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 3, 2010

Twisting Talon ABCD

This technique is designed to teach out to get out of a wrist grab. AB variation is for a straight arm wrist grab and CD is for a cross arm wrist grab.

The key to making this technique is to attack the weakest point of the grip. When someone grabs you there are two weak points the first one is the shoulder, no matter how hard they try they cannot resist with the shoulder. The 2nd weak point is the thumb. In this technique we are going to learn how to attack the thumb to get out of the lock.

On the AB variation you are going to pull against the thumb by turning your arm thumb up then pull towards your chest. Make sure you do not pull towards the fingers only towards the thumb.

The C and D version you are going to roll the hand over so that you over and out from the thumb.

All 4 variations should be done smoothly without any jerking action. The hand grabs on all variations should NOT be USED to pull the hand away from the arm but to have their hand counter grabbed when your hand comes loose.

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