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That was a great video. I am grateful for your clear, to the point, and quality content. I would love to learn Kenpo from you. Do you have an online course? Do you do online lessons? Please let me know how I can contact you.

Too much freaking talking and not enough video of the fights.

Danke Mr.Dan - ke_np o! Seriously a good dealer of clear wisdom! Dan - means Great refinded Chi in some Asian Kempo / quan Fa.! The Kenpo Matrix is a totaly awesome connection to the ' holy-geometric' of the human possibility ! 😊

Jeff Speakman began with Gōjū-ryū karate and earned a black belt before going over to Kenpo. Mas Oyama began learning martial arts when he was 9 from a farmer who taught him Chinese martial arts. The farmer gave him a seed to plant; when it sprouted, he was to jump over it one hundred times every day. As the seed grew and became a plant, Oyama was able to jump between walls back and forth easily. At age 15, he went to Japan with his older brother who joined the Army. In college, Oyama studied karate with the son of Shotokan founder Gichin Funakoshi. Later on, he learned Goju from a student of Chojun Miyagi. During this time he also went around Tokyo getting in fights with the U.S. Military Police. What fascinated me about Oyama was his fighting against bulls and knocking them unconscious with his bare hands! He wrote about it in his book, "This is Karate." He battled 52 bulls over his lifetime, cutting off the horns of several and killing three instantly with one strike. His books have photos of him and the bull. The Okinawan karate masters studied in China. I think it was Funakoshi who wanted karate to be adapted for teaching physical education in the Japanese public schools and he downplayed the Chinese origins. The Koreans who adopted Shotokan (and the katas) similarly downplayed the Japanese influence by saying Taekwondo was indigenous. Apparently, the Koreans added some extra kicks. Lee Won Kuk was a direct student of Funakoshi; he founded Chung Do Kwan. He creating his own style known as Tang Soo Do Chung Do Kwan style, which became Taekwondo as of 1955. Choi Hong-hi was a second-generation black belt under Lee Won Kuk (through Duk Sung Son).

This video is very good and it shows how the Marines martial arts training differs from the Army. I hope there will be a video in the future about the martial arts training that the Special Forces receive and also how the U.S. programs differ from the Asian and European military forces.

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Sensei Dan did an excellent job of researching Kenpo and making the video which helps to preserve martial arts history in the U.S. Bill Ryusaki was another Kenpo teacher in California who trained Benny Urquidez and Cecil Peoples. Ryusaki had learned Kenpo from Marino Tiwanak, a Hawaiian boxer and student of Adriano Emperado. Emperado taught a lot of students such as Tiwanak, John Leoning, "Sonny" Gascon, and many others. Gascon left Hawaii to join the Air Force and later went to California. Leoning also came to California and opened a school with Gascon as an instructor. Some black belt instructors from Hawaii came to their school and told them they could not use the name Kajukenbo or the patch since they were not paying a required percentage to the home school in Hawaii. Sonny was told that he needed to pay the money right then. Sonny invited the Black Belts in for a "work out," an invitation which they refused. However, Emperado had approved the splitting of Kajukenbo into "sections," one of which was developed by Sid Asuncion, who taught Al Dacascos. Branching off into "sections" in my opinion was similar to Bruce Lee's adage: “Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own."

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This movie is now available on bluray. You guys should pick it up. Its looks fantastic! There are two versions. Get the special edition with the 4k transfer and special features.

I’ve been doing ZZ for almost 5 years. Not only has it improved and heal my Plantars Fasia but improved my kickboxing, tkd, and bjj. Wierd

Great video sir!

yes it is, as a licensed boxer--yes

take a boxer against a non-boxer with no skill. the fight will be over. there is a license. you do get a boxing license

there is nothing entertainment about folks losing their lives or being disabled from boxing

Elvis wore a red belt as a 8th Dan senior master

ShorinRyu practitioner 🥋 Walter san, Renshi Rokudan Domo arigato

you all gotta hear about Yasuhiko Oyama stories he spells truth and true history as he was there and he most definitely recieved the worst from Kyokushin he has a youtube channel so i recommend taking a look at it as Oyama Dojo was way more brutal than explained here its same but Yasuhiko explains it in more detail although your research is not bad

They have a feature where you can let them out to accommodate the beer gut.

It would be nice to see other styles of karate to view kata applications, in a similar view. There maybe more development in that field.

I trained with Craig NG the thin Chinese guy with the long ponytail in the beginning of this movie in the early nineties after recognizing him at the Marina Athletic Club after watching this movie, so cool

I am currently a 2nd degree black belt in Taekwondo. I have to be a 5th degree to become a master. If my instructor let me skip ranks, even if it was only by one, I would leave.

All depends on instructors if they make it a haze fest its gonna be stupid as shit. But some motivated and training oriented instructors can make it a awesome and productive experience.

I subscribed to your website, to avoid intentionally shady practices found in Fairbanks, Alaska.

I would like to clarify something. Are you talking about American Kemple or US SD Kenpo . USSD is the only franchise Keo organization that I know about because I am an American Kemple practitioner in the style that we practice is very effective but the USD one is a joke so I just wanted to see which one you were referring to because after looking at your video, it appears that it’s the USD one I just wanna make sure that that is correct Because I personally know Mr. Speakman and trained with him and his stuff is awesome

Currently training in BJJ with Brazuca TMC. And on the chin hunters boxing team. Very professional and down to earth professors and Senseis. One thing I've noticed definitely is, if they dont compete. I mean thats not always the case at all. Some places just don't. But see what or where they would go, and what higher authority would they be under if they would compete. One of the larger authoritys. Ibjjf, adcc and others. But just experiment, look around, read all the reviews and take a grain of salt with ya.

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But I end up passing it after I retested

I fail my second degree blackbelt test before

Boy do I disagree with you. I went from a green belt to a 4th gup blue belt ( skipped the 5gup) and I won a trophy at the same promotion exam for extra performance in that promotion exam. I actually had been training MORE as I progressed ( about every day). I was 16 and this was mostly a dojo of adults. During the exam, my sabonim had me do a multi phase breaking technique, that was way beyond the skills of a 5th gup. My forms were perfect. Sparred beautifully. This was in the mid 60s. My instructor was proud of me. 6 mos later I became a 3rd gup brown. Later, my instructor left that particular dojo. A new instructor promoted me 3 mos later to 2nd gup. When I re connected with my original sabonim , he made me go back to the last level HE had promoted me to which was 3rd gup. In essence the same instructor who skipped me a rank earlier, BASED ON MERIT, demoted me later, because he had not awarded the rank himself. This was not a kids class in a McDojo school in a suburban strip mall. What’s the problem with that? .

People have unrealistic views it's a very common theme in the world of martial arts unfortunately

Students who excel can be skipped. It is not something that I do often but on occasion. If a student does not meet the time, class attendance requirement and skill level they can not test. It doesn't matter how good they are. If the student has meet all requirements and on the day of the test show extra-ordinary skill, maturity and spirit they can possibly skip. But that is not a choice of the student. It is a decision on the examiner. Ranks can only be skipped at the kyu level. Now the student that skips is required to learn the material for both the rank that they skipped and the rank that they were skipped to. Skipping a rank is not a great thing because the student will be required to learn two katas and the material for both ranks. The student will not be tested for the rank that they skipped but they will have to know it.

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Hey Thank you for another great video! For your interview section, can you please do interviews with Benny Urquidez, Gokor Chivichiyan, and Gary Moskowitz? Each of them are huge pioneers in their own right. Each would be an amazing interview! Thanks.

I'm fail a belt test in kyokushin this time . But I see it as learning . It sucks but maybe try again in the end of the year!

My teacher was very old school he learned in Okinawa when he was in the military.

Word crossed martial arts it is shotokan ,Burmese boxing and jujitsu.

Sifu/Sensei Meck. Weren't you talking about something like this in a video about two or three years ago?

I like Kung fu,but Kempo also looks good! And It is nice to learn how to defend yourself, which ever way works for you!😎

There was this kid who started training a few months after my brother and I (after 30+ years ago). We were purple belts (fourth belt) and our instructor allowed him to skip twice. Which even as kids and beginners didn't quite sit well with us. Years later we're second gup (kyu) red belts and we tested for our first gup and passed. The time frame from 1st gup to 1st Dan was 9 months. For whatever reason he was allowed to test after only 6 months, while I (and everyone else afterwards) had to wait the full 9 months. No reason was ever given why. He was okay, average at best, definitely not some prodigy. I was 18 and about 5 years older than him and knew the material better. Technically, I was his sempai by at least 6 or 7 months, but if you look at our certificates, you'd think it was the other way around because his Dan number is above mine. One of the senior black belts joked that he was a "golden child". Basically, a student who was a favorite of our instructor. Even after all these years, that never really sat well with me. Why set minimum time requirements and yet not hold everyone to the same standards? Funny thing is, he quit after getting his black belt, while over three decades later I'm still at it. He also no longer has contact with our former instructor, but I still do. And no, I've never brought it up to my former instructor, it was decades ago. Plus, his school, his rules.

Ninjia training 23 years of there training for one event 7 days a week was shocked to see this as well it's illegal to be taught in the states

Bujikon ninjitsu the student of the great one hautsumonto dojo Japan know as little dragon my teaching an this is very different for bujikon ninjitsu

There was nothing more irritating in my short trial of bjj than hearing white belts say osu! Interestingly, a friend of mine who trains in Okinawa karate says that their general attitude towards that word is: “get out of here with that macho bullshit word.”

Kudo karate does all techniques: punching , kicking, grappling and throwing, ground fighting

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When I was 28, the instructor at the school I grew up in moved away. He left what was left of his school to me. I had been taking Kung Fu from him since I was 14. Because I don't personally care about rank and because money was tight, I had never pursued any further degree advancement past my first degree black belt test when I was 18. Then when I was thirty, I ended up with a sizable monthly income to try turning the school into a full time income as a result of a settlement when my day job closed down. So I decided to spend the money to make the 1,000 mile trip to the Grand Master that supervised all testing that I had been sending tapes to and take my second degree test. It turned out that there were two forms I had never learned that were part of the second degree curriculum. But I was in my element sparring when I spared with the third degree black belts. It really put the Grand Master in a pickle. He was very traditional and very deeply against writing or videoing anything. But money was tight for me and I had made it clear that this trip was probably the only trip I would be able to make. He did ultimately come to a conclusion, but I've made it my personal policy not to say what the conclusion was because no matter what, there are some people who will disagree with it. I had picked up other things along the way, and I knew other forms from other teachers and there wasn't anything particularly special about the forms I didn't know and they obviously didn't include any skills that I needed to be a proficient fighter. Some people say I should have passed. On the other side, I very clearly, measurably, and absolutely did not meet the requirements of the rank. Some people say I should not have passed. I don't personally care about the rank, I know what the decision reflected, I recognize the difficulty in grading me, and I appreciate having that opportunity to see where my skills lay in the overall sequence.

One thing that may be an issue is the perception that rank is something earned like money - that you can keep it as long as want it. The rank is earned, but it's a snapshot into the skills represented at that time. A black belt who hasn't been practicing for 20 years isn't representative of those who practice currently. I can relate as I was a tkd practitioner for years... in the 80's! Did a couple years in early 2000's (tkd and judo). This week I started at a shotokan school and though I knew, in my memory, a lot of what was being taught in class... my old body wasn't there. I have no issue starting as a white belt again. My body has to be trained again. It'll be a fun journey. I don't train to impress- I train for me. For health and for fun. I don't represent black belt skill today... but I'll get there.

If someone has high level training in other arts (I’m thinking those involved in MMA) and continue to spar and train in person I see no reason why they can’t become advanced in a new style depending on specifics from this platform

Master Wood spoke of Ju Jitsu schools widespread in Europe, but rather than Hokuto ryu, which is not very widespread, we should mention the Nihon Taijitsu or the Nihon Ju Jutsu. Exceptional modern schools, very closely linked to tradition (Gendai Budo).

I study more traditiional okinawan Uechi-ryu karate so there are usually only 3-4 belt ranks if the school uses them at all and the advancement is measured more by the progression of the student and the discression of the instructor (There isn't always a standard curriculum and it varies from one school to the other although the applications, fighting techniques, and training methods are taught consistantly). The belt ranking system only really started being common when shotokan was introduced to mainland japan, taken from judo. The idea of progressing a student without them being ready is like placing a 10yr old in a highschool math class. If the student can't understand the stuff in between, they won't be able to do any of the work and it serves no one, not the school, not the student, because it makes it so they are just there twiddling their thumbs while the people around them acctually can train with the other students with the skillset that prevents them from being seriously injured in the process. Because uechi-ryu involves a lot of heavy body conditioning over a long period of training, the white belts trying to train in the black belt classes would most likely get them injured. Although the advanced students also understand how to train safely with all ranking students (They wouldn't be able to teach the beginners if they couldn't) but that is unfair to the advanced students when they are training. I remember when I was first starting my training and I was sparing with one of the blackbelts (they were helping with the teaching) and even though they were showing the utmost control, just getting hit or kicked lightly was like getting hit with a brick or a baseball bat. There are levels of training for all students, you start at the bottom and you move your way to the top, if you try to go too quickly, you fall over and hurt yourself in the process.