I was looking at the kempoinfo.com site dashboard and noticed that a couple of the links people were clicking on were to my old video host. The archive dates back a long time, so YouTube wasn’t the obvious choice at the time. When the other provider discontinued hosting video, I migrated the content over to YouTube. With over 150 pages of content and around 500 posts, I clearly missed a few. I have fixed a couple (combinations 63 and 11) and will have to replace a few as I don’t seem to have them. Some of the links in the posts have gone dead, but those generally link to other people’s content, so they may have taken it down. That being said – if you click on a dead link in the archive, please let me know and I’ll try to fix it.
Combination 71
This was one of the first ones that Chris and I tried to reverse engineer, and we tinkered with it until we felt we understood the flow of it. I’m pleased to see the introduction of head movement – I feel it is underutilized in many karate and kempo styles. We’ll do a deep dive on that later, but it’s a welcome detail.
The combination is fairly one sided, but I encountered that in some other older techniques from other arts. The flow is interesting, and it has a classic ‘Villari-esque’ finish.
Combination 90
We’re really connecting the dots on the 80-90 page. This one posed some trouble for us as the description used the term ‘floating knee’ and ‘reverse back crane’s wing’, which didn’t show up anywhere else. We used context clues to reverse engineer the technique, but if you have this one firsthand, we’d be happy to see a video of your version.
