White Tiger Martial Arts Croydon

shirotoratiger.proboards.com/thread/1691/kenpo-concepts

Distance and Timing

1. Erect Posture

2. Good Balance

3. Relax

4. Speed

5. Accuracy

6. Angles

7. Body Alignment

8. Back Up Mass

9. Economy of Motion

10. Timing

11. Telegraphing

12. Coordination

13. Focus

14. Power

15. Torque

16. Body Momentum

17. Marriage of Gravity

18. Penetration

19. Transition

20. Distance

21. Cover

JKD Attributes

Proper development of the main 3 in the Combat model

Awareness

Sensitivity

Proper Mental Attitude

1. Awareness

To see the opponent's intentions

- Knife "sparring" - knife at largo range
- isolation sparring

2. Sensitivity

To feel the opponent's intentions

- Hubud, Chi Sao

3. Proper Mental Attitude

Calmness and Confidence
Killer Instinct

Progressive Sparring - 16 phases

shirotoratiger.proboards.com/thread/2027/progressive-sparring-stma

1. lead jab only
2. lead hand only
3. lead hand and kick only

4. lead hand and kick v boxing
5. lead hand and kick v kickboxing
6. lead hand and kick v kicks only

7. jab v cross

8. boxing both

9. boxing v kicks
10. boxing v box and lead kick
11. boxing v kickboxing
12. boxing v lead kick

13. boxing and lead kick both
14. boxing and lead kick v kicks
15. boxing and lead kick v kickboxing

16. kickboxing both

JKD in STMA Progression

shirotoratiger.proboards.com/thread/2019/jkd-stma

1. Entering

2. Stop Hits

3. Interception

4. Destructions - to close the gap safely

5. Straight Blast

6. HKE - Headbutts, Knees, Elbows

7. Trapping

8. Low line kicking

9. Eye jabs

10. Groin slaps

11. Boxing

12. Groundfighting

The 32 Jiu Jitsu Principles

shirotoratiger.proboards.com/thread/1769/advanced-jj-concepts-principles

The APEX Principles - Efficiency

TIMING and CONTROL

Principle 1: Connection

Principle 2: Detachment

Principle 3: Distance

Principle 4: Pyramid

Principle 5: Creation

Principle 6: Acceptance

Principle 7: Velocity

Principle 8: Clock

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STREET

The Multiple Opponent scenarios

- "Reacher" formula - take out the Leader, then deal with the Two man scenario

- head for the Leader, Sabaki to take down the Weakest - Evade then Escape or Two Man

KEMPO

sets that include directional and Multiple Opponent options

Kempo Multiple Opponent sets involve two attackers for the reasons written above - the skills and concepts learnt from the Sword and Spear sets now apply in Unarmed

As noted tonight - are you REALLY alone and unarmed against multiple attackers?

Do you have a weapon on you or can you improvise one?

Do you have partner with you as backup?

How did you end up in that situation - could Awareness and Avoidance have prevented it - why exactly are these people coming at you and how did they get you alone ??

In the Autumn Season we cover NINPO concepts in TAIHENJUTSU movement and application

DEMO of

Kama sickles

Manrikigusari chain

Sickle and chain

discussion of variations

Grappling hook - as climbing tool and weapon

Skipping rope - as training tool - and improvised self defence weapon

Grappling hook

Climb onto wall - modern application could be roof of a van - strike passing opponent with kick, sword, stick, throw down shuriken, metsubishi

Climb tree in "gymnastic bar" style - climb to second branch - throw down shuriken and metsubishi

All Members have done the module throwing the plastic shuriken at each others Gi so understand the application

DEM of use of flannel or shirt in Dojo as Metsubishi - the cloth hitting your partner's Gi represents the Metsubishi hitting the attacker's face

Against multiple opponents

- retreating to draw attackers closer

- roll and throw shuriken

- throw metsubushi and roll

NINPO

Metsubushi

- review of video clip so we can all see the powder being used in the examples shown

- these are not set techniques, they are examples to show the Concepts and the Movement that make the Concepts possible - the techniques for the Weapons you already know and are drilled in each Phase

- drill using cloth thrown against Swordsman

- example of multiple attackers - RETREATING stepping as ATTACK BY DRAWING - later used in JJ Standing Shoot drill

- against two swordsmen - throw powder high, strike low, move through

To Evade after the powder throw - step, jump or roll - Aruki, Tobi or Kaiten

Shuriken

As all Members have previously done the module where we throw the plastic/rubber dummy shuriken at each other everyone knows the Concept

- with a Spearman behind and a Swordsman in front we use SABAKI to Evade, the throw the blades and Escape

- this used Unarmed in the KENPO later

This ties in with the GOTONPO Escape and Evasions modules we have covered over the Season

DO Ton Jutsu - go down use the Earth

MOKU Ton Jutsu - climb the tree - this applies to the modern example of climbing a wall or onto a vehicle such as a van

use of a bush is a COMBO of the Earth and Wood concepts - as seen on GRASS days

KIN Ton Jutsu - use of tools - the Grappling hook, the Shuko claws, the Kunai and digging tools

SUI Ton Jutsu - use of water

KA To Jutsu - use of fire

The NINJA Method is to use Surprise, Deception and Distraction in the fight, and to Escape - which makes it more ideal for a Self Defence situation than the Samurai Methods of going into battle

NOTE - The Samurai Methods are needed with certain Professional applications - The Door, Security work in general, Police work and certainly in the Military

"He won't stand there while you hit him with multiple strikes"

This is sort of Off Topic as well as General as it has boxing clips but to make a specific point

We talked in Class about the Karate and Kempo drills - how people say "he won't just stand there while you hit him multiple times"

the Conjecture to that is Boxing KO replays where the fighter is stunned by the first hit, then stands there and receives multiple punches

sometimes there is an environmental factor such as the ropes - this equates to a Real fight, be it Street or in the bar/club - unless you are having a "Square go" match fight in an open field, there will be some environment

Tommy Morrison loss - 2 versions

www.youtube.com/shorts/bAuoiFREALo

www.youtube.com/shorts/fgtzQs82dgU

Frank Bruno losses - go to the end to see the multiple hit slo mo

Tim Witherspoon vs Frank Bruno - Highlights

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG9G3zN48g0

James Smith vs Frank Bruno - Highlights

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi3WbFZ56bM

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Tommy 'The Duke' Morrison's Highlight Reel

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp1cf6phm_I

so we can see that he was a great boxer - and there is some good stuff here

Shaolin Monk Temple "training" nonsense

As I always say about Japanese Budo:

we have the history of each Ryuha, we have the Densho, the scrolls, and we have the Menkyo certification system, the Sokes and the Shihans, and then we have the modern belt grading system, the Dans, the new Modern ranks, and the Traditional ranks

Other countries do not have the same concise system as Japan, they do not have exact ranks relating to their systems

The worst for this is Modern systems of Kung Fu which are supposed to be passed down from Traditional systems such as Wu Tang and Shaolin

Modern Kung fu systems that give coloured "Sashes" are meaningless - they are just marketing hype and a way to make money from Westerners paying for something that isn't real

Here's some facts:

Shaolin Temple was burned down 400 years ago

the Shaolin Temple is gone

then in 1983 China was opened up to Westerners

everybody kept going "hey where's the Shaolin Temple"

Chinese are replying "you know there's no Shaolin Temple they burn down 400 years ago"

then they reconstructed a replica in 1983 and they had towns folk dress as Shaolin monks for tourism

around 85 they started having actual kung-fu people portray the Shaolin monks

then Westerners kept coming in there going we want to learn from the Shaolin monks

so they started teaching these Western people

and these Chinese people are not connected to the Shaolin monks

saying you were taught by a Shaolin monk is the equivalent of saying I was taught by a knight of the round table

same time period

you know how ridiculous that would sound

these new people have nothing to do with the Shaolin monks that were destroyed long time ago

this was something that was resurrected later in the 80s

So yes, family systems of Kung Fu do exist and are passed down through the Generations, and they are genuine, and some teachers do open schools and teach Westerners

There are also plenty of schools that choose their members carefully and remain "underground"

which is essentially what STMA do

But there are no "SIFU" or "Teachers" who had Shaolin Kung Fu passed down to them from the original Monks that are teaching today - and the new replica of the Shaolin Temple is just that, a replica, and the Kung Fu you can learn there is not passed down from the Shaolin monks

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Regarding Wing Chun and Pak Mei they are examples of systems that were supposed to be passed down from "surviving masters" of the Shaolin Temple

Though they are both good systems, the Shaolin bit is nonsense

after all, why would each "Monk" have a system so different from each other - Pak Mei and Wing Chun would be almost identical if the two monks had trained at the Temple and escaped when it was torched

Even Lethwei and Muay Thai are similar - and they are from different neighbouring countries - consider that

Also the Yip Man idea that there are two different versions of Wing Chun and only he learnt both of them so you can only learn WC from him - ignore that

Same for his first gen students all claiming they are the "only one" who learnt the real complete system and are the new real "grandmaster"

Ego and money - as always