Talk:American Kenpo
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American Kenpo is a system of Martial Arts.
The founder of the American Kenpo system is Edmund K. Parker. He is also credited for the founding of the EPAK system which are the first letters of his name and American Kenpo. He learned his Martial Arts from an Instructor in the Hawaiian Islands. His name was William Chow. Professor Chow was the main force regarding the the Kenpo that was to be known as American Kenpo.
Professor Chow never called his art "American Kenpo", his art later came to be known as Kara-Ho Kempo[1]. (with an 'M') The current Grandmaster of Karaho is Sam Alama Kuoha. Kara-Ho Kempo is markedly different from Ed Parker's American Kenpo Karate (also known as EPAK). EPAK is largely the brainchild of Ed Parker and resembles little of what Profesor Chow taught.
[edit] polynesians aren't Chinese
"some Chinese instructors were “secretive” about their methodologies, and rarely taught non-Chinese. As a native Polynesian, however, Parker was embraced by many of the available Chinese Masters" This bit doesn't really make much sense. Polynesians aren't Chinese. Maybe we should say that they rarely taught non-Asians?
[edit] NPOV and style
Needs some work to be NPOV. The "motion" references are all straight from SL4 terminology, and could be considered to be somewhat biased, however true they may be. The excessive use of quote marks (common to much Kenpo writing) need toning down, and the prose needs loosening up a little and making accessible to non-Kenpo people.
--82.33.53.68 27 September 2005 (UTC)
I've done a little to make it less biased. Still needs extensive cites, particularly for the criticism of "motion kenpo".
--82.33.53.68 27 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Belts
http://kenpo-texas.com/beltrankingsys.html there is no red belt
http://www.depalmaskarate.com/index.cfm?page=12 It varies by school. And sign your comments please. --WildKard84 04:03, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
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- Ed Parker's belts were the ones listed above. Do not take the belts out. BJJ has belt rankings. Kenpo will too. - HorrorFiend138
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- Perhaps we should adopt the approach Kevin Kuliga used in his article on this subject for the Chinese Karate Federation. He described the system Grandmaster Parker used, and then mentioned briefly the reasons why some schools use different belt colors for the degrees of brown belt. We could accomplish this with the addition of a single sentence or two to the existing description. We owe it to Wikipedia readers to be more complete on this subject, in my opinion. - Syberghost 13:43, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
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