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SPEED To understand Kenpo techniques and how they function, you must have knowledge of physics. It is the study of our body and how our senses, through the use of mathematical laws, theories, concepts and principles of mass, speed, body alignment, angles...

POWER IN A PUNCH While in a training horse stance, facing 12 o'clock, execute a right horizontal thrust punch. Then execute a left horizontal thrust punch as your right hand returns to your right hip (fist clenched, palm up). The following is a partial...

COORDINATION SET 1 by Ed Parker OPENING: ATTENTION STANCE. BOW. DROP INTO A MEDITATING HORSE STANCE. SET 1: 1. Have your right foot drop back toward 6 o'clock into a left neutral bow, facing 12 o'clock, as you execute a left vertical outward block...

ATTACKING AND DEFENDING FROM THE GROUND Fighting from the ground -- learn to fall also. Techniques that you can use when you are on the ground. ”DIVERSIFIED USE OF PRINCIPLES" As we learn to use principles of the past and apply it to the present...

MY EXPERIENCES WITH GARY COOPER by Ed Parker Joe Hyams is another good friend who has been instrumental in my success in Hollywood. Through him, I was able to meet and perform for the late Gary Cooper. Joe had arranged for me to put on a Kenpo demonstration...

Mike Tyson's comment on one of his opponents statement that he had a "plan" for the fight. Tyson replied: "everyone has a plan until I smack them in the mouth" Professor Bob White gave me that quote some time ago and I was recently...

MY EXPERIENCES WITH JAMES MITOSE BY ED PARKER Contrary to some of the claims that have been made in publications, I was never a student of James M. Mitose. I observed his class in Honolulu in the mid forties, but I was not convinced about the effectiveness...

BLOCKING SET #1 (AKA STAR BLOCK) By Ed Parker Sr. (BOTH SIDES) A. Contains: Sequence of blocks that are as follows: (up, in, extended outward, down, re-cock, pushdown) 1. Right upward block for a left overhead club attack or chop. 2. Right inward block...