Please oh please, dear God... Do not try these Kenpo moves on the street. Use this video as a means of burning calories, strengthening your core and for breaking down lactic acid from the weight lifting the day prior.
For martial artists, use the intervals as times for using your own particular strikes and combinations. Such as substituting back kicks (lol) for spinning side kicks. Enjoy everyone.
If you want to know the real Kenpo, Google Ed Parker and you can get his or a few other true masters/teacher's dvd's. SOME do not care, some will seek out more on Kenpo. Just letting you know before you develop a muscle memory for wrong forms that will be VERY hard to undo. Best to all. (:
The Kenpo is incorrect, but Kenpo teaches you bad habits that don't work in real life anyway, like chambering your hand by your side instead of keeping it up by your chin and blocking leg kicks with your arm instead of lifting your leg and checking it. If he's going to spend the time pursuing the correct moves for muscle memory, he should learn a better form of fighting altogether.
mrstamos: cannot argue with you there. The forms of soft styles(Kung fu chuan faun etc)are WAY more fluid and suited to real life. The hard styles ALL(Kenpo, shotokan, shituryio, TKD etc)share some time consuming movements and physical geometry that makes one say 'HUH?!? as far as relating to reality. Hard style karate ignores the natural flow even though it is awesome art in the hands of a pro. TH warns about the dangers of 'locking out joints' in strikes. Circular soft styles win there also.
I don't know what Kenpo you have seen but in a good school they would never teach chambering your hand as a separate movement or blocking kicks with your arm. Make sure it is an Ed Parker American Kenpo school.
Any good fighter never chambers their hand in a fight anyway, they have it ready to protect either the head, or the abdomen. Also, standing sideways is a good way to minimize available surface area and maximize kicking efficiency for the lean and turn out.
As well, feet should be PLANTED when a punch connects(power from foundation magnified by hips and shoulders and then into focused strike)NOT a "step" but a connected 'shuffle'. Respect to T.H. but lets respect the real forms of Kenpo too. THIS is not it.
Should be called 'Sorta Kenpo'as the forms are often incorrect. Better than nothing but if you ever plan to take REAL Kenpo these incorrect forms will have you UNlearning a good deal. EX: On an upward/outward(or inward outward)block the blocking arm is to travel OUTSIDE of the retreating arm/fist. He does it correct on ONE side and incorrect on the other. Etc....
lol i'm gonna get this thing but i'm already a blackbelt so i'm sure that the kenpo X will be no problem for me... the 90 minutes of yoga though... ya that's a problem
Each vid is about 1 hour. Ab Ripper is every other day and it is an additional 15 minutes. Yoga is about 90 minutes. You can shed some time buy not doing some of the warmups/cooldown (especially on ab-ripper days) but that isn't recommended.
Please oh please, dear God... Do not try these Kenpo moves on the street. Use this video as a means of burning calories, strengthening your core and for breaking down lactic acid from the weight lifting the day prior.
For martial artists, use the intervals as times for using your own particular strikes and combinations. Such as substituting back kicks (lol) for spinning side kicks. Enjoy everyone.
d4will 9 months ago
thought I was going to hate it and it was my favorite so far....i could probably beat the shit out of a ninja
loopba 2 years ago
yep this is my 6th day but im lookin forward to doin kempo 2morrow. keep up the good work though. best of luck.
renejenmalaki 3 years ago
kempo it hardcore but not as fun as plyo is funner and huttter
reeb69doog 3 years ago
If you want to know the real Kenpo, Google Ed Parker and you can get his or a few other true masters/teacher's dvd's. SOME do not care, some will seek out more on Kenpo. Just letting you know before you develop a muscle memory for wrong forms that will be VERY hard to undo. Best to all. (:
shoegooguru 3 years ago
The Kenpo is incorrect, but Kenpo teaches you bad habits that don't work in real life anyway, like chambering your hand by your side instead of keeping it up by your chin and blocking leg kicks with your arm instead of lifting your leg and checking it. If he's going to spend the time pursuing the correct moves for muscle memory, he should learn a better form of fighting altogether.
mrstamos 3 years ago
mrstamos: cannot argue with you there. The forms of soft styles(Kung fu chuan faun etc)are WAY more fluid and suited to real life. The hard styles ALL(Kenpo, shotokan, shituryio, TKD etc)share some time consuming movements and physical geometry that makes one say 'HUH?!? as far as relating to reality. Hard style karate ignores the natural flow even though it is awesome art in the hands of a pro. TH warns about the dangers of 'locking out joints' in strikes. Circular soft styles win there also.
shoegooguru 3 years ago
I don't know what Kenpo you have seen but in a good school they would never teach chambering your hand as a separate movement or blocking kicks with your arm. Make sure it is an Ed Parker American Kenpo school.
drking518 3 years ago
Any good fighter never chambers their hand in a fight anyway, they have it ready to protect either the head, or the abdomen. Also, standing sideways is a good way to minimize available surface area and maximize kicking efficiency for the lean and turn out.
blackbelt1123 2 years ago
As well, feet should be PLANTED when a punch connects(power from foundation magnified by hips and shoulders and then into focused strike)NOT a "step" but a connected 'shuffle'. Respect to T.H. but lets respect the real forms of Kenpo too. THIS is not it.
shoegooguru 3 years ago
Should be called 'Sorta Kenpo'as the forms are often incorrect. Better than nothing but if you ever plan to take REAL Kenpo these incorrect forms will have you UNlearning a good deal. EX: On an upward/outward(or inward outward)block the blocking arm is to travel OUTSIDE of the retreating arm/fist. He does it correct on ONE side and incorrect on the other. Etc....
shoegooguru 3 years ago
tomm is my first workout withp90x..wish me luck
yaiknowscrewme 3 years ago
lol i'm gonna get this thing but i'm already a blackbelt so i'm sure that the kenpo X will be no problem for me... the 90 minutes of yoga though... ya that's a problem
squigglzzz59 3 years ago
How long are the videos?
rhcp1034 4 years ago
Each vid is about 1 hour. Ab Ripper is every other day and it is an additional 15 minutes. Yoga is about 90 minutes. You can shed some time buy not doing some of the warmups/cooldown (especially on ab-ripper days) but that isn't recommended.
P90Xtreme 4 years ago
Now that you have been introduced to some of the motions of stuff you are gonna love the moves of the rest of the art.
Mahalo and good journey
Joe
joestricklett 4 years ago