"What goes through your typical Kenpoist's mind when they are attacked?"

 

The answer is that they recall things the way they learned them. Think about technique lines you've seen over the years, if you are a seasoned practitioner. Inevitably someone does the wrong attack and instantly a 4th degree black-belt looks silly then says, "attack with the other hand." For an onlooker or new person, this is weird and the root of our loss of credibility with the modern student. As instructors we all know the technique line is only a drill and all drills have expectations, but to people in their first years of training we look inept.

We must change the way we program our minds and the minds of students when we access our Kenpo knowledge. I have consulted with 2 Psychologists and this is akin to "talk therapy vs. behavior modification." Learning techniques by name, attack and out of context greatly slows the reaction time of the practitioner. Basically they access the reaction verbally & intellectually, then finally physically. Our challenge is to make the reaction nearly spontaneous and that can only be reasonably achieved by our recall being straight to the physical. Techniques must no longer be a list of things we memorize, but a set of related responses to related attacks.

 

Lower belts get exposed to focused groups of related techniques that address the most common types of attacks they might get exposed to. As students advance they are exposed to ever more challenging attacks. Instead of teaching a single technique from a wide variety of attack types we teach multiple techniques against a single type of attack. By the time a student gets their yellow belt they have a depth of punch and push defense knowledge that is normally only seen by upper belts.

Less variety, more depth, and I could care less if they know the name or attack associated with the technique. In very little time students are just reacting with techniques. No thinking or stumbling over memory. By the time they are pretty proficient with the moves they know the names, but only as supporting knowledge, not as the gateway to memory.

 

At the end we cover the Entire Kenpo System nothing will be left out. The methods in which we teach is a little different but yield fast and more natural resposes to adverse situations

Our method of teaching is all hands on. We focus on contact and actual physical stimulus to gain our skill. We will run techniques on the body at all times with empahsis on effecting our opponent. We also focus on the ability to read and respond to any given attack and frequently train with spontaneous attackers, not knowing what the attack will be and when.

Kenpo Forms Training

We offer the finest Kenpo Forms training available. Over 30 years in the art and 20 years of National,International and European competition experience brings the finest methods of training to become an International Kenpo forms Champion. ALL of our instructors have won both National and International titles and share their knowledge and experience to provide a solid training foundation to Kenpo Forms.

We teach the Kenpo Forms based on the "ORIGINAL" Kenpo forms taught by Senior Grand Master Ed Parker at his Pasadena school. We teach the original applications with no "improvements and modifications" added to the kenpo forms. Reviewed and approved by Many kenpo Seniors, Mr. Collado's Kenpo Forms are right on the money!

 

 

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