When I began boxing and later Jeet Kune Do, you’d often hear people talk about “throwing a fake” or “just feint a movement”… and to me the terms seemed to be used interchangeably and to mean the same thing. Only years later, ...
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During my Chinese Boxing and Kempo Karate classes we often discuss different topics, and the other day we spoke about awareness. The discussion started as a discussion on the “fighting measure” in Chinese Boxing (more specifically in Jeet Kune Do). The ‘fighting measure’ is the ...
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While there are many systems using Kempo and the alternate Kenpo spelling, there seems to be some misconceptions in regards to the term Kenpo vs. Kempo as it pertains to systems with a lineage to the Hawaiian Karate / Self-Defense traditions; e.g. ...
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“Training the Straight Lead Punch” is an article that was originally published in the August 1998 issue of “Bruce Lee Magazine”, and was written by my teachers Sifu Tim Tackett and the late Sifu Bob Bremer. The straight lead punch is a “bread ...
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A short note on the meaning of the word “Karate”. There’s this pervading thought that the word Karate being a homonym… a word that’s spelled the same but means two different things. Karate is spelled with two letters, Kara (空 or 唐) ...
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