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Goju_boi
Black Belt
Joined: 28 Mar 2005
Posts: 2129
Location: Houston , Texas
Styles: Goju ryu , Kobudo , and just started Capoeira
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so did McDonald Sensei come up with it?
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syberghost
White Belt
Joined: 13 Sep 2005
Posts: 5
Location: Orlando, FL
Styles: American Kenpo, Goju-Shorin
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 6:35 am Post subject: |
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| Goju_boi wrote: |
| so did McDonald Sensei come up with it? |
That's what I said; Bill McDonald developed it.
I trained under one of his students, Mick Smith, briefly, and then lost contact with him before I ever learned anything about the history. There is precious little online about it, and to the best of my knowledge Sensei McDonald doesn't have a web page.
Now I'm learning Kenpo, and the similarities have peaked my curiosity as to the history of my old art. |
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Goju_boi
Black Belt
Joined: 28 Mar 2005
Posts: 2129
Location: Houston , Texas
Styles: Goju ryu , Kobudo , and just started Capoeira
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 7:40 am Post subject: |
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well I really can't say much about your old style,but kenpo is pretty cool.What style of kenpo is it?
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syberghost
White Belt
Joined: 13 Sep 2005
Posts: 5
Location: Orlando, FL
Styles: American Kenpo, Goju-Shorin
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 8:37 am Post subject: |
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| Goju_boi wrote: |
| well I really can't say much about your old style,but kenpo is pretty cool.What style of kenpo is it? |
I'm pretty new at it, so I don't know a lot yet. Our teacher is Mike Friedman, and his teachers have included Manny Reyes Sr. and Tony Young. The school web page is http://www.championkaratefl.com .
I don't want to throw around buzzwords like "Parker style vs. Tracy style" and sound like I know what I'm talking about when I don't, so I won't.
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P.A.L
Black Belt
Joined: 26 May 2004
Posts: 1182
Location: Texas
Styles: Shorin-ryu (Kobayashi)
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| Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 2:02 pm Post subject: |
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| mixture of naha-te and shuri-te is shito-ryu |
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Goju_boi
Black Belt
Joined: 28 Mar 2005
Posts: 2129
Location: Houston , Texas
Styles: Goju ryu , Kobudo , and just started Capoeira
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| Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 3:10 pm Post subject: |
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well syberghost if you look at your schools logo on the website you will see that it's american kenpo
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syberghost
White Belt
Joined: 13 Sep 2005
Posts: 5
Location: Orlando, FL
Styles: American Kenpo, Goju-Shorin
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Wow, how much has changed since I first posted this thread.
The history on my school is this:
It was first owned by Benn Cohen. When he went off to Hollywood, he sold it to Walter Somerville. Walter hired Mike Friedman as an instructor, and then later sold the school to him.
Walter's brother Tom still teaches Kenpo in the Orlando area, at Jeff Speakman's chain school.
As for Mike, his teacher was Manny Reyes Sr., who studied directly under Grandmaster Parker.
As the avatar shows, I'm now an orange belt, and working hard for my purple. I'm proud to say I met my goal of "orange before 40", albeit only barely due to six weeks out with a broken toe, which happened the night I got my yellow belt. |
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juey palancu
Orange Belt
Joined: 24 Dec 2005
Posts: 116
Location: Puerto Rico
Styles: Shotokan
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Man, even when there is a comparison between two styles distinct form shotokan, the shotokan-bashing doesnt stop.
Anyone who is advanced enoguh knows that the essence of all the three traditional karate lines is very similar and all the techinques convered in any one of them are covered in the other two as well, they are just learned in different order.
Tunnel vison: That's what kills the essence of traditional karate.
Ossu!
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donvieira
White Belt
Joined: 30 Jul 2006
Posts: 8
Location: stockton, CA
Styles: okinawan goju-ryu
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It's all about the instructor/orgin of the style. If you have ever seen Morio Higaonna (Okinawa Go Ju Ryu) or Toshiro Osgiro (Shorin-Ryu) move you would be mind boggled at how skilled they are. They are both TRUE Masters of the martial arts yet Shorin ryu is linear for a reason, Oshiro Sensei told me that it was developed to fight against the Japanese swordsman when Japan took over Okinawa and took all their weapons away. It's something that you cannot compare, they are both great arts as all arts but they have a purpose/reason they were developed the way they did. Good Luck, Don
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Goju_boi
Black Belt
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why is shorin ryu linear? I thought it was supposed to be an interpretation of Shaolin ? Shaolin is very circular compared to Karate.
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on the post.
