KEMPO Forms
Following on from what I have said and posted regarding Forms, and the fact that we have been practicing the techniques from Form 5 on the mats, some further explanation as we continue over the Season
This is the thread for KEMPO sets, started in 2012, and added to over the following two years:
shirotoratiger.proboards.com/thread/793/kempos-sets
As you can see, the first post is for the 10 KF Kihon Fundamentals and the 10 MK Master Key techniques
We had been practicing Kempo all of 2011, and gone into depth on some Grass courses - this was the start of 2012 and the first time I had published a list
as we have established, there is a lot to cover in any of our source arts, so I had to decide what to start with and how much from each available system, for Kempo being these two sets, a total of 20 techniques
Over the next couple of years, as can be see I added more sets and gave them numbers - these are the sets from each belt level that do not appear in the Forms, and that seemed the best way to list them for our purposes and then practice - over the next decade we covered all of these many times, with their variations, over many sessions
This is the thread for KEMPO Forms, published early 2014 to coincide with the lists for the sets - I had these notes for a long time and we had spent the last two years establishing them in our practice
shirotoratiger.proboards.com/thread/1187/kempo-forms
I added the double knife apps for Form 8 summer 2015, as we didn't really get into those until then, with the transfer between Caterham and Sanderstead halls - as we do not do double knife drills in our Kali practice the way we do double stick, this was the first time to learn applications for them
As can be seen when scrolling down, all techniques that makeup a Form are listed
In regards to Form 5, there are ten techniques, just as there are for the KF and MK, and we learn and practice them the same way, a set to apply on the left and right side - the difference with the list for a Form is that you can practice them as a solo/shadow/air/kata first left then right in that order
And that is ALL a form or kata is - a method of practicing a list of techniques
The method we use for separating the "belt" levels 3O, 4P, etc to give us a list of sets away from the form list sets, is something unique to STMA - we are not saying nobody else does it, we just don't know that they do, and we did not "get it" from anyone else
Similarly our KEMPO JUJUTSU uses the Kempo sets for our Atemi, again, from Koryo Jujutsu through to JUDO and AIKIDO there are Atemi, same as there are in the NINPO gata, they just aren't passed on the same way, apart from in Goshin Kata, so the use of Kempo makes the "blow before throw" aspect more functional
And again, we develop the Form 7 and 8 with the KALI Sinawalli and Double Dagas respectively
The traps in Wing Chun, as well as sensitivity and contact reflex, are the checks in Kempo
Again, not saying other schools do not do this, and to any particular level, it would depend on how much Kempo, Jujutsu, Kali and Wing Chun they have and use in their system, to what level they know it, and to what level they practice it
This is what makes STMA approach to KEMPO uniquely ours - truly WHITE TIGER KENPO KARATE
