Het JWT
Originally posted by JWTAYLOR
DK, describing American Kenpo Karate is always really hard for me because of the word "Karate" in there. Even Ed Parker said that only 10% of the modern system he taught was the material he originally learned. He kept "karate" becuase people kind of understood what "karate" was, but they had no idea what kenpo meant.
Some schools then called it American Kenpo Chuan Fa. Which is kind of redundant. But those schools wanted to point out that it was not karate, so they associated it with kung fu.
Unfortuanltey, it's not karate, or kung fu, it's just American Kenpo, as sytem in and of itself.
I went to a Huk Planas knife seminar just last Friday. Mr. Planas is known in American Kenpo circles as "The Encyclopedia" in referrence to the amount of techniques and forms he's learned. So you got someone who likely knew allot if you had one of his students.
JWT
Did you go to the planas seminar here in S.A?
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