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It’s been over 20 years for the site. It’s been 20 years of the technique archive. We’ve reached a plateau – over the last few years only a few new combination videos have come in. We’ve taken matters into our own hands. My friend Chris Hatch and I have spent the last many months reverse engineering the higher level combinations from the written descriptions that we have. We’re going to record them and upload them as we feel they are ready to populate the archive. Stay tuned for some new content! By the way, if you want to critique them, feel free to send in a video on how to do it the right way.

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.