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We had a great time at Dragon-Phoenix Martial Arts. Several hours of good ideas and sharing with friends. Click on the pictures to see a larger image.

Through strange luck, a thread was revived over at MartialTalk that was started by Ron Chapél a couple of years ago. It started with a paper by one Peter Hobarts, Esq., who is a lawyer and martial arts instructor. He wrote an article for Black Belt magazine regarding the legal ‘duty to retreat’ as well. Basically, duty to retreat is your obligation to attempt to avoid a situation where you might have to use force in order to claim ’self-defense’. 

When teaching kempo techniques, many times we pass on techniques that include eye pokes, hitting downed opponents, or other similar ‘finishes’. How do you inform your students of the serious ramifications of these techniques? Are you concerned about liability if one of your students uses a technique that you taught them?

Jim Brassard of Shaolin American Kempo had put up some youtube videos, and just dropped me a line to let me know he updated the Combination #8 Explanation Video. There’s even a little Bruce Lee clip at the end. Here it is:

I know a lot of folks roll their eyes at combination #13, but after attending a Lubid seminar regarding Filipino Rope techniques, I had a new perspective on it, and found lots of useful tricks. 

Here’s a video of Fred Villari from 1985 (assisted by a young looking Jim Bryant) demonstrating some ideas related to combination #13.