Kempo Jutsu, as created by Professor Kimo Ferreira, introduced the form Shirukuma from Motobu-ryu as a tribute to Motobu Chosei, Sensei. The structure is similar to many fundamental karate forms, but the Hikite returns closer to the centerline / solar plexus rather than to the hip in similar forms.
This is a somewhat older video that I’ve recently uploaded to Youtube, but the front and side views hopefully make the movement clear.
I got my start in a Fred Villari’s Studios of Self Defense. Most folks who come to this website got there start in a dojo that is or was connected to him in some way. Although I didn’t always agree with him, his impact on the Kempo community is undeniable, and his passing affects his family, friends and legions of students. He had the foresight to establish a leadership team for his schools, and his name will live on in them. Our condolences go out to those affected by this loss.
In a good way.
I was lucky enough to have Marlon Wilson get me in touch with GM Tim Wakefield up in Canada. He was kind enough to send me his write-ups of the combinations, and with those we’ve narrowed it to FIVE combinations not appearing in the archive. We now have text descriptions of combinations 1-91, 93-103, and 108. We only need Combination 92, and combinations 104-107. There are some in his collection that differ from some of the ones we have and I will be including the alternates as well. I paraphrased the ones as his format was different from the rest of the archive. I am a little regretful of this as his descriptions were way funnier than my efforts. Any errors introduced in the paraphrasing are clearly mine.
Obviously we’re going to keep going, but we don’t have far to go to complete the collection. Then we can work on completing the video examples.
