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Many MSDC folks (along with any shotokan folk) will remember Heian Nidan. Shorin Ryu or Wado Ryu folks probably know it as Pinan Shodan. Shaolin Kempo 4 kata is based loosely on it, so I thought that this video would be very relevant. Here’s a flow drill that encapsulates the beginning and middle of the form to extract the lesson. The presenter feels that it is all about limb control to gain access to good targets. What do you think?
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The Bob Fritz notebook pages of kempos have finally run dry after only almost 90 of them. Here’s the last set, numbers 61-69. Don’t despair, though, because now that means we can move on to animals. Check back in a few days as we begin to get those into the archive.

David Kreuger, a writer at 24fightingchickens.com (no, really, it’s a serious shotokan site) has done a little research regarding punching. A physics journal published a paper, and David sums it up for us. What’s the scoop? I’ll just point you at his post and you can see for yourself. For those who want to see the original article, sorry but you’ll have to subscribe to the American Journal of Physics, however, another article on the same topic that cites the original can be found here.