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As has been mentioned in the forum, CCMAA is hosting Professor Kimo Ferreira for a seminar. The topic is weapon defense, from a Kempo Jutsu perspective. If that wasn’t good enough, our good friend Jesse Dwire IV (who you might know as RevIV) will be there as well presenting Kempo animal techniques.  Go to the Cape Cod Martial Arts Academy Website for details. Paperwork should be up within 48 hours. Many folks you know from the comments and the forum will likely be there, so please come on down. I’ll definitely be there (and will certainly be taking a turn as Uke…) so you will at least get to see me take a pounding. Hope to see you there.

One of the forms that I have learned a great deal from is Sho Tung Kwa.  It is the form the GM Villari claims contains all the ‘secrets’ of his take on kempo.  During my research I came across one of the alleged meanings of this form:  hands and feet in harmony.  This lead me to a particular practice in the way I do kempo.  I actively feel to get close enough to take out the legs without much change in technique.  Of course, to attempt to think about this in the middle of a fight (breath) would simply slow me down and end up being awkward to explain to the students when (if) I woke up in hospital.  So, we add it to the practice of all our kempo, from simple buckles to all out sweeps, we practice every technique with an awareness of these poosiblities.  The intention is that they will just ‘be there’ should we ever need them.  So, now for the next two months we, in my dojo / kuen will focus on this and it is my intention to teach this as a permanent concept in all our techniques from now on…if it is there.