cool video Dan! Keep up the great work! 😊👍
Just finished rewatching this three part series, great stuff! Recently subscribed, love the content!
Awesome testament to Great Grandmaster Parker....... love this channel
Boom! Another great historical video on Kenpo. Keel them coming!
That is what we have currently for Kenpo. I will circle back later and do more Kenpo videos but first we want to put some other arts out there too. We are currently working on "The Origin of Kyokushin", which will also likely be a 3 part video.
So much love for Ed Parker.
Wow very professional videos super impressive!! Thank you sir
Yes more kenpo please kenpo videos I love it it's gonna be next style I practice
There will be more in the future, I have much more to go over as it's my home art and I love it, but we still want to mix it up. This was the "Kenpo Trilogy" but there will be other topics to revisit. I want to go over the Kenpo freestyling, and I want to do a video on Steve Muhammad and his venture from Kenpo and the BKF, as well as covering famous Kenpoists.
We're going to mix up the arts too, the next series will be a Kyokushin Trilogy in January :)
An outstanding explanation on the Crest
Phenomenal series ☯️🐉🐯♿. I truly enjoyed learning more about Kenpo. Things I knew about. And the great history of Kenpo. Thanks PS never stop learning 👍🏻
Thank you! I enjoyed making these. The next series will be a 3 part Kyokushin set coming out in January.
I am not, nor was I ever, a Kempo practitioner. But, as a Okinawan karatedo practitioner for a significant number of years, I am very aware of the importance of Ed Parker's Kempo and the impact it had on martial arts in America. I really enjoyed this video. Thank you so much for posting it.
Great video and great instructions on the origin of the kenpo patch and it’s symbolism. Did a great job in this video. Have you thought about the Chinese origin of karate, namely kungfu, like the Shaolin system.
That might be something I explore in future videos. We're working on more "Origin" videos of different arts to try to tell the stories of other ways to practice.
Keep it up Dan another great video.
Thank you!
Gudday Mr. Dan. Thank you for sharing the obvious love of your art and appreciation that you have towards the martial arts. You are building a strong channel and an even more appreciative community around the discussion table.
Looking forward to your next piece.
You on FB? Msg privately if you consent to a connection. Totally understand otherwise no loss of face either way 🥋👊🏼🙏🏼
Hi Mark! I have an Art of One Facebook page, you should be able to contact me through that, I check it often :) facebook.com/ArtofOneDojo/
Hey Mr Dan. I wanted to let you know that the IKKA has been officially reorganized. Darlene Parker (Mr Parker's oldest daughter) is the administrator (as she holds all the rights to Mr Parker's intellectual property) with Mr Tommy Burks (9th Dan) and Mr Tom Graves (8th Dan) as primary advisers. Others on the advisory board include Mr Larry Kongaika (7th Dan) and Mr Greg Hildebrand (6th Dan). Figured you would be interested.
🐯 Thank You!
good stuff! But I'm looking forward to when you do videos of Kyokushin Karate!
I'm looking forward to doing them :) We have a Kyokushin Sensei helping us with the episodes for accuracy and information and I'm excited to put that series together :)
@@ArtofOneDojo sucks we have to wait till the new years, however the wait will no doubt be worth it!
Awesome video! Thank you for taking the time to produce this beautiful work and to educate! Those of us within Kenpo need to learn, too.
Hello my name is JP Scarano and I am a 5th dan in Kenpo as well as you are. I finished watching all 3 videos you made and you opened many eyes to what has happened to Kenpo since Mr. PARKER died. I feel there is a few more things you forgot to mention like being able to add other ranks from other systems to Kenpo and not learn the next ranks at all. Also being able to get ranks after only a few years like it was nothing.
That is a good point but that will depend on the school. In the ones I trained in, if someone from another art came in with a belt, they were allowed to keep it but they were frozen at that level until they caught up to the same rank in Kenpo. Ranking is way too loose in Kenpo, some schools follow fair protocol, others just give rank away. The videos dance a line on the politics as they do and I didn't want to go too far down roads like that. I hope you liked the series! :)
@@ArtofOneDojo I love the series and makes me proud to be part of Kenpo. But I feel we need a wake up call. Too many political BS along with so much more.
I hear what you mean and think the same stuff all the time. @@jpscarano226
Another informative presentation! I enjoyed it very much. My only contention is that the heart is not beneath the left lapel as people so often gesture. It is smack dab in the middle, beneath the sternum. It's why CPR compressions are performed there. A small matter to be sure. Still a fun presentation! It got my thumb up!
Os I also practice boxing Bjj and American Kempo! I think you guys should really make a video on the history of the kick of birth. Where did this come from and what was before it? Did Mr. Parker invent the kick of birth?
I took Kenpo karate along time ago. The school that I went to never issued the kenpo Crest to us.
A lot of schools broke away from it too because of lawsuits from the Parker family.
hello from greece here we train the traditional parker method
Hello!
Thank you
I love the symbolism
Nice!
Our school uses the original colored ikka kenpo karate crest patch along with the universal patch
You should do an episode on Steve nasty Anderson the 10 time world champion I'm pretty sure they give them credits for the Superman punch which came from the California blitz they're also a Tracy martial arts school
Beautiful, just beautiful
I'm really enjoying the Kenpo videos. please do more styles of Kenpo and karate.
I think this is it! He's planning on doing Kyokushin karate next
Great video!! What ever happened to j.t. Will guy was great!!!
Savat Crest - Purple Horizontal Line going through a Yellow Vertical Line. Gray Background.
Like your avatar? That's cool! What is the meaning behind it?
@@ArtofOneDojo The purple represents one's Energy. The yellow represents an opponent or an obstacle. Furthermore, one's lead leg and arm attacks the opponent's Lead Center Line.
Sensei, what about the Kenpo ring, is that really used and given to new black belts ?
Every school does something different. A lot of schools I know will give out a sword. Some MIGHT give out rings, but the ring we saw in the Perfect Weapon was fictional, that is not a real tradition, unless like I said a school chooses to.
Can you give me the title of the music that plays from 14:28 to 15:23 please?
The name o f the song is called "A Truly Powerful Force", and it's a stock music track from Audioblocks.com. You will need a subscription to get it.
www.audioblocks.com/stock-audio/a-truly-powerful-force-93767.html
Hi really enjoy your videos great work
I was told by other kenpo friends that the Parker family went to court and trade mark / copy written the Ed Parker name, patch, concepts , and even the techniques and other things related to his system do you know anything about this or is it just rumors. Thanks
There were some lawsuits over licensing rights, but I don't know the gory details. I heard there was a bit of conflict and I know that is were a lot of new politics and division in the system is coming from, but honestly I've tried to steer away from that. I love Kenpo and I wanted to focus on showing people how great the art is and to tell its rich history without getting into any of the politics that are involved. Thank you for supporting the videos!
In my Kali class last night we did some empty hand stuff and I knew my partner was doing some techniques that were either wing chun or kenpo. I asked him what other martial arts he did and he said some three workeded japanese sounding, then the word kenpo, and then he said kung fu. In my mind kung fu is seperate, I said I was a big fan of kenpo then asked what style of kung fu; he seemed annoyed and repeated this elongated pronunciation of kenpo and said kung fu. Oh okay . lol
Just corious. What do you think about Master Ken and enter the dojo?
Master Ken is the Grandmaster of all things! I mean, he's such a master that he has to wear an 11th degree black belt ontop of his red and white master belt! Ken is awesome (and he's a Kenpo practitioner in real life!)
I have always had a problem with the patch; because, every time I go to pee, I see an upside down patch. :^)
Easy fix! Reapply the patch upside down so when you pee it will look proper! :D
You missed the deeper point, in that all toilets show us an upside down patch@@ArtofOneDojo
@@seanwold8173 Ah....yes I see the deeper meaning...sorry you had to flush it out of me.
Ha! :^D @@ArtofOneDojo
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It's funny that you are talking about American Kempo Karate, I love that art! That is one of my arts that I practice! I study this along with BJJ and boxing. love this art!
Can you make one about ninjutsu plz ? About about the Oregon and the roots of ninjutsu plz ???
It is one I'm looking into :) We have several arts we're working on. The next couple of series is Kyokushin and Wing Chun. Ninjitsu is one I'm considering, as well as BJJ, Judo, and Shotokan. I want to do them all eventually!
Art of One Dojo cool it’s Ninjutsu not ninjitsu
@@shinobidragon999 My bad, I apologize.
You have neglected to mention the fact that the tiger is on the line and the dragon is on the circle 🤔
As a symboligist, I disagree with the meaning of the dragon and the tiger. The dragon represents darkness, and the tiger represents light. The goal is to take you away from light into the darkness… to trap you not just physically, but also spiritually. Stay as a tiger, you’ll remain in the light spiritually and physically. You can not be controled, you are free.
This is not correct. Animals can take on many different meanings depending on context. In the context of Kenpo, the tiger is Earthly strength and the dragon is Wisdom. Light and darkness have no bearing in this particular use.
@@ArtofOneDojo I respect what you are saying 100%, but I'm only speaking from an esoteric stand point, not from an exoteric stand point. My apologies if I have said anything wrong. Anyways, I love your channel, big fan here, you make awesome videos, thanks!
I've always thought the crest looks too busy.
what about steve sanders or steve muhammad ? how come you guys didn;t say anything about
I've had a lot of people ask me why I left out multiple organizations, and the truth is I couldn't name them all but I was focusing on the ones that are still trying to carry on what they felt was the continuation of Ed Parker's system.
I've met Steve Muhammad and he's an incredible martial artist and honestly I was hoping to devote a whole episode to the BKF system. I think he's doing amazing work.
I wish I could be like Jeff speakmen he's my greatest hero 10th degree black belt martin
Hey bro-would you do a video on Kajukenbo?
I would definitely consider it. We're getting a ton of requests for arts, which means people seem to be liking this type of episode. We are currently working on a Kyokushin mini series like this one, and also in the early stages of a Wing Chun episode, so we're trying to explore a bunch of different arts. Kajukenbo is definitely on the list of considerations :)
@@ArtofOneDojo Awesome bro! Well-one thing to consider is....Kajukenbo is a cousin of Kempo...isn't it? I thought it was....
Any reason why BKF never made Kenpo Karate emblems?
Can you clarify the question a little? They made their own BKF patch and emblem, that is there Kenpo emblem. Or do you mean the a different version of the Crest?
I live in central Oregon an I seek a school.
Please check out Dick Tercell.
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Uh...Dick Tercell anyone? Really appreciate the Kenpo histories, found out I'm a 24 series even though my teacher seems to have made the switch as early as 1979. But how can you talk about the Kenpo patch but not mention the student who designed it.