Kenpo technique similarity (we'll see if anybody cares)

[parkerlineage]

Not that anybody other than like 3 people out there care, but yesterday, I was struck by the realization that Detour from Doom is Five Swords!

Five Swords - Block, strike (chop), palm, punch, step up the circle (chop insert,) downward chop. (Very vague, I know, but if you know what I'm talking about, I don't need to explain it).

Detour from Doom - Block/(punch), strike (kick), push (which is a palm), punch, step up the circle (chop insert), downward hammerfirst, which could be easily turned into a chop.

Just to get a little Kenponess back into this forum.

[Jiffy]

I'm guessing your talking about a movement in Doom the game?

Sorry, I'm not very good with 1st person shooter games.

[bushido_man96]

Ahh, need a little more clarification here to make a response, please. Are those names of small forms or something like that?

[Killer Miller]

Jiffy, I love FPS. Everyone has an area where they just never grow up!

- Killer -

[cathal]

A friend of mine did Kenpo for a while and he showed me a few things. But as I recall his escape was different than the one you described.

[parkerlineage]

I'm guessing your talking about a movement in Doom the game?

hahahaha...

I'm not sure if you're joking or not, but no, it's not from some game.

Ahh, need a little more clarification here to make a response, please. Are those names of small forms or something like that?

I suppose that would be an adequate description of them, yes. A bit like bunkai, from what I've heard...most of Kenpo is about learning pre-arranged counters for prescribed attacks, and then eventually learning to combine them, delve deeper into them (like I'm doing here), and so forth.

Sorry for the confusion - this is really an AK specific statement, and I was mostly just trying to see if there was still anybody out there doing AK.

So far, looks like, no.

A friend of mine did Kenpo for a while and he showed me a few things. But as I recall his escape was different than the one you described.

Escape? Care to describe a bit more?

[cathal]

Escape? Care to describe a bit more?

Ha ha, sorry didn't mean "escape" I meant to say detour. Instead of push they did a roundhouse punch.

[parkerlineage]

Interesting...to where do they strike with that? I always understood that the "detour" was the sliding up to a cat stance in the first move, anyway, but I'm still interested.

[cathal]

Well as I recall (and take that with a grain of salt because it's been a long time) that right before they step up the circle, the roundhouse and punch are taught as separate techniques but tend to look like a neon-zuki or mountain punch if done very fast. It's been equally long since I've seen it as well. : /

[parkerlineage]

Hm...I'll try that, and see how I like it.