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The Social Gelo podcast does some long form discussions about Kajukenbo, but this one is particularly relevant to Kempo history as it includes Walter Godin, Sonny Gascon and the early days in California.

Often when I’m teaching techniques, I’ll suggest them as problem solving devices. There usually is a ‘to-do’ list starting with not getting hit. Often technique training is done with a single step-through front punch, which is an unrealistic scenario. I happily stumbled across a video by my friend Marlon Wilson that addresses a problem I was teaching this week – stopping the second punch.

Kimo Ferreira was a force of nature, and a fountain of historical knowledge. It’s been a couple of years, but the void remains. I’ll continue to dig into the history, and to develop the art I was given. I’m still plugging away, hopefully making progress.