Name that Kempo!

Once again on Youtube, I found another demo:

It was put together by a couple of folks at The Martial Way, a kempo school in Vermont. The description was:

Two Kempo / Kenpo practitioner-instructors from the Martial Way Self Defense Center in Vermont demonstrate the crushing power and speed of Kempo Karate. Both are full-time Police Officers and instruct Kempo part-time. The Martial Way offers many different fighting disciplines in addition to a rock solid and long standing Kempo program.

What I found interesting about the demo was that I couldn’t immediately peg the style / lineage of the folks involved. It looked to me like one fellow had more of a Shaolin Kempo background, and one had more of a EPAK background. Each seemed to mostly stay within one of those genres, as opposed to an even mix.  They appear to call what they do ‘Chinese Kenpo’, but that could mean a whole bunch of things. I’m going to drop them a line to find out more. What do you see in the demo?

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