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well, I dont know why people insist that traditional martial arts dont work- i find that if a traditional martial art doesnt work for you at a given time, you probably did not train for it or werent taught as you should have been.

i dont recommend that one to the head

The chinese do the same thing. If you train a longfist style or various southern styles, you will learn different types of kiai. there is ha, hey, ho, ooh, oy and a few others (these are spelled phonetically, to illustrate the sound beoung made). Supposedly, each tone corresponds to a different area of the body and creates a different force / has a different purpose. That said, the jury is out on qi. WW gave a good explanation. Others will tell you that qi is really nothing more than proper body mechanics. I think that these days we tend to over-romanticize it and make it out to be something that it is not. very interesting

actually i saw Hapkido people using them for knife defense as well, seems that , as well as TKD, they figure if the knife is not too close to the body it would be easy to kick off the hand of the attacker. I, for one, wouldnt try to get as close to my attacker with that particular kick- if you miss, you are wide open to attack.

Seems to me, what you saw were some of the original alphabet techniques, wchi use a lot of hammer fist and much harsher techniques. In Puerto Rico, in my school in particular, we focus on the general techniques: grab arts, counters, tricks, etc. and leave the alphabet for more serious occasions since the way those should be done with care not to hurt someone. Dragon's Den- a school from California came to Puerto Rico- their sifu Jeff Macalolooy was really impressive. His students appeared to be a bit shy or they havent really gotten the hang of practising stuff hard, still they know more about escrima than we do. Also, they appear to know more about groundfight while we dominate the stand-up . It was really interesting to see the areas we were lacking and now we're tryign to fix those areas. I'd like to see how your school uses its techniques

forget about it being slow... have u ever hit that kick against something solid? it can mess up your knee bad...

yet, when practiced in Japan, they refered to controlled chi as "Hado" which are vibrations we produce I'm not sure to what extent Hado really works, however, there are a number of books that explain certain experiments that verify that Hado exists, but not in a large scale as cartoons would like it to appear or legend makes it out to be more research is needed

Cerio trained under a man by the name of George Pesare who trained in Karazenpo Go Shinjutsu under Sonny Gascon. Karazenpo was Kajukenbo, only Gascon and his brother-in-law Walter Godin couldn't use the Kajukenbo name due to politics. Cerio then left to train under Chow who was then teaching his own variant of Kempo which differed from Mitose's original Kempo Jujutsu. Cerio's system combining the knowledge of Chow's Kempo and Gascon's Kajukenbo led to the offshoots of both Villari's schools and my Master's. Keep in mind that Chow continued to strictly teach his form of Kempo while the BBS focused on refining the Kajukenbo system. Just because Kajukenbo has Kempo in it doesn't make it Kempo. Cerio went to learn from the "original" teacher to further himself. While I'm ranting, on a personal note, despite all this I can honestly say that none of it means anything. I've grown to not care about lineage or anything such as that because quite honestly it's meaningless. Shaolin Kempo....Kajukenbo....Kara-Ho Kempo...Kenpo. What you learn in these systems is meaningless compared to what your instructor has to teach you as an individual. The only real differences between the systems themselves is just erroneous movements, and nitpicking various stances in kata's and drills. But in the end they all have the same intended purpose. i know, I know, I'm nitpicking... Adriano Emperado was taught by Chow and it is the base style of Kajukenbo. and Karazenpo is a variation of kajukenbo, but I'm not really sure as to why. So your style must be pretty similar to mine then.... nice to know that

if you are completely outfought(strikes) shouldnt you pay mind to your training? you are obviously doing somehting wrong when you train - u should at least be able to trade punches... but anyways, in UFC the fights favor grapplers, in real life, the one who can come up with the best fight, be it stand up or on the ground, will win.

i have friends who've influenced me on kicking the way sport tae kown do kick. I dont kick that way, and I dont see any other kajukenbo kick that way. just because something CAN work doesnt mean you incorporate it right away into your martial art; you are free however, to add it to your fighting style(you fight however you want to fight).

I'm not saying it cant be done, I'm saying traditionalist in WC wont throw hooks because they know the disadvantages to it and love the advantages of short powerful chinese punches. your sigung wants to throw a hook, let him try it, and if it works, he'll teach you how to do it too.

hapkido, sees this opening to throw you to the ground. (other korean arts are so swift, throwing an open punch to the face leaves an opening for a kick to the ribs) judo- you better be really fast at taking your arm back after a hook or they will use it as leverage to take you down. kenpo- will hurt the arm if the punch is slow enough, after being hit in certain areas, the arm wont be of much use in the fight. this is all debatable to situations though

you are going to have to explain that one to me - a mix of kajukenbo and chows chinese kenpo. chow's kara-ho kenpo is already part of Kajukenbo(the kenpo part). is it a modified kajukenbo system?

-- in my style we throw hooks too, but I have learned they are not too reliable against certain styles, one of them being wing chun-- better to go with something more reliable

the weakest punch you can throw at them - I meant wing chun practitioners. Understand that their style is designed to not waste space nor time in a fight, so if you throw one of these punches at them(hooks) you wont just miss or be redirected, you will be trapped in a current of deflecting and striking blows which are triggered by your movement. Once this happens, you have risked being hit more than 3 times in order to try to land one punch

that kenpo style comes from American Kenpo,right?

secrets- could be because it is not something you can learn quickly, but takes a long time, or, in a more frequent case scenario, its not something most people can describe. of course, there are movements or techniques be it for meditation, fighting or prowess that are kept between school members and should not be shared with everyone.

I have used it but kind of by accident - a friend of mine wanted to see if I could defend myself and started throwing punches at me( playing) and I adopted this tai chi position- when he came close and almost hit me in the face I punched him on the chest- drove him back and barely did I feel like I was doing anything

though hooks might work for a boxer, wing chun practitioners see this as an opening and will parry the punch followed by a strike - hard to counter this counterattack

wow, I'm impressed with your school curriculum. It doesnt look like a watered-down martial art so probably you feel like you are behind because you are training with good fighters, so dont feel bad at all. If you want a good tip on stopping the guys from holding back is to hit them as hard as you can- no holding back and somewhere where it hurts. - at least thats what a friend of mine does- she tends to be slower than we are but she hits every bit as hard.

if they are good wing chun practitioners, they wont throw hooks because its the weakest kind of punch you can throw at them(fastest way for them to get to you and win the fight). Besides, in their practice they recommend strong short punches in front of the body- never from the side.

well, I think that he meant it had a lot of stuff that wasnt taught traditionally, I guess. Depending on what I saw would I say if its effective or not, but with Wing Chun it is a safe bet to say; tradition works well.

Actually, it is not difficult at all. You train your body right and keep relaxed and an alert mind and chi will flow in and from you. Of course, dont expect it to be like electricity. When you have trained as you should and reached the level you need, you will feel it in every breath you take.

Yes, but isn't that fighting dirty? I'm not saying training grppling is bad, just that I think staying on your feet is better in a nasty situation where you could face multiple aggressors. A standing submission tho, in which you retain more mobility, is probaly a better option. but thas imo, which doesn't really matter I agree with SenseiMike

Nobody should ever have to change relegions, but some people's strict faith may limit the scope of abilities. Not meditating is fine for physical chi, but meditation is needed for the higher levels. Even though you need meditation for the higer levels that doesnt mean you have to change your religion over it; you only adapt your mind to concentrating and develop for a specific purpose. If you dont open your mind to accept growth, you fail to learn anything in this life.