Comments on: Walk through the combinations 1-60

By: pete hamilton

pete hamilton — Fri, 18 May 2012 11:33:48 +0000

I did buy his kempo book. He has a lot of insight and gave me different perspectives on various techniques. I admit initially to having similar opinions of Master Venturino. However, if we stop and think of all the frauds on Internet media, perhaps he is performing the forms/combos well enough for an experienced MA to see it, but masking the forms/combos to protect the art from knuckle heads. Perhaps a reach, but maybe he doesn’t have the ego so many of us seek to satisfy. Suppose he does have a disability, who serves who? Does the art serve the practitioner, or does the practitioner serve the art? Look up what Bruce Lee said about that and adapting, and why he developed JKD. I think we need to stop holding the arts as ‘sacred’, and start helping each other. Maybe then we can find what we really seek.

By: Feral

Feral — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:01:15 +0000

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

By: Jesse

Jesse — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:24:41 +0000

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.

By: Feral

Feral — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:51:37 +0000

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

By: matt

matt — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:13:17 +0000

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.

By: Feral

Feral — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:50:32 +0000

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

By: Feral

Feral — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:49:13 +0000

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

By: matt

matt — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:29:20 +0000

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.

By: shaolinwarriormark

shaolinwarriormark — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:42:57 +0000

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.

By: Feral

Feral — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:33:18 +0000

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.