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I got a comment regarding the kempo timeline I have (read: should be updating) on the site, noting how little of significance has happened since 1974. Fred Villari went solo for the most part that year, stepping up into his ‘I created sho ton kwok, I’m the 10th dan’ phase. After that, in about 78-81 […]

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During my various rants about sparring, I sometimes imagine the effects of WTF style fighting if applied in the real world. I stumbled across a posting suggested by ethesis in the comments section of 24fightingchickens.com. It was a page simply entitled, “How to spar a Tae Kwon Do Black belt.” It reminded me of a […]

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Once again on Youtube, I found another demo:

It was put together by a couple of folks at The Martial Way, a kempo school in Vermont. The description was:
Two Kempo / Kenpo practitioner-instructors from the Martial Way Self Defense Center in Vermont demonstrate the crushing power and speed of Kempo Karate. Both are full-time Police Officers […]

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There’s a thread going on over at martialtalk addressing the point raised (in various places) that the combinations don’t necessarily need to be trained off of only a step through right hand front punch. Many of us already address the problem in a variety of ways, but the point was raised that perhaps there […]

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