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.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Circling Thorn

This is your first introduction into defending against the knife. This technique as well as all your techniques will require practice and timing.

The first move should be done as one smooth motion, not pinning the hand as much as check the hand so that you can move with it as you do not want to stop the motion as he is drawing back you want to go with it so that you can continue your motion of stepping forward then back to 12:00 and driving the knife back into your opponent.

The key to making this technique work to make sure you do the technique in one smooth motion, use the opponents motion of pulling the knife back to follow through with the technique.

When dealing with a knife take note of the type of blade or knife the opponent has, is it a double edge knife or single? How is he holding the knife? The last thing is be prepared to get cut chances are you are not going to come out of the fight unharmed.

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