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Although not a ‘Shaolin Kempo’ form, many folks are adding elements from the Nick Cerio’s Kenpo material, and some might do his Bo forms. Here’s a nice example of Cerio No Kon Dai performed by Shihan Régis Poirier.

The Tracy Kenpo lineage had a splinter Tracy/Connors group, and I was lucky enough to meet a practitioner of this particular flavor of Kenpo years ago at a ‘Gathering of Eagles’ in Las Vegas. I’ve always felt that the Tracy and Parker flavors of Kenpo had their pluses, but somehow the intense taxonomy of techniques left a sterile flavor in my mouth. It reminds me of my work in a behavioral program where traditional learning generalization was expected through learning enough examples was replaced with a more loose process where the learning was varied so you wouldn’t be stumped by a small change in the situation. This video, although well produced, gives a good example of my concerns with the methodology.

I am beginning to share the forms that I have been doing lately. They are the core of Kempo Jutsu, the art of my mentor and long time instructor Professor Kimo Ferreira. This series bears the Pinion name, but on the mainland they are often referred to as “Kempojutsu Kata 3” because some of the schools who began to learn them already had a Pinion / Pinan series that was different and somewhat based on the Heians. These more directly correspond to the 1-5 Kata series in their style, but are in many cases derived from the Palamas sets.