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    Walk through the combinations 1-60

    October 18th, 2009 by matt · 11 Comments

    Steve Venturino has posted on his Kempoman.com site a walk through of the first 60 combinations on video. They might be a little different from yours, but check it out. Make sure that if you stop by you say ‘thanks’ for putting himself out there, and don’t mind the ‘guy in a parking lot’ quality, as it’s cool that he’s doing this at all.

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    • 1 Feral // Oct 27, 2009 at 5:18 pm

      It’s cool that he did this. It seems as though he has good credentials too. I hate to be a jerk, but how could anyone give this guy a blackbelt? He has no skill at all. Sure he’s memorized the movements of the techniques, but he has no proper technique. I know he’s doing it slowly, but come on. He could extend his blocks and strikes and use proper technique while going slowly. It’s not hard. My teacher is 62 and does not look like a fool when he does a scissor kick(combo 14). I’m not trying to bash this guy. I think filming the techniques is a great idea. He has way more experience than I do. In my opinion people with good credentials and terrible technique give Kenpo/Kempo a bad name. I mean he looked like a white belt learning how to kick and punch. I know I seem like a jerk. Sorry but I just had to say it.

    • 2 shaolinwarriormark // Oct 27, 2009 at 5:20 pm

      too each their own.Maybe he just practices once in a while, and that’s all.
      Alot of people leave kempo for other business activities.

    • 3 Feral // Oct 28, 2009 at 11:33 am

      Practicing once in a while is fine, but why make that person a blackbelt when they have no skill? I don’t think he’s left kempo either. I’m not questioning his credentials. I’m just baffled as to how someone with so much training can be so..unskilled. I watched all his videos, I’m not trying to bash him. Like I said earlier though, someone with his amount of training and creds should not look like a white belt. That goes for all martial artists. If I saw a guy with kempmans skill and he said he was a blackbelt, I’d laugh. Noway I’d say.

    • 4 shaolinwarriormark // Oct 29, 2009 at 9:42 am

      matt, any body have any of his dvd’s? like to see how he deals with :
      A. Punch in’s and DM’s/Kempos
      B. Free flowing Techniques/Sparring.

    • 5 matt // Oct 29, 2009 at 6:29 pm

      Before anyone gets too far with this, have you taken a moment to go to his site and read his bio?Perhaps it’s lack of skill, but I would probably guess that his cerebral palsy is the big factor in why his kicks don’t look like yours.

      He’s selling a book, but I don’t think he’s selling dvds. As far as I can tell, he’s just giving info away, and trying to sell a book to make a buck or two.

      If you too have cerebral palsy, feel free to show how it should be done.

    • 6 Feral // Oct 29, 2009 at 7:49 pm

      I apologize. I didn’t realize he has cerebral palsy.

    • 7 Feral // Oct 29, 2009 at 7:50 pm

      However, I fight cancer, and I have had major reconstructive surgery on my kidneys and bladder. So I’m no stranger to health problems.

    • 8 matt // Oct 29, 2009 at 8:13 pm

      Having worked with people with cerebral palsy, it’s amazing that he’s as mobile as he is. There are actually a lot of martial arts instructors with cerebral palsy, and many use wheelchairs.

      Feral, it wasn’t necessarily you I was targeting with the comment, but I just wanted to stop the train before it got out of control.

      Good luck with the fight.

    • 9 Feral // Oct 29, 2009 at 8:51 pm

      No offense taken, it was my fault for not getting that information myself. And thank you for the luck!

    • 10 Jesse // Nov 3, 2009 at 2:24 am

      I go back and forth depending on who I have been training with lately. What I mean is each of my instructors have different takes on how to properly do things. Some do there blocks real tight to the body and it works for them and their system. Others extend their blocks way beyond what I would consider normal good blocking techniques – but it works for them and has been for many decades. some have finese soft blocks, others choppy dead arm blocks. So I wonder what people would say to me when they see me working one thing one day and another positioning the next – I just hope the day they are watching is the day I do it their way so “It’s Right.”
      In Peace
      Jesse D.

    • 11 Feral // Dec 7, 2009 at 1:01 pm

      The only thing that is important is whether or not it works IMO.

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