The EPAK Dream Team took part in the festivities, performing in front of the enthusiastic crowd at the Shaolin Temple Cultural Festival on October 12, 2013 in Los Angeles, CA
Excellent performance I know each and every one of these fine kenpo practitioners some for many years. For 49 years I've been practicing American Kenpo. I feel a bit silly. I just learned that I could have learned all that in just 6 months. And of course have it mastered . Congratulations to all on a fine job.
granted half the performers are middle class white americans ,who perhaps took the art mainly as hobby or exercise , yet from personal experience, when attacked I revert to kenpo technique Parker was a man ahead of his time. Much respect.
The style is NOT a problem. The practicioner is the the one who dictates effectiveness not the art itself. I know AKK men who are dangerous. There are many Effective forms of Kempo jitsu but they still need you. Ever heard of Dan inosanto Benny the Jet Urquidez The Iceman Chuck Liddell Steve Muhammad Michael Jai White is kyokushin Kai kempo GSP Even Bruce freaking Lee studied kempo the Bubishi of Karate do is Kempo and the Empty hand portion of Ninjutsu is Kempo jitsu so piss on the uniformed.👿👹😈💀
Watching this I couldn't help but miss Master Jeff Speakman who would have made a fine addition to the team. I think he was recovering from throat cancer by this time, but I see Sensei Anto (Antranig Parseghian) was there. :-)
Funny thing is most people down here in the comments can't seem to tell that this is a soft demonstration of technique not actual contact. It's for show, not to incapacitate each other like in a real fight.
Excelente demostración de las defensas personales Kenpo y de sus técnicas , además de su muy buena Presentación de cada uno de los Profesores Presentes, Mis Respeto hacia cada uno de Ud,,,.....Saludos desde Concepción, Chile
Impressive Moves, Showmanship, Choreography and Entertaining, Great form of A DYNAMIC EXERCISE to Keep Fit / Healthy and Wise / combined with Proper Nutrition.
all of the guys talking trash about kenpo let me tell you guys you have a big mouth if you feel like you are better than them go challenge them then you'll know what kenpo is made
If he's been doing bjj it happens all the time. Personally an instructor for Senshido was talking shit about mma fighters, so I said I'll fight your toughest student no rules. He came to my club to fight me. My coach knew the story, so even though I was still a white belt and he out weighed me by 20 pounds, I tapped him out in the first thirty seconds. By the fourth tap out he was humbled. He's a narcissistic arrogant know it all, but shut up around me from there on. He went to gauge my eyes so I used that to get double unders and and inside reaped him, then arm barred him. It's a bad ambassador for the Senshido. He should have been more humble as a teacher.
People commenting negatively on this really don't understand what they are seeing here. The movement presented is done by practitioners that obviously do their moves in their sleep. The attitude of the demos has to be casual to prevent them from killing each other. The older men are definitely higher level martial artists.
I've been teaching Kenpo for forty years and I was so embarrassed to watch this. I'm 73 and I move as fast and strong as someone in their early fifties, or younger. Watching those two dough boys struggle to perform Kenpo was shocking to see. To cover up the inadequacies, they would scream. All that screaming everyone did was not necessary. To yell at certain points, would have been enough. i met GrandMaster Parker years ago and i can not imagine him allowing something like this to take place. I love Kenpo and one should keep their bodies in shape to work Kenpo properly. Shame, shame. That's correct, the belt only means that you've learned the knowledge, not that you have the skill to perform it. To have and maintain the skill, one has to practice their whole life time. Sifu
People who say they can't take it seriously just know that it is meant as self defense primarily in a streetfight where your opponent(s) probably don't know how to fight very well. Most sets won't be used fully or in order, you may take a couple moves from different things to fit what you need to do to stop someone from attacking you.
Those were just techniques, they're the basics put together in a practical arrangement, and they are usually practiced with a "motionless" attacker, but in American Kenpo we do multiple drills in which the attacker comes at us as if they were actually attacking us. When we have the techniques memorized from a still standpoint before you actually put it into action, it comes more naturally, and it's easier to learn.
How did you learn to speak and spell? You learned the alphabet over time to construct words and sentences to convey meaning or understanding. American Kenpo is the study of motion which Parker broke down to teach concepts. Basics: punch stance etc were the alphabets of motion. self defense/forms are concepts taught in a sequential arrangement like words in a sentence to give it meaning.
9:32 Ouch, Mr. Dye, your man took a straight right on the face from your fist, sir. Impressive as hell at how he shook it off and just kept going. /salute to you both
The higher grades condition their bodys to make closed bear hugs impossible. That's dedication. p.s. : Read some other comments. It's no sin to get fat, and in schools with kickboxing sparring there are even good fighters. It's just that the kenpo-curriculum is very academic and typical for SD arts that don't short spar their sets. But it is nice to watch and fun to move this way. There is no sin in fun either.
Always wondered whether or not the 'chit chat' among the great Chinese, Okinawan, Korean and Japanese masters was chock full of the same kind of 'trash talk' that seem to pepper so many martial arts forums. That one comment of Ed Parker's regarding Bruce Lee also gives one pause. There is much of what one sees in archival footage of interviews with Lee which is punctuated with sneer and attitude. Reviewing the evolution of so many of these styles across the past 100 years, I have come to the conclusion that the concept of replacing ego and arrogance, with humility has not yet been achieved. In reading Shoshin Nagamine Sensei's book about his life in Matsubayashi Shorin-ryu, and some of the issues he encountered, I was left with that impression. His philosophy expressed in Chapter III is very detailed, thoughtful and profound. But I don't see it reflected in much of what I read amongst 'the faithful'. There is more octagon- than dojo-mindset in these arts.
It's very interesting to see how much more advanced they are compared to me, they can pull off short form 3 without a problem while I am still learning. Very nice.
for those of you who are taking shit about this calling it a mcdojo or they are living in fantasy land let me remind you that Chuck liddell is a 5th degree black belt in American kenpo so if this is a mcdojo the you mc-dont know what your fucking talking about.
Its not even funny, a couple of the younger black belts are still flexibe to do high kicks, but the higher ranked black belts look like they'd be good in an ad for the American Heart Foundation, on obesity.
what the fuck do all those movements mean? i did karate for a few years learning kata thinking that this is a way to practice these moves in a manner that would simulate some real life experience. a lot of those moves seem silly and ineffective. im sure my comments will spark outrage but i have had enough of instructors telling me they can block any punch i throw because they can see my aura. i think a semi pro boxer would destroy any of these conmen
+ninjaman1138 Boxers can't kick. It's ok to have your own opinion. These guys above have a 'similar' formula. I know the form they did in the beginning is called 'short 3.' It's a blue belt form. The first form to use strictly techniques. Each form has a theme behind it. Each technique has extensions. It has different situations packed in as well. These techniques are no joke. Sure, these guys are fat and many in this comment section find it funny or humorous, as do I. Ed Parker on the other hand, was HUGE. Very humble and didn't strike people as a 'I can beat you up'. His intuitive ideas caught on and obviously was a body guard for Elvis Presley.
You're not wrong. It's American Kenpo 'karate'; the entire organization is like a cult. Don't take me wrong, there are most likely many Kenpo practitioners with the right mindset and have so become very good martial artists. But Ed Parker was, from my perspective, just a scam; and hence, the kata they perform have often very little practical meaning. That said, i'm not dissing kata. I believe it's an excellent way to improve your entire martial arts game (through practising the basics), but if the kata is flawed it loses all value.
The Girls are the fittest and most skilled practitioners in this video. The rest are fat guys. One must have a waistline of at lest forty six inches to be promoted beyond fourth dan in Kenpo.
When I was a boy, I found this stuff really impressive. When I was a young man training in multiple systems, I found it distracting. When I began teaching, I found it boring. When I'd been in a good few scraps and was running my own school, I became sure of what I'd suspected for a while - it's bullshit.
baldieman64 that just means you sucked at ai thats all. Works just fine for ne in my "SCRAPS". Who was your instructor? Just because you can't make something work for you doesnt mean that no one else in the world can't. Some people just suck at fighting no matter what they try and learn. 😂
clearly you just sucked at it...doesn't mean the fighting sucks. evidence has proven that martial arts are far more superior and effective than weapons...which is why the USA should erase NRA...teach security and police to fight...and only the military should be allowed to use firearms...and any person caught with firearms should receive immense punishment...like where they have to pay an amount of money so huge they will never want to do it again type of punishment...or you know...lock them up. the whole "right to bear arms" custom in America is outdated and let's be honest...they made that law when we didn't have weapons that were as deadly as today...considering today's situation..it's time to reconsider that law. military have the right...but not anyone else.
@@IDyce88 u are so lost on y our for father's included 2a, some scum bag that dosent give a rip about "only cops should have bang sticks" u feel legit enuf to hand to hand fight him over the gun w ur family at stake? Or a tyranical government rolls in,what ya gonna do " hyea! Karate!"
@@roygresser5299 better that than a random person buying a gun and going ham on a school or mall...or blowing themselves up like those two dumbass teenagers. does anyone else remember the "i hate mondays woman"
American Kenpo isn't even technically traditional. It was developed by an American Street fighter who took bits and pieces from kajukenbo, judo, boxing, and karate. He also trained with bruce lee. Ed Parker is his name
I also do kenpo and this is pure bullshit. No guard instance, no power in those kicks and punches, thats not kenpo. Kenpo strikes are meant to knock out, not to count points.
Gman6755 That's because they only used the highest ranking folks there. The 2nd 3rd and 4th degree guys when it should have been the younger, more explosive practitioners. These guys aren't even trying.
I use to train in American Kenpo got to green belt then quit shortly after. It’s all BS a bunch of guys all slapping themselves for sound effects, everyone running around with a 10th degree black belt (Reserved for the original grandmaster) every schools syllabus is different some with 24 techniques some with 16 and some with 12. The most political art you’ll ever join. All static training as you stand still while the guy multiple strikes you and makes it look like he’s totally badass. They have long techniques that ina real fight you won’t have time to do. One school wanted me to take home a bunch of manuals to study. I was like I want to learn to fight not get a degree. I’d say join a good Asian art if you want stand up karate.
its same like karate kenpo? or what? you said shaolin tample? come on... look shorinji kempo that is a shaolin temple. because if u want grade 8 black belt u must budhist... here i share u link 1. 「少林寺拳法」日体大公式映像 第51回体育研究発表実演会 2. 古い少林寺拳法の動き、かな「宇宙の平和」編-Shorinji Kempo1 3.Shorinji Kempo pressure point attacks
I love Kenpo. I've been studying for over 20 years, but they could have picked many better people for the dream team than this. I was not at all impressed.
Kind of sad really. When I was a kid I took Judo, then later Tae Kwon do, and boxing. I wasn't confident and still had a fear of fighting. Especially guys that were bigger than me. I ended up going to an Ed Parker Do jo - American Kenpo. Got up to a green belt, I was more confident but still had some fear issues. I took some time off, and returned to a different EP A/Kenpo Do jo in a different city. That is where I got my brown belt. I honestly have to say though. You can not incorporate the system into real live fight scenarios. The movements are based on the assumption that your opponent will react a certain way after each strike. In the real world it doesn't work like that. You have to take in to account weight, size, speed of your opponent. Also environment, and how many attackers and so on. What I found was I incorporated all of my different skills in Judo, TKD, Boxing, and Kenpo. I would spar and fight with a flow, as if not to think about my next move but to feel it. It is really hard to explain but when you let go and just let it happen you realize it isn't the art that makes the man, but the man that makes the art. I didn't get my black belt because in reality it was useless. I overcame my main objective - fear
Any one of the MANY Kenpo techniques will follow a specific pattern of various types of strikes and checks that are designed as a defense to a particular type of attack that is initiated by an opponent. It is a WELL KNOWN FACT within any ' reputable ' Kenpo school that an opponent MAY NOT react in a ' predictable ' manner to a strike that is delivered against them. *** Therefore, if the execution of ANY self defense technique is ' hindered ' by the opponent in such a manner as to make the Kenpo system of self defense INEFFECTIVE, the ' hindrance ' lies within the competence of the Kenpo practitioner rather than the attacker's ability TO hinder a SUCCESSFUL counter attack ! A proficient Kenpo practitioner has a whole ARSENAL of knowledge to draw from, and ANY interruption in the sequence of a particular technique would only lead to an IMMEDIATE adaptation of whatever is NEEDED to ' neutralize ' the opponent. This ABILITY to adapt is nothing more than the ability to PERCEIVE what is needed for a particular situation, and then ' accessing ' those tools that are relevant for the ' constantly evolving ' situation at hand ! Ed Parker ALWAYS conveyed this concept to his students. That is WHY you can hear Larry Tatum, Jeff Speakman, and other Kenpo instructors continually passing this concept on to anyone that THEY teach.
all of their punching is frikkin useless n performative, that shit is sooo in eficient and dangerous n a fight you would get hooked soo fast tryna do these hand dances .. HOWEVER, the kicking is ON POINT! If anybody learnt this martial art PLEASE forget anything from the belly up you ever learnt and KEEP anything from the belly down, take the kicking u learnt and move onto muay thai and add real fists and elbows then u will be complete
I can't believe how hated and disrespected this style is in the greater martial arts community, like its considered as useless as Systema which I'm sure is equally good depending on how you train it. All the people i speak to from different styles talk of how comical Kempo'ists are for hitting themselves more than their opponent and how "nobody is going to just stand there allowing you to hit them that many times" and how "over-done" everything is.. it's as if their styles don't do demonstrations or factor in how hitting a given location is going to cause a chain reaction in your opponents body opening up space for different techniques to be executed optimally, and its also suggesting their styles don't understand the concept known as 'marriage of gravity' or the principles of ricochet, they'll also make jokes at how fat and slow most Kempo practitioners are, that joke also applies to traditional Japanese Karate-ka in western countries.. and look, there's a degree of merit in that which we can't deny. Western countries are developed enough to be specialized so you don't have to be growing your food as well as earning money, you usually just sit at a desk and get some greasy sugar coated cardboard for dinner on your way home sitting in traffic, wash it all down with some carbonated sugar and then alcohol and tv to forget how pointless life (like this) is and do it all again the next day.. we're some of the most stupid but also the most privileged people in the whole world and are often too arrogant to notice let alone do anything constructive to remedy its short falls in order to live up to the infinite potential we're provided, instead we give our power to major corporations like Monsanto, McDonalds, Coke, Casinos, Cigarette manufacturers.. we're very happy to be making the super rich infinitely richer at the expense of our personal well beings whilst we toil like mice in a wheel of stress fighting or preparing to fight each-other for minimal gains or to protect what little we have. I tend to hope and aim for the insight and integrity that such training offers to help us be warriors more-so of the much needed change our society needs more than debilitating my fellow man, but there's certainly that too and its all intrinsic, you just need to expand the field of view.
first 2 minutes already see them totally messing up and skipping parts they did to steps no defense technique is 2 steps especially black belt level!!!!
What a rubbish, the opponents are all standing still until the great, great, grand, grand, grandmaster has finished with them. Such show fighting might have been impressive in the 70´s... The most famous thing Ed Parker was known for is Elvis Presley.
Excellent performance I know each and every one of these fine kenpo practitioners some for many years. For 49 years I've been practicing American Kenpo. I feel a bit silly. I just learned that I could have learned all that in just 6 months. And of course have it mastered . Congratulations to all on a fine job.
and how is that ?
The last part was sarcastic it was in reference to a person I think Jack in the Box that said he can learn that in that time.
Difficult to accomplish, but Mr. Parker never had a time minimum for advancement.
Ed Parker left such a legacy. I wish as many people knew about him as they do Bruce Lee
Ed Parker said he thought Bruce was very arrogant. Then he said after seeing Bruce Lee in action he had every right to be.
kjvwolfslayer Exactly. Many great athletes are so overconfident to the point of arrogance.
granted half the performers are middle class white americans ,who perhaps took the art mainly as hobby or exercise , yet from personal experience, when attacked I revert to kenpo technique Parker was a man ahead of his time. Much respect.
The style is NOT a problem. The practicioner is the the one who dictates effectiveness not the art itself. I know AKK men who are dangerous. There are many Effective forms of Kempo jitsu but they still need you. Ever heard of Dan inosanto Benny the Jet Urquidez The Iceman Chuck Liddell Steve Muhammad Michael Jai White is kyokushin Kai kempo GSP Even Bruce freaking Lee studied kempo the Bubishi of Karate do is Kempo and the Empty hand portion of Ninjutsu is Kempo jitsu so piss on the uniformed.👿👹😈💀
Watching this I couldn't help but miss Master Jeff Speakman who would have made a fine addition to the team. I think he was recovering from throat cancer by this time, but I see Sensei Anto (Antranig Parseghian) was there. :-)
I am a purple belt back in 2002 and still works until now
Funny thing is most people down here in the comments can't seem to tell that this is a soft demonstration of technique not actual contact. It's for show, not to incapacitate each other like in a real fight.
They are called the dream team because they dream that they can fight.
Bet ya they'd still whoop your ass
@@jakemoyle4037 Yep! Anyone who talks that kind of smack doesn't fight for diddly-squat, but boy can they back-seat drive.
@@jakemoyle4037 I think his comment was meant to be a joke and not meant to be taken seriously
I Love this Video, i See this Video so often how i can. Thank you for Sharing!
An exceptionally clear demonstration, an excellent teaching video. Thank you.
I could never reach the level of these masters....my waistline is too small...
Its called ageing... everyone struggles to maintain weight as they get older
@@jakemoyle4037 theres struggle and then not taking care of yourself
I do kenpo and this is embarrassing to watch, just goes to show its not the colour of the belt ITS HOW GOOD YOU ARE,
or how good the dojo you went to is...
They just giving away BB these days? Mr. Parker would be rolling in his grave, smh.
Loghead86 if this embarrasses you you must be something. Does anyone else know?
420jdank all these guys and ladies would spank you!
Dude it's rough. This is what people think kenpo is. There are green belts at my dojo 10x better and cleaner and more adaptable. So sad.
what is the difference between ed parkers kenpo karate and Tracy's kenpo karate?
Excelente demostración de las defensas personales Kenpo y de sus técnicas , además de su muy buena Presentación de cada uno de los Profesores Presentes, Mis Respeto hacia cada uno de Ud,,,.....Saludos desde Concepción, Chile
Impressive Moves, Showmanship, Choreography and Entertaining, Great form of A DYNAMIC EXERCISE to Keep Fit / Healthy and Wise / combined with Proper Nutrition.
all of the guys talking trash about kenpo let me tell you guys you have a big mouth if you feel like you are better than them go challenge them then you'll know what kenpo is made
for
Thank you !
For some reason Mr. mt8300 I find that hard to believe.
If he's been doing bjj it happens all the time. Personally an instructor for Senshido was talking shit about mma fighters, so I said I'll fight your toughest student no rules. He came to my club to fight me. My coach knew the story, so even though I was still a white belt and he out weighed me by 20 pounds, I tapped him out in the first thirty seconds. By the fourth tap out he was humbled. He's a narcissistic arrogant know it all, but shut up around me from there on. He went to gauge my eyes so I used that to get double unders and and inside reaped him, then arm barred him. It's a bad ambassador for the Senshido. He should have been more humble as a teacher.
Amazing!!!!Amazing!!!!Amazing!!!!Amazing!!!!
one of the better bo forms I have seen. Well done.
People commenting negatively on this really don't understand what they are seeing here. The movement presented is done by practitioners that obviously do their moves in their sleep. The attitude of the demos has to be casual to prevent them from killing each other. The older men are definitely higher level martial artists.
I've been teaching Kenpo for forty years and I was so embarrassed to watch this. I'm 73 and I move as fast and strong as someone in their early fifties, or younger. Watching those two dough boys struggle to perform Kenpo was shocking to see. To cover up the inadequacies, they would scream. All that screaming everyone did was not necessary. To yell at certain points, would have been enough. i met GrandMaster Parker years ago and i can not imagine him allowing something like this to take place. I love Kenpo and one should keep their bodies in shape to work Kenpo properly. Shame, shame.
That's correct, the belt only means that you've learned the knowledge, not that you have the skill to perform it. To have and maintain the skill, one has to practice their whole life time.
Sifu
I agree. Too much screaming. A kiyah is not a scream
its not a dream team, if it was there would be Frank Trejo and Planas!!!!
People who say they can't take it seriously just know that it is meant as self defense primarily in a streetfight where your opponent(s) probably don't know how to fight very well. Most sets won't be used fully or in order, you may take a couple moves from different things to fit what you need to do to stop someone from attacking you.
Hey! how do you get a guy to stand still like that in a real fight?
You punch him in the stomack
Those were just techniques, they're the basics put together in a practical arrangement, and they are usually practiced with a "motionless" attacker, but in American Kenpo we do multiple drills in which the attacker comes at us as if they were actually attacking us. When we have the techniques memorized from a still standpoint before you actually put it into action, it comes more naturally, and it's easier to learn.
How did you learn to speak and spell? You learned the alphabet over time to construct words and sentences to convey meaning or understanding. American Kenpo is the study of motion which Parker broke down to teach concepts.
Basics: punch stance etc were the alphabets of motion.
self defense/forms are concepts taught in a sequential arrangement like words in a sentence to give it meaning.
I thought this was a come back, but you taught him correctly. Nice job.
Thank you. Excellent demonstration. The elder black belts seem to be even more skilled.
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9:32 Ouch, Mr. Dye, your man took a straight right on the face from your fist, sir. Impressive as hell at how he shook it off and just kept going. /salute to you both
The higher grades condition their bodys to make closed bear hugs impossible. That's dedication.
p.s. : Read some other comments. It's no sin to get fat, and in schools with kickboxing sparring there are even good fighters.
It's just that the kenpo-curriculum is very academic and typical for SD arts that don't short spar their sets.
But it is nice to watch and fun to move this way. There is no sin in fun either.
Always wondered whether or not the 'chit chat' among the great Chinese, Okinawan, Korean and Japanese masters was chock full of the same kind of 'trash talk' that seem to pepper so many martial arts forums. That one comment of Ed Parker's regarding Bruce Lee also gives one pause. There is much of what one sees in archival footage of interviews with Lee which is punctuated with sneer and attitude. Reviewing the evolution of so many of these styles across the past 100 years, I have come to the conclusion that the concept of replacing ego and arrogance, with humility has not yet been achieved. In reading Shoshin Nagamine Sensei's book about his life in Matsubayashi Shorin-ryu, and some of the issues he encountered, I was left with that impression. His philosophy expressed in Chapter III is very detailed, thoughtful and profound. But I don't see it reflected in much of what I read amongst 'the faithful'. There is more octagon- than dojo-mindset in these arts.
laughed so hard that i cried
I dont understand why AK people say this is bad, i think this looks better than Ed Parker himself :D
It's very interesting to see how much more advanced they are compared to me, they can pull off short form 3 without a problem while I am still learning. Very nice.
That man at around 5:00 doesn´t even know that he would hurt himself badly in holding a bo like he does during a bo fight...
Esta técnica o escuela está en México ? Y si es así dónde ?
for those of you who are taking shit about this calling it a mcdojo or they are living in fantasy land let me remind you that Chuck liddell is a 5th degree black belt in American kenpo so if this is a mcdojo the you mc-dont know what your fucking talking about.
The bo staff was good.
Great moves & techniques but It’s still no contact how can u possibly get tough with out ever being hit ?
2:52
Why does the arm keep dropping to the side, in unison with the kick.
Shouldn’t that hand be up, and blocking?
Yes. He'll learn one day when he gets smoked while doing that lol
Mr. Dye's technique is so nice to watch.
Why the biger guys, beats the smaller ones... I dont get IT... Where is the Art in it? 🤔
Awesome an honor to G.M. Parker!
Its not even funny, a couple of the younger black belts are still flexibe to do high kicks, but the higher ranked black belts look like they'd be good in an ad for the American Heart Foundation, on obesity.
is it really necessary to screech all the time whne doingkarate? :/
Richtig gute Vorstellung! Ich liebe es
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Six months of boxing or wrestling and you would destroy every one of these clowns.
Then prove it. I do Kenpo and our school does mma/Kickboxing every week and ive smashed countless kids in my town who "box "
Those billboards, I mean uniforms, are subtle. When trying to make such a living from the arts the chances are high you end up looking like a clown.
what the fuck do all those movements mean?
i did karate for a few years learning kata thinking that this is a way to practice these moves in a manner that would simulate some real life experience. a lot of those moves seem silly and ineffective. im sure my comments will spark outrage but i have had enough of instructors telling me they can block any punch i throw because they can see my aura. i think a semi pro boxer would destroy any of these conmen
+ninjaman1138
Boxers can't kick.
It's ok to have your own opinion. These guys above have a 'similar' formula. I know the form they did in the beginning is called 'short 3.' It's a blue belt form. The first form to use strictly techniques.
Each form has a theme behind it. Each technique has extensions. It has different situations packed in as well. These techniques are no joke.
Sure, these guys are fat and many in this comment section find it funny or humorous, as do I.
Ed Parker on the other hand, was HUGE. Very humble and didn't strike people as a 'I can beat you up'. His intuitive ideas caught on and obviously was a body guard for Elvis Presley.
An amateur boxer would take these guys apart.
You're not wrong. It's American Kenpo 'karate'; the entire organization is like a cult. Don't take me wrong, there are most likely many Kenpo practitioners with the right mindset and have so become very good martial artists. But Ed Parker was, from my perspective, just a scam; and hence, the kata they perform have often very little practical meaning.
That said, i'm not dissing kata. I believe it's an excellent way to improve your entire martial arts game (through practising the basics), but if the kata is flawed it loses all value.
Outstanding!
Holy moly. I see the dream team lives in make believe land.
The Girls are the fittest and most skilled practitioners in this video. The rest are fat guys. One must have a waistline of at lest forty six inches to be promoted beyond fourth dan in Kenpo.
Great job! Keep up the training!
The higher your belt the bigger your stomach?
They know the art is bullshit how they were taught
When I was a boy, I found this stuff really impressive.
When I was a young man training in multiple systems, I found it distracting.
When I began teaching, I found it boring.
When I'd been in a good few scraps and was running my own school, I became sure of what I'd suspected for a while - it's bullshit.
+baldieman64
So.... your inability to fight is someone else's fault?
baldieman64 that just means you sucked at ai thats all. Works just fine for ne in my "SCRAPS". Who was your instructor? Just because you can't make something work for you doesnt mean that no one else in the world can't. Some people just suck at fighting no matter what they try and learn. 😂
clearly you just sucked at it...doesn't mean the fighting sucks. evidence has proven that martial arts are far more superior and effective than weapons...which is why the USA should erase NRA...teach security and police to fight...and only the military should be allowed to use firearms...and any person caught with firearms should receive immense punishment...like where they have to pay an amount of money so huge they will never want to do it again type of punishment...or you know...lock them up.
the whole "right to bear arms" custom in America is outdated and let's be honest...they made that law when we didn't have weapons that were as deadly as today...considering today's situation..it's time to reconsider that law. military have the right...but not anyone else.
@@IDyce88 u are so lost on y our for father's included 2a, some scum bag that dosent give a rip about "only cops should have bang sticks" u feel legit enuf to hand to hand fight him over the gun w ur family at stake? Or a tyranical government rolls in,what ya gonna do " hyea! Karate!"
@@roygresser5299 better that than a random person buying a gun and going ham on a school or mall...or blowing themselves up like those two dumbass teenagers. does anyone else remember the "i hate mondays woman"
I'm a Sifu 10th degree my variation (AKJ-American Kenpo of American Kenpo. It was fair, but I've seen them do better.
AWESOME!
One guy had good kicks.
Exelente sistema de defenza contra maniquies o companeros de entrenamiento.
Awesome 👍👍👍
This is what TMA has become...
Not more then silly moves and trolling yourself..
Im ashamed...
//Fellow TMA
American Kenpo isn't even technically traditional. It was developed by an American Street fighter who took bits and pieces from kajukenbo, judo, boxing, and karate. He also trained with bruce lee. Ed Parker is his name
Oh yeah .......atesaaaaaa
I also do kenpo and this is pure bullshit. No guard instance, no power in those kicks and punches, thats not kenpo. Kenpo strikes are meant to knock out, not to count points.
They look more like an aging bowling team, sorry...
Gman6755 That's because they only used the highest ranking folks there. The 2nd 3rd and 4th degree guys when it should have been the younger, more explosive practitioners. These guys aren't even trying.
Chris D Yeah, I agree with you. Old karate guys with big bellies do not impress much...
Ayah.....essah.....eyaiiii........ arghhhhhh...... ahhhhh..... aight.....
Applause.
Gman6755 show up and challenge one...ill pay for your plane ticket :)
Kris C lol..... cmon they're old fat fucks...... not athletes.🤤
whats this got to do with ed parker
because he refined and taught the art of Chinese Kenpo Karate
I thot ed parkers style was hawaiin
Rich Herkman Might have something to do with the fact that Mike Stone was from the islands.
You telling me he was kicked in the head and when kicked in the head he goes flying like that? 07:20
This is the gayist shit that I've seen in years. Thank you.
I get lost when the demo guy gets hit 30 times and stays unrealistically in the same spot frozen.... I do love kenpo though
I use to train in American Kenpo got to green belt then quit shortly after. It’s all BS a bunch of guys all slapping themselves for sound effects, everyone running around with a 10th degree black belt (Reserved for the original grandmaster) every schools syllabus is different some with 24 techniques some with 16 and some with 12. The most political art you’ll ever join. All static training as you stand still while the guy multiple strikes you and makes it look like he’s totally badass. They have long techniques that ina real fight you won’t have time to do. One school wanted me to take home a bunch of manuals to study. I was like I want to learn to fight not get a degree. I’d say join a good Asian art if you want stand up karate.
thats a good video of disgracing kenpo ....
its same like karate kenpo?
or what?
you said shaolin tample?
come on...
look shorinji kempo
that is a shaolin temple.
because if u want grade 8 black belt
u must budhist...
here i share u link
1. 「少林寺拳法」日体大公式映像 第51回体育研究発表実演会
2. 古い少林寺拳法の動き、かな「宇宙の平和」編-Shorinji Kempo1
3.Shorinji Kempo pressure point attacks
kicks at 5:44 are so slow...
And still don't see any power generation from the center or even hips in these strikes
Ed Parker Advanced hair tournament.
This is most likely BURGER KING KENPO PARKER !
Walter Herro all of your styles at shit because you ain't shit people comment on what the dont know but your popcorn schools haven't shown us shit
HAHAHA!
Y tu que practicas bro?
white Crain kinpo.karote .....x style
Is this a joke?
I love Kenpo. I've been studying for over 20 years, but they could have picked many better people for the dream team than this. I was not at all impressed.
Short Form 3
No need to train so many moves if you intend to end up kicking people in the groin
Cuantos danes tienen?? Porque tan gordos algunos?
KenBALLs
the water buffaloes fly swipes,
Joe Palanzo
It's an old video... non the less... very sad to watch!!!
Kind of sad really. When I was a kid I took Judo, then later Tae Kwon do, and boxing. I wasn't confident and still had a fear of fighting. Especially guys that were bigger than me. I ended up going to an Ed Parker Do jo - American Kenpo. Got up to a green belt, I was more confident but still had some fear issues. I took some time off, and returned to a different EP A/Kenpo Do jo in a different city. That is where I got my brown belt. I honestly have to say though. You can not incorporate the system into real live fight scenarios. The movements are based on the assumption that your opponent will react a certain way after each strike. In the real world it doesn't work like that. You have to take in to account weight, size, speed of your opponent. Also environment, and how many attackers and so on. What I found was I incorporated all of my different skills in Judo, TKD, Boxing, and Kenpo. I would spar and fight with a flow, as if not to think about my next move but to feel it. It is really hard to explain but when you let go and just let it happen you realize it isn't the art that makes the man, but the man that makes the art. I didn't get my black belt because in reality it was useless. I overcame my main objective - fear
sounds like you've earned your black belt to me.
Any one of the MANY Kenpo techniques will follow a specific pattern of various types of strikes and checks that are designed as a defense to a particular type of attack that is initiated by an opponent. It is a WELL KNOWN FACT within any ' reputable ' Kenpo school that an opponent MAY NOT react in a ' predictable ' manner to a strike that is delivered against them. *** Therefore, if the execution of ANY self defense technique is ' hindered ' by the opponent in such a manner as to make the Kenpo system of self defense INEFFECTIVE, the ' hindrance ' lies within the competence of the Kenpo practitioner rather than the attacker's ability TO hinder a SUCCESSFUL counter attack ! A proficient Kenpo practitioner has a whole ARSENAL of knowledge to draw from, and ANY interruption in the sequence of a particular technique would only lead to an IMMEDIATE adaptation of whatever is NEEDED to ' neutralize ' the opponent. This ABILITY to adapt is nothing more than the ability to PERCEIVE what is needed for a particular situation, and then ' accessing ' those tools that are relevant for the ' constantly evolving ' situation at hand ! Ed Parker ALWAYS conveyed this concept to his students. That is WHY you can hear Larry Tatum, Jeff Speakman, and other Kenpo instructors continually passing this concept on to anyone that THEY teach.
how is it possible to be a martial artist and overweight ?! Martial art is probably he best cardio that is..
Nice guts
that was pretty damn good
I know the staff set at the 5:00 minute mark; that man butchered the hell out of it.
🤣 they all sucked. The 1st degree BB who did kicking set💀
karate de salon.......
all of their punching is frikkin useless n performative, that shit is sooo in eficient and dangerous n a fight you would get hooked soo fast tryna do these hand dances .. HOWEVER, the kicking is ON POINT! If anybody learnt this martial art PLEASE forget anything from the belly up you ever learnt and KEEP anything from the belly down, take the kicking u learnt and move onto muay thai and add real fists and elbows then u will be complete
I can't believe how hated and disrespected this style is in the greater martial arts community, like its considered as useless as Systema which I'm sure is equally good depending on how you train it. All the people i speak to from different styles talk of how comical Kempo'ists are for hitting themselves more than their opponent and how "nobody is going to just stand there allowing you to hit them that many times" and how "over-done" everything is.. it's as if their styles don't do demonstrations or factor in how hitting a given location is going to cause a chain reaction in your opponents body opening up space for different techniques to be executed optimally, and its also suggesting their styles don't understand the concept known as 'marriage of gravity' or the principles of ricochet, they'll also make jokes at how fat and slow most Kempo practitioners are, that joke also applies to traditional Japanese Karate-ka in western countries.. and look, there's a degree of merit in that which we can't deny. Western countries are developed enough to be specialized so you don't have to be growing your food as well as earning money, you usually just sit at a desk and get some greasy sugar coated cardboard for dinner on your way home sitting in traffic, wash it all down with some carbonated sugar and then alcohol and tv to forget how pointless life (like this) is and do it all again the next day.. we're some of the most stupid but also the most privileged people in the whole world and are often too arrogant to notice let alone do anything constructive to remedy its short falls in order to live up to the infinite potential we're provided, instead we give our power to major corporations like Monsanto, McDonalds, Coke, Casinos, Cigarette manufacturers.. we're very happy to be making the super rich infinitely richer at the expense of our personal well beings whilst we toil like mice in a wheel of stress fighting or preparing to fight each-other for minimal gains or to protect what little we have. I tend to hope and aim for the insight and integrity that such training offers to help us be warriors more-so of the much needed change our society needs more than debilitating my fellow man, but there's certainly that too and its all intrinsic, you just need to expand the field of view.
Too bad none of this really works.
Carbs hold water if not used turn to fat
As someone who does street kenpo - this is sad and disgraceful to watch. This is what people think kenpo is.
first 2 minutes already see them totally messing up and skipping parts they did to steps no defense technique is 2 steps especially black belt level!!!!
mc dojo...
yea i take back my thing kempo sux nut
all american kenpo dojos are mcdojos. it's not a legitimate martial art.
lol wtf is this?
American Kenpo Karate developed by Edmund K. Parker
Thats all it is "dreams" Dream on if you think this will work in a real fight
What a rubbish, the opponents are all standing still until the great, great, grand, grand, grandmaster has finished with them. Such show fighting might have been impressive in the 70´s... The most famous thing Ed Parker was known for is Elvis Presley.
I like Kenpo because it is basic at times but effective like JKD.
The team of SHAME!