IWishToLearn
3rd Black Belt
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SL-4 Video Clips
- Thread starter MJS
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That's outstanding! Has some of it been worked in to the curriculum?
kidswarrior
Senior Master
I second that! This small sample indicates to me a very comprehensive strategy underpinning SL4 Kenpo. Very interesting and impressive stuff. Thanks Doc, MLJ/Mike, and all involved in demonstrating and getting this onto MT. :asian:
Kembudo-Kai Kempoka
Senior Master
Doc
Senior Master
Thanks to all the posters for the kind remarks. The students and I appreciate it very much.
I spend significant time teaching all the intricacies of basics, and the importance of posture in application and body mechanics. Therefore, proper form is prevalent.
I will endeavor to get my oldest student on video soon. Lincoln Conti, at 67 and still going strong. Began Kenpo when he met Parker in 1964 and is a 1st generation on the family tree.
Thanks again all.
kidswarrior
Senior Master
DavidCC
Master of Arts
Not as much as I had hoped... but if you watch him you will see some signatures but not really teahcing it that way yet.
if you look at the classes I teach vs the others they all have their heels out much more consistently.
We have some techniques that have a downward strike (hammer or knife etc) that follow a front kick, and we have started teaching that so as to link the forward step-own of the kick with the strike - which is like "DUH" totally obvious NOW but which Doc really brought out for me.
in one or two of our kata there are actually places where we were taught to slap your own chest while striking. Well, now we know what the heck that is all about and have cleaned it up to be the shoulder - as Doc taught us to BAM.
Shaolin kempo is already a mish-mash of other material. So it's both easy and hard to integrate the things I'm learning from SL-4. Any little piece is easy, but getting it consistent is hard for a number of reasons, the biggest of which is because I only know the skinniest tip of the SL-4 iceberg. but also hard because SKK is such a mix-up, like de-tangling my daughter's hair, replacing one strand of hair with another.
One thing I do know for certain is that my performance of the SKK material is greatly improved by using the body mechanics Doc teaches. yeah I look different that most of the people I work out with but I know exactyy why I am doing the things I am doing which many of them cannot say. And the power I can deliver now on strikes is really nice, and it feel so much more under control... Also SKK does a lot of manipulations and just knowing that your stance is SO SOLID that you cannot be moved makes that class of technique much more accessible.
bakxierboxer
Yellow Belt
DavidCC
Master of Arts
OK, I'll "bite"!
What the heck IS it "all about"?
Pete
oh, man.... I hate to do this to you, but use the search function for BAM, PAM, Body Alignment Mechanism, SL-4, or any post by "Doc". or take the red pill and wake up in your own bed...
bakxierboxer
Yellow Belt
The question s/b who's doing what to whom?
You previously posted:
When I was learning Kajukenbo in the 60s with a number of Islanders, the gesture of slapping the shoulder meant pretty much the same as "the Italian Salute"... only farther.
Later on in the 60s and early 70s, some forms monkeys who couldn't make their gis crack used to slap their chests to create what they hoped were "acceptable" "sound efects".
Pete
DavidCC
Master of Arts
The question s/b who's doing what to whom?
You previously posted:
When I was learning Kajukenbo in the 60s with a number of Islanders, the gesture of slapping the shoulder meant pretty much the same as "the Italian Salute"... only farther.
Later on in the 60s and early 70s, some forms monkeys who couldn't make their gis crack used to slap their chests to create what they hoped were "acceptable" "sound efects".
Pete
you didn't get any of that from doing the searches I suggested LOL
bakxierboxer
Yellow Belt
?????
You tryin'ta tell me that you WEREN'T "joking"?
Cheeez! some folks'll "bite" at ANYTHING!
(haw!)
DavidCC
Master of Arts
?????
You tryin'ta tell me that you WEREN'T "joking"?
Cheeez! some folks'll "bite" at ANYTHING!
(haw!)
so, red pill for you then
Ray
Master Black Belt
Didn't "The Real Don Steele" from KHJ radio have a dance show on TV? Man, that seems like such a long time ago...was it channel 9, and was it the {TV station sister} of KHJ?I was out of the area in the Service from 71-75 when K-Earth first came on. But remember well the old AM's: KRLA, KFWB, and KHJ. But Doc, they weren't Oldies.
kidswarrior
Senior Master
kidswarrior
Senior Master
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