Welcome to White Tiger Kenpo

Kenpo karate is a unique mixed martial art or MMA that traces it's near history to the Pa lama settlement on Oahu, Hawaii. It is based on approximately 150 self defense patterns cataloged by the members of the Black Belt Society, whose members included William Chow who was Adriano Emperado (Kenpo) instructor, Walter Choo (Karate), Joe Holck (Judo), Frank Ordonez (Jujutsu), and George C. Chang. Ed Parker another of William Chow's student brought Kenpo to the U.S. in the 1950’s and established American Kenpo as his style. The Tracy Brothers who were Parker students established the Tracy Kenpo based on these same techniques. The true origins of these self defense patterns are unknown but many theories and legends abound.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

10 Principles of White Tiger Kenpo:

The last two Principles we are going to talk about are Spatial Summation and Transitional Flow.
Spatial Summation is a case of 2 + 2 = 5, due to the physiology of the human body the brain pain threshold is triggered and the body will feel more pain when hit with fast multiply strikes to different areas of the body, than a single hard strike to the body.
This is what every White Tiger Kenpo student should strive to be able to do and that is Transitional Flow. By this we mean that you can flow from one technique into next without stopping or using jerking action.
A sign of a good Kenpo stylist is when you cannot tell where one technique ends and another begins.
A good way to practice this is to learn and understand your Kenpo kata as these will teach you how to move from one technique to the next.

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